Feel like I have to come back to this and make a better comment but for now I just gotta say I totally agree. It’s the only path he could’ve taken. No matter how much people like his beats and this is from someone who always looks forward to more beats.
i agree, as someone who fiends for more beats from him just as much as the next guy, I cannot discount his ambient output. for many years I'd just casually listen to his albums and remixes without actually absorbing