Truant / Rough Sleeper (EP)
Burial
Released:
Jan 2013
Label:
Hyperdub
Few besides Burial could come up with a two-track single with a total running time of over 25 minutes. Even more unusually, both songs break down into discrete movements separated by a moment of silence. The dropouts initially seem distracting, but they soon become part of the fabric of the music, as significant as Burial's trademark hiss and clatter. Despite the legions of imitators to spring up in Burial's wake, no one else has mastered the same mix of moody and murky, and here he's at his best, with melodies like ivy sprung from cracked pavement, nurtured by nothing but tears.
Play Album
-
111:45
-
213:47
2013 Hyperdub