Comments on: BURIAL – Untrue

By: Shiffi Le Soy

Shiffi Le Soy — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:46:18 +0000

I’ve seen the light now. And it burns like heaven.

By: byebyepride

byebyepride — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:31:56 +0000

I think it’s fair to say that Burial is squarely in the ‘soundtracks for imaginary films’ camp of making square pegs for square holes. Which isn’t to say it’s not a great peg, and better than Here We Go To Sublime, which does a similar thing but for a totally different aesthetic, and not quite as well.

By: Lex

Lex — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:43:24 +0000

“Surely a lot of Burial’s critical success is based on how his music makes people grab for words?”

YES. YES. seriously!

have written a bit about this on lj but srsly this album is not half as good as most dubstep! (though lots better than the first album which was REALLY boring in places.)

By: stevem

stevem — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:34:30 +0000

I actually bought this on Bleep last night, just based on hearing ‘Archangel’ and ‘Raver’ which are both superb although re the former I’m a bit disappointed that several other tracks seem to have been constructed using the same compelling formula. Interesting tho because the tracks are quite short – he could’ve made three or four much longer/epic pieces combining and weaving together some of these pieces but seems to have opted for a relatively more accessible approach. I didn’t get the fuss about the first album but this one has several moments that instantly clicked and may prompt me to give it another chance.

By: Lex

Lex — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:55:05 +0000

I actually bought this in a shop yesterday – it was the LAST COPY LEFT in Piccadilly Virgin! I may get round to listening to it tonight, maybe at 5am.

By: henry s

henry s — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:14:43 +0000

I find Burial’s stuff perfect for soundtracking those nocturnal moments listed above, but unusable the rest of the day…(similarly, I find that Galaxie 500 only has any real use-value in the dead of winter)…

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:42:46 +0000

Me on the first one (and I note that I hoped there wouldn’t be a second album hem hem).

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:38:35 +0000

Hmm, I think I need to hear the first record (I was planning to anyway) – I can see what you’re saying but I don’t hear much menace, however subdued, in the music – EVERYTHING’s so muffled and numbed that it all sounds quite contented to me. Mind you I am in a spectacularly good mood at the moment so picking up on negative nuance is probably beyond me.

By: Marcello Carlin

Marcello Carlin — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:21:53 +0000

I wouldn’t necessarily agree with that. For me Burial’s music conjures up a more disturbing world of nocturnal (dis)quiet; possibly (and only very lightly) the sort you feel when sitting outside the Cross Kings at 2:30 on Sunday morning waiting half an hour for the 390 bus to tootle along – it is “quiet” and the sketchy populace go about their business but there is that grey blunted sword of “something might happen any second”; the corrugated fences across the way, the last revellers straggling around the corner trying to establish exactly where King’s Cross is, and the knowledge that something nasty, brutal and short is probably going on, unseen, 500 yards away. Then again the music on the first album was “less” explicable in that sense (apart from the concept of the drowned city) whereas with the new one he perhaps explains a little which maybe was better unexplained.