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Before listening to this album, there was a huge shortcoming I noticed: what the fuck were Hyperdub thinking when they put this thing together?! The tracks go backward in time rather than forward and worst of all, they put all the ambient tracks, his least interesting works, on the very front of this compilation. The pacing of this already two-and-a-half hour project is already godawful because the first 38 minutes are packed with these and it would've been waaay better if they had just spread ... read more
This comp is just incredible. This pacing is awful but every song on this makes me want to become a depressed intergalactic space demon. OMGGG THE TEXTURESSSSSSSSSS.
Best Track: NYC
Worst Track: Ashtray Wasp maybe?
Best Track: NYC
Worst Track: Ashtray Wasp maybe?
Across two and a half hours of material, Burial's singles and EPs over the last decade paint a complex, shape-shifting image of the electronic vanguard, with desolate wastelands of ambience giving way to blissful melodic passages and pensive, calculated beats, guided by mysterious vocal samples that never stay in the same place for too long. These tracks are long, reaching nearly 14 minutes at their longest, and averaging out at around nine, but for the most part that time is earned, and Burial ... read more
Each track is a trip itself. The whole album sounds like a dream. Sound is tailored to perfection and the themes chosen are very contemporary. I can only compare the level of this album to Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Music and Boards Of Canada's Music Has The Right to Children. Epic.
Oh it's all the music that was good when it came out in one place. Thank you Mr. Burial.
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Track List
- State Forest
- Beachfires
- Subtemple
- Young Death
- Night Market
- Hiders
- Come Down To Us
- Claustro
- Rival Dealer
- Kindred
- Loner
- Ashtray Wasp
- Rough Sleeper
- Truant
- Street Halo
- Stolen Dog
- NYC
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Added on: October 25, 2019
