Burial - Rival Dealer

i'm so happy i love autechre and just like burial

  On 12/12/2013 at 12:52 AM, xxx said:

The lack of Impakt in this thread is troubling. I need to know where he stands. Or maybe his silence is statement in itself.

Haha, I like some parts and I think other parts are shit(double tempo think tambs out of tempo etc). But it sure as hell is entertaining :)

  On 12/11/2013 at 11:22 PM, thief said:

it's fun to me. i don't know why people would get upset over this

It probably is the most 'fun' of any Burial release yet. On the one hand it's more overwrought and cheaply sentimental than ever, but then things like the "you know my motherfucking style" in Rival Dealer, Hiders' beat (those toms!), or the scratching in Come Down To Us are all very deliberate lighthearted touches that may be the saving grace of this EP.

I see Burial as being as life-affirming as the sun in the sky and so when people don't like it I'm like "aww man" because it just makes perfect sense to me.

way too many voice samples on this one. so far it sounds brave but not as deep as his other records. little bit surface maybe. but am going to reserve judgement for a good few listens.

he's exploring early 90s dance music.

but remember guys this existing doesn't take away his other music

  On 12/12/2013 at 1:55 AM, Jimmy McMessageboard said:

 

but remember guys this existing doesn't take away his other music

lol

not that it's a big deal to me or anything but if anyone says any other mean things about this album i will kill myself

  On 12/12/2013 at 2:03 AM, LimpyLoo said:

not that it's a big deal to me or anything but if anyone says any other mean things about this album i will kill myself

BoC subforum is that way ----->

you little whiny bitch

early 90s dance music? more like late 00's bubblegum pop

People who complained about Weakling Paradinas will probably complain about this EP.

  On 12/12/2013 at 2:05 AM, Indicator said:

 

  On 12/12/2013 at 2:03 AM, LimpyLoo said:

not that it's a big deal to me or anything but if anyone says any other mean things about this album i will kill myself

 

BoC subforum is that way ----->

 

you little whiny bitch

 

you are a poop-toucher imo

I like to make fun of fanboiz

  On 12/12/2013 at 2:07 AM, LimpyLoo said:

 

  On 12/12/2013 at 2:05 AM, Indicator said:

 

  On 12/12/2013 at 2:03 AM, LimpyLoo said:

not that it's a big deal to me or anything but if anyone says any other mean things about this album i will kill myself

 

BoC subforum is that way ----->

 

you little whiny bitch

 

 

you are a poop-toucher imo

 

touch

the light surrounding poo

be strong

you stay

best Burial ep ever

holy fucking lol

  On 12/12/2013 at 2:13 AM, baph said:

 

  On 12/12/2013 at 2:07 AM, LimpyLoo said:

 

  On 12/12/2013 at 2:05 AM, Indicator said:

 

  On 12/12/2013 at 2:03 AM, LimpyLoo said:

not that it's a big deal to me or anything but if anyone says any other mean things about this album i will kill myself

 

BoC subforum is that way ----->

 

you little whiny bitch

 

 

you are a poop-toucher imo

 

 

touch

the light surrounding poo

be strong

you stay

 

lol

edit: you just fucked up my favourite moment on that EP forever cos that's all I'm gonna hear now. thanks a lot, MAYNE.

  On 12/11/2013 at 8:50 PM, manmower said:

 

  On 12/11/2013 at 8:46 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

as always i'm impressed with Wattm's collective prescience

 

thanks guys

  On 12/11/2013 at 1:12 AM, Candiru said:

 

  On 12/11/2013 at 12:53 AM, LimpyLoo said:

If I were a girl, do you guys think I'd be Burial's type?

You are Burial's type... heheheheheheheeheheh heh

 

 

 

 

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I'm Burial

 

 

Confirmed, Candiru is Burial.

 

yeah I've always been pretty open about it

  On 12/12/2013 at 2:03 AM, LimpyLoo said:

not that it's a big deal to me or anything but if anyone says any other mean things about this album i will kill myself

This is the worst Burial release yet

This Burial EP sucks

I want to cancel my pre-order but I'm too lazy to log into Bleep

Remember he got bored of being unknown and doing the anonymous act. Maybe he got bored of just being cool quiet dude who puts out some chill dub beat music fuckington and was like man let's change this up like a transgender changin up. And he did. This time he's going for big loud smunky melodies from santa's boots the night after christmas. It's like a rice candy cane. Mint. Neutral. Ace. And now he's getting some publicity and discussion of the masses going on in the urban surroundings. People are unwrapping their presents early and he's lovin it. It's like a rush to get some hate and love fueled onion bhaji without the spincter burn. He's enjoying the ride. We're enjoying the ride. Happy Birthday Bachman Hard Pretzels and Happy Birthday John Kerry you big ol fuckbag you ;)

