The once secretive and unnamed london based producer ’Burial’ follows up his debut self titled release with the best album of 2007, and without a doubt, my favorite electronic album I’ve ever heard.
While listening to this grimy fogged up haze of dark midnight melodies I couldn’t help but realize how inaccessible it is to some people. Not everyone would dig this sound, not everyone would ‘get it’, this truly is underground music. But maybe thats the whole point of the album.
Burial is presenting a dance record. It has everything the UK garage sound needs, the skattering percussion tripping over its self, the deep sub bass that vibrates right through you, warm yet distant soul vocal samples glowing in the darkness of the gloomy sound which is keeping his signature sound from being full blow dance Garage. It comes off more of Burial’s salute to the now dead and gone, but not forgotten, genre that is UK Garage. Each track sounds like he is attempting to recreate one of his favorite 2-Step tunes from a half remembered memory. It’s foggy and hazy, it’s not all there, but it’s glowing with nostalgia.
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