When I first heard Burial I was astonished.
I barely consider his stuff dubstep anyway, but when I heard it I wondered when 'urban' music had got so clever. Ghostly samples, intricate, cleverly programmed beats and heartbreaking melodies. All that from a garage & grime background. Incredible.

It's like Mogwai- a bunch of Glaswegian teenagers when they did Helicon 1 & 2, brought out Come On Die Young when they were very early twenties- incredible depth in the music and breadth of influences.

At the time I was describing Burial's Untrue as 'CODY era Mogwai, as remixed in the rain by Go Plastic era Squarepusher, in a cave'.

Sums it up nicely.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:44, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Just had a quick run through rated stuff on iTunes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbJ-1g5dyVM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2YEVZZOWLY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zO7H2yGvrU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPb1w7s7iUQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=heX7gXWk0FA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ZJhMfOpMA
All quite commercial I think but I love each one for individual reasons.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:46, Reply)

You must have heard 'Night' by Benga & Coki, right?
I heart that track. The way the melody and the sub interact is wonderful.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:49, Reply)

I've no idea but listening now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=haAxsi9MKWA
Hahah ok yeah I already like it.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:53, Reply)

It's great.
Totally infectious.

See what I mean about how the rhythm reflects the melody when it breaks and reforms?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 19:56, Reply)

Kinda, it feels like it's old though.
I dunno, that may well be pretentious, but whatever I've been listening to for the past year somehow sounds more "modern".
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:06, Reply)

It's a couple of years old now. Maybe more.
Seminal record.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:08, Reply)

I have "Untrue" and the eponymous album coming down the streams now.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:14, Reply)

They are both excellent, but Untrue is better.
Untrue's work with vocal samples is very very clever.

interviews:

www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/oct/26/urban

www.thewire.co.uk/articles/347/

Mourning a movement he never directly experienced. Weird but touching.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 20:22, Reply)