Burial - Antidawn EP

it's Christmas time

https://bleep.com/release/257791-burial-antidawn-ep

https://boomkat.com/products/antidawn-ep

12" + CD, out January 06. no music up yet. i ain't even like Burial really but figured i'd post for all y'all nerds 

oh and a new pic at https://thequietus.com/articles/30963-burial-new-ep-details-antidawn

  Quote

"Antidawn reduces Burial's music to just the vapours. The record explores an interzone between dislocated, patchwork songwriting and eerie, open-world, game space ambience.

"In the resulting no man's land, lyrics take precedence over song, lonely phrases colour the haze, a stark and fragmented structure makes time slow down. Antidawn seems to tell a story of a wintertime city, and something beckoning you to follow it into the night."

And the award for the most pretentious album description goes to…

jk, I’ll check this out 

  On 12/14/2021 at 1:17 PM, auxien said:

Antidawn reduces Burial's music to just the vapours.

yo dawg, I heard you like yo music reduced to just vapours so I made vapours out of what was already vapours. hope u enjoy dawg.

Bah. Don't you all just know how this is going to sound? Poor attempt of ambient soundscapes with echoes, crackles and distant chimpmunk samples?

I'm excited! Wtf on him not getting it out in time for Xmas though!

Hope it actually drops few weeks early on Xmas eve! Though either way not a long wait I guess so can't grumble 

Btw anyone know if track lengths been disclosed for this? Hoping it will work out pretty much full length duration with some nice long tracks on it

Instead of Christmas this year, we get to celebrate the Capitol riot with Burial 

from the boomskis:

Burial with his most substantial release in years, over 40 minutes of fizzing seasonal crackle and ultimate wooze.

Practically album length by other standards, the 'Antidawn EP’ plays thru five parts in 44 mins, unravelling a sequence of signature, crackling samples and vaporised soul strokes that play deep into his soundtrack-like collage style. It’s a real one for midwinter consumption, with the capacity for a sort of introspective romance that holds its own without explanation. Ye ye anyone hoping for another Untrue will have to go whistle but, for the diehards, it’s another surefire salve for frayed nerves and burned out heads.

Nose to tail it’s proper central heating for the soul, convecting a palette of pop and film dialogue snippets weft with ephemeral organ vamps and dabs of ‘80s/’90s synths that hazily throw back to frosted lens vibes that were canon to a generation who’ve perhaps slipped into older age by this point, some 16 years since Burial first struck a nerve. ID hounds will have a field day attempting to unpick its constituent parts, but suffice it to say, it’s predictably evocative gear that feels like an extended tease;  you’ll just have to listen till the end to see if those woodblock drums ever make an appearance, we ain’t sayin.

44 mins nice! 

44 minutes of foreplay by the sounds of it. No climax?

44 minutes of sex in the city reboot

  On 12/14/2021 at 1:17 PM, auxien said:

it's Christmas time

  Quote

Release date: 06 January 2022

What do you mean?

just an announcement from Santa Burial is a Christmas miracle  

  On 12/14/2021 at 3:42 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

44 minutes of sex in the city reboot

  On 12/14/2021 at 3:38 PM, Soloman Tump said:

44 minutes of foreplay by the sounds of it. No climax?

Burial can edge me all he wants  

44min EP lol, seems like he took a page out of autechre's book

also tfw Kindred is almost 10 years old

anyway, i'm getting the 12", no question

lol £10.99 for an EP on CD in a card slipcase.

Pls let it be good this time 

Kind of annoyed about the release date. Why can't this be a Christmas release? Burial has effectively broken the xmas tradition.

  On 12/14/2021 at 6:48 PM, fumi said:

Kind of annoyed about the release date. Why can't this be a Christmas release? Burial has effectively broken the xmas tradition.

Covid / RSD / Brexit delays, take your pick.

  On 12/14/2021 at 8:10 PM, Soloman Tump said:

 

Covid / RSD / Brexit delays, take your pick.

Let's hope there is a last minute surprise with some digitals. I cannot roast chestnuts around an open fire without some new Burial.

  On 12/14/2021 at 8:16 PM, fumi said:

Let's hope there is a last minute surprise with some digitals. I cannot roast chestnuts around an open fire without some new Burial.

bleep has mp3/wav/flac options on the release page. 

  On 12/14/2021 at 8:19 PM, ignatius said:

bleep has mp3/wav/flac options on the release page. 

But not available to purchase until the 6th.

  On 12/14/2021 at 8:19 PM, ignatius said:

bleep has mp3/wav/flac options on the release page. 

Maybe he'll move the Bandcamp page forward a little. 

(Merged thread)

mega dupe