i listened to this album on repeat yesterday while r and i cleaned the apartment. i was curious what she would think about it — she and i don’t share much when it comes to music, but we can usually agree over dn’b and dark uk rap (see: nasty bonanza). the burial album sounds like everything and nothing i have every heard. i can’t decide if i love it or don’t — and i suspect that it is for exactly the reasons described in this interview with burial.

the album is nostalgia for the rave scene, seen through a rainy day window, ten years later. the echoes, the reverb, the layered sounds — its an ambient album played while your downstairs neighbor is playing that first garage mix that blew your mind.

burial describes it as:

Something warm, glowing, junglist and garagey. I was listening to these Guy Called Gerald tunes. I wanted to do vocals but I can’t get a proper singer like him. So I cut up acapellas and made different sentences, even if they didn’t make sense but they summed up what I was feeling. I love those Foul Play and Omni Trio tunes where it was just the girl next door singing…I love UK garage, I love 2-step and Todd Edwards. For a long time I felt that no-one liked it, some music people cussed it because they’re stupid, but its music for real people, those tunes still sound better than most stuff when you’re out…I wanted to make a half euphoric record.

whether i end up loving it or not, it has, in a few days, taken my vote for album of the year. that’s pretty amazing, but i can’t recall being as impressed with a single piece of work in quite some time.

it might not be your thing, but itunes has it for sale — burial – ‘untrue’. if you want to hear a bit more, check hype machine — here is a remix of the second (and perhaps my favorite) track archangel (boy 8-bits simple remix)

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