Why is burial dubstep

Post by tkun » Tue Aug 11, am. Post by vactom » Tue Aug 11, am. Post by ory » Tue Aug 11, am. Post by cosmic revenge » Tue Aug 11, am. Privacy Terms. Quick links. Skip to content. Board index Forums General Discussion. Why is burial considered dubstep? Post by chronicrecords » Tue Aug 11, am Is it because this is what early dubstep sounded like or something? Muted air horns flare like the ghosts of raves past. So when I listen back to them I get kind of sad. Rave, for Burial, is almost like an implanted memory.

Welfare became a punitive system designed to push people into the job market. To a large degree, the Thatcher project was to make Britain more like America in its attitudes to work and enterprise, and that project continued under Blair.

The end result is a stark feeling of being on your own in this life; your fate is in your own hands. As it happens, around the time of making Untrue , he was actually mourning the death of a beloved dog. On July 7, , a series of coordinated terrorist attacks killed and maimed a diverse mixture of Londoners setting off for work on an overstretched public transportation system. I felt the music deeper from that point on. But the whole thing would be sad. Every city in the world has night buses, but there is a specific London resonance to this mode of transport.

Since these cash-strapped youth typically lived in the low-rent, furthest-out zones of the city, this meant that the after-rave experience involved a long journey home. A comedown from the collective high, the bus returned ravers to privatized isolation, but offered the consolation prize of a twinkling, kinetic view of the city.

In the interview with Clark, Burial described how he made his tunes in a room whose window overlooked a prison, its grounds, and a stretch of South London freeway that sloped down to the River Thames, with the entire vista often shrouded in wintry mist. When collective dreaming—whether via progressive political projects or music movements like punk or rave—fades from the scene, people look to other sources of strength: traditional organized religions but also pulp spirituality, quasi-magical techniques of positive thinking, and other feel-good salves.

They start to sound like the subconscious. Untrue seems expressly made for the transition from night to day, the wee hours where ideas flicker and fade alongside the waning consciousness. The album may be rooted in the sonic imagery of South London, but its narratives and depictions are universal. It fosters communion in being alone, together.

And whether the listener is aware of it or not, Bevan provides equipment to navigate through it. Every song on Untrue is populated with little clinking percussive bits filling in the voids. Most of them are the sounds of lighters being flicked. It was a cursory exploration in how to build a place of harmony and acceptance. Bevan mastered the use of vocal samples, finding humanity in the ghostly voices he employed by stripping away gendered signifiers altogether; chopped snippets of vocals are pitch-shifted up and down to sound male and female simultaneously.

The record is a pure view of the Burial ethos, stripped of the pretense of propulsive sound. The miracle of Burial will always be the pathos in his sound collages and how they articulate the bonds we share with those we may never know. With Untrue , Bevan managed to escape the temptation of decoding the age ahead of us, instead opting to use the technology at his disposal to repackage memories under threat of being left behind.

A year later, Bevan released Untrue , adding a new layer to the dark, atmospheric stutter that characterized his debut. Draped in robotic vocal hooks, Untrue was a shock to many listeners expecting simply more of the same, but in many ways it continued and elevated the message of its predecessor. To celebrate this milestone in British music, we picked the 13 key influences that helped Bevan create a sound that reminded us of our history while forging a new path.

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