Burial - Chemz

It's that time of year. This just showed up on Japanese website Ototoy.

https://ototoy.jp/_/default/p/650204

It just wouldn't be Christmas otherwise. 

Hell yeah, this is great news

Photoshop of Burial wearing a Christmas sweater when?

Hopefully more in the vein of untrue or self titled album

12:31 hmm so it's gonna be like 4 tracks put together including crackle interludes (or transvestites, whatever) 

lazy vocal sampling tho

not gonna complain about a burial xmas release. can’t wait to hear.  

can't he just make an LP? 

No, but in another ten years we'll get a nice compilation of 12" tracks that will make all the previous purchases a bit redundant. 

The physical with the other track is out in April?

April?

  On 12/21/2020 at 1:27 AM, jules said:

The physical with the other track is out in April?

 

April?

 

 

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Late February 

odd to not just release both tracks. get the impression dolphinz doesn’t even exist yet. 

Always down for new Burial. He's definitely divisive around these parts but I appreciate him. Seems almost impossible to live up to his Untrue days but it's hard to judge when he hasn't had a formal LP.

Not complaining, I do love these December releases and I've come to associate his tunes with the xmas season. Excited to hear this. Rough Sleeper is his best track and I'll die on that hill every day of the week.

Yes!!..very much enjoyed on 1st listen.. wtf on wait for 2nd track though!? But like someone says above maybe its not even finished yet! And oh well at least confirmed new burial track for 2021

Do get the impression he likes just prick teasing & drip feeding odd bits and bobs, wonder if he is really is done with the album format 

It's ok. Nice energy and flow. I like the fist pumping synths between 5 and 6 mins. Sound like early rave era or something. Kinda annoying vocals. I wish mr Bevan could have the guts to make a four track pure rave ep instead of the usual bits and pieces with crackle in between. Not going to do the same old mistake and put on his early works right after this.

I love the albums and Tunes 2011-2019, and the Massive Attack remixes are fantastic, but Chemz rubs me the wrong way.

It's all over the place but i fucking love it

  On 12/20/2020 at 9:04 PM, xox said:

can't he just make an LP? 

Somewhere i get that he seems too have an aversion to releasing albums. Untrue was hyped up so incredibly much it had almost reached God like status to some. By releasing an album he would have to live up to so many unrealistic and through the roof expectations that it would certainly dissapoint a lot of people even if the album was great. By releasing singles and comps he can still put out great tunes every now and then and the bar is less unreachably high. No one expects God like tracks from singles so there is less pressure for him go put out something that blows out everyones brains. Just be glad he's still active.

It just sounds like he doesn't have enough ideas to fill up an album. Sadly for Burial he's created such an iconic sound for himself that if he attempted to do anything different he would immediately be shit on by his fans.

well, i were him, i'd either release an album with the same but updated shit and test the audience with radically different music released as singles //or vice versa 

imo this is the worst! very lethargic! you have the crowd that loves your music but you're so shit up with the possibility of losing few of them so you'd rather play hide&seek with them.  

I guess he has lost most of his early fans already. I believe rateyourmusic reviews/ratings could give a hint on popularity/hype. The most popular EP, Kindered had 84 reviews, and almost 7000 ratings. Last years Claustro have 4 reviews and 1100 ratings. I would guess that a new album would build some hype/pressure and a sort of comeback vibe. Untrue was a good album, but the bar isn't really that high. Think about Syro, or everytime BOC returns.  

This sounds like a pirate radio mix, recorded in 1992.

I guess that is the point.  If he wants to keep on releasing 12" rather than albums then that is fine by me.

  On 12/21/2020 at 11:15 AM, scumtron said:

I guess he has lost most of his early fans already. I believe rateyourmusic reviews/ratings could give a hint on popularity/hype. The most popular EP, Kindered had 84 reviews, and almost 7000 ratings. Last years Claustro have 4 reviews and 1100 ratings.

Maybe it's because of rateyourmusic's crash in popularity. Burial still has 700/800.000+ listeners per month in spotify