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

Okay, so the long awaited followup to Burial's highly acclaimed Untrue may not quite top what he did 12 years ago, but from front to back this is a far more impressive and ambitious record, spanning 2 and a half hours and taking more than half an hour before you get to anything resembling his signature beats. No, this album is an entirely new animal, a compilation of the increasingly experimental and ambient works he's been putting out for the last 8 years that comes together in a shockingly ... read more

It's been more than a decade that the charismatic producer abstains from the album format, releasing obscure Ep's that retain the sonic adventure alive, but find difficulties in doing the same for the myth.