Burial

Tunes 2011 to 2019

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 of 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 ... read more

Ambient pieces in the first half are pretty boring but around track 8 this shit gets GOINGGGG

Everything Burial makes is so textured and layered... The level of emotional depth (weirdly enough) is so freaking good... I just wished I would've listened to it at midnight...

burial's tunes 2011-2019 is a gift and at the same time one of the most frustrating releases ever created. i love a lot of the music on this compilation, it contains one of my top 5 favorites eps (kindred). however, i think what the this comp highlights the most is a lack of progress.

as time has passed, burial's music has gotten increasingly more bland and lifeless. i think the last time burial made a legitimately great project was the truant ep, which was an absolutely insane pair of tracks ... read more