  On 12/12/2013 at 2:07 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

early 90s dance music? more like late 00's bubblegum pop

  On 12/12/2013 at 12:39 AM, MisterE said:

the production is slick, even if usually pretty minimal. i could maybe like it if there was more going on and the cliche vocal samples (that don't sound TOO far removed from 'eurotrash' 90s dance hit samples) weren't always there. if something is going to trigger an emotional response with me, it has to be through the music which has to have some kind of depth. cheesy samples alone won't do it.

 

reminds me of the intro/bridges to linkin park tracks, that are supposed to make me feel emotional somehow, just because they got a piano playing a minor key

late 90s all the way - we've gone from night bus and post-rave mcdonalds to staying up late playing ps1 and listening to epic cheesy dance mixes: as I said earlier this makes me think of the overly uptempo pop you'd hear on anime soundtracks or on boy band/girl group dance singles

there is something very different about this - its too early for me to compare it to anything else - something about it is missing and something else resonate differently; lack of subtlety perhaps? perhaps even Burial himself is going into uncomfortable territory?

I always forget if I've wax poetic about how my living in the UK for a couple years as a teen (13-15) has made his output seem oddly familiar, and Rival Dealer harkens a lot of the crappy and godawful music all of my friends and peers listened to: nu-metal like linkin park, limp bizkit, korn, aggro-rap like eminem and dmx, various forms of late 90s pop cheese: pop-punk, pop super groups like S Club 7, etc. I lived on a air base where hardly anyone ventured beyond the top40 CDs sold at the BX. I didn't listen to music much then, but when in retrospect I remember how excited I'd get hearing snippets of UK garage, big beat, various dnb and house filtered through VGM and adverts. That's the stuff Burial always seemed to connect me back to. Now he's tapping into the stuff I want to forget I listened to. It's very unabashed in a way that honestly makes me a bit uneasy (especially on "Come Down To Us") because it's like begging me to not cringe and give in to enjoying it flat-out.

And I must stress - I still think whatever his motives are, they are still more sincere and honest than the majority of "indie" and "underground" music that's heavy on retro aesthetics...most (not all) of that seems driven by trends, irony, and seeking taste-marker approval. I still feel that he doesn't take present-day hype and critical trends in consideration or is knee-deep with other scenesters, the same way that OPN and Machinedrum probably find themselves surrounded by.

/end rant

Sorrz brahs but this is where I cash out my chips on Burial. Don't get it. Never got it. Came modestly close with Kindred but no dice. Everything I've heard by him - even the stuff people would describe as "departures" (read: no woodblock) - feels incredibly formulaic and is devoid of anything that might compel repeated listens.

  On 12/12/2013 at 3:54 AM, DorkingtonPugsly said:

he's lovin it.

lol

Sounds better in the dark imo

  On 12/12/2013 at 5:14 AM, rddm said:

Sounds better in the dark imo

what doesn't?

  On 12/12/2013 at 3:22 AM, Zeffolia said:

 

  On 12/12/2013 at 2:03 AM, LimpyLoo said:

not that it's a big deal to me or anything but if anyone says any other mean things about this album i will kill myself

This is the worst Burial release yet

This Burial EP sucks

I want to cancel my pre-order but I'm too lazy to log into Bleep

 

+100

this is terrible music but as much as I appreciate his earlier stuff, I just dont liste, or care about burial, ive moved on. Untrue,AT THE TIME, was great, not anymore, dont know why, but it bores me to death

  On 12/12/2013 at 5:25 AM, murphythecat8 said:

Untrue,AT THE TIME, was great, not anymore, dont know why, but it bores me to death

I actually agree that it hasn't aged super well. I still think it's beautiful music and an amazing example of something coming from a place of pure mood and honest artistic intent, unhindered by academic discussions of skill and style and all that ultimately-irrelevant bullshit. but now, in the 2010s, it seems like the production is pretty standard after having been picked up on by so many others.

also I never really agreed with The Wire (? or was it Pfork?) calling it the best album of the 2000s. that's just fuckin' lazy, and driven by music journos' desire to latch onto something that perfectly straddles the line between underground and mysterious yet accessible and emotive.

still, an great rekkid imo. you can't fault it for becoming so celebrated that it loses a bit of its mystique, that's not Buriyel's fault.

i'm hearing references to the massive attack colab big-time