Burial Reviews: Untrue Indeed!
So, according to Metacritic, the best reviewed album of 2007 was "Untrue," by the British electronic artist Burial. Consequently, I used the remaining balance on a gift D-Mardree once gave me to legally download the album from a Russian internet vendor. I urge others on this blog to do the same--from a Russian internet vendor or otherwise--so that we can together answer a rather pressing question: what in Zeus's name makes this the best album of Wednesday, let alone 2007? Am I missing something about the electronic genre that makes this so breathtaking?
posted by Robot at 11:09 PM
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Huh. Usually the best reviewed stuff tends to be either reissues by old people (Led Zeppelin, Tom Waits, Brian Wilson) or old people now reinventing themselves with homey, folksy albums produced by people like T-Bone Burnett (the Robert Plant/Allison Krauss pairing, latest Bob Dylan, Ali Farka Toure--he also died that year, so, honorary). The second tier belongs to the best reviewed "indie rock" stuff.
This year it seems they've skipped straight ahead to the "only we find this shit interesting" category. I've heard a track off the Burial record and wondered what the big deal was. Same with the Field, which is just minimal bleeping. Apparently "micro-house" was the in thing this year. Also, I have the Stars of the Lid album, which only the snobbiest of critics could proclaim album of the year. It basically consists of dudes at keyboards adjusting the pitch of their synthesizers every few minutes. It's very pretty, perhaps even "Heaven's waiting room music," as a critic might say, but it's still waiting room music.
The problem with the Burial may be that we neither understand dub nor come from London -- which is what this album is, where it's from, and where it's getting all its rave reviews (Guardian, OMH, Observer, Dot Music UK). Just my luck: I begin to understand reggae, only to discover that dub is where it's at; and dub has always sounded like the aural equivalent of being really stoned to me.
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polishkid50 (6 days ago) Show Hide Marked as spam
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am i missing something here? do you have to be rolling in order to get this? why does everyone like it so much???
L01z (6 days ago) Show Hide Marked as spam
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if u love deep music, and dubstep sounds, u hav to love it :) if u dont, u'll prolly hate it! haha.
rnbmeister (6 days ago) Show Hide Marked as spam
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im not "rolling", try just getting incredibly depressed, maybe a friend dying, or leaving forever, then walking home under streetlights
did it 4 me
yeah, i just downloaded it off isohunt. i give it a big 'meh.' it's art gallery music.
but all i did was the "walk home under streetlights" part. no one died.
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