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June 04, 2006

"...truly modern urban blues..."

Listening to Burial's new self-titled album (on Hyperdub) reminds me what it's like to get excited listening to something so mind-bendingly new...it reminds me of when I first heard The Orb's "UFOrb" on my headphones in the dark of my freshman-year dorm and just being like...crap. Whoa.

As described on Hyperdub's site:

"...Burial carves out a sound which sends the dormant slinky syncopations of uk garage, via radio interference, into a padded cell of cushioned, muffled bass, passing through the best of Pole’s Berlin crackle dub..."

And it is true. Each track brings you to a lonely, damp train station where rats scurry, drizzle falls, and your train never arrives. I can only sum up the sounds as slivers of complexity, simplistic in their insidiousness..., meandering, lost, unfinished, never peaking, terrible...yet perfect. It scares me how good this is. Crap...whoa.

And more:

"...Apparently put together entirely without sequencers and just using the wave editor software Sound Forge it is the missing link between early dubstep and late era garage and the new futuristic half speed dubstep of labels/production crews like DMZ. It is records like this that remind me of the radical potential of simplicity and making the most of minimal technology..."

Some more links:
- Kode9
- Burial on Pitchfork
- The Breezeblock (where I first heard "U Hurt Me")

Clampants | June 4, 2006 09:35 AM