Tunes 2011-2019 does a similar yet no less impressive trick, in that it gives Burial a chance to move a decade of work into perfect order and say: this is what I meant.
In its attempts to re-appropriate, Tunes 2011-2019 plots a new course for a path already walked. Now no longer acting as square pegs designed for round holes, scattered jigsaw pieces now fit.
Tunes 2011 to 2019 is a far cry from the Burial of 2005 to 2007, but he’s as capable as ever of unlocking those same feelings—just now with a different set of tools.
Two-and-a-half-hour compilation Tunes 2011-2019 works its way backwards through the last decade of Burial's output, but like many of the producer's post-Untrue undertakings, it generally resists neat and tidy execution.
Burial's late-decade compilation in 2019 serves as an outstanding reflection of his overall output since his first two albums. While the structure and runtime of the comp is absurd, I managed to sink a ton of emotional energy and then some while developing a heavy fixation with all of the tracks here, regardless of length or style.
Now, ever since I was a kid, I had this deep infatuation with space. Like, I would just sneak away from my parents whenever I could at any time to run to the ... read more
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
the ambience on this thing is so weird and distorted its almost mesmerizing and entrancing in a way. for an album with a runtime well over 2 hours in length, it feels like such a massive experience to listen to this thing in full
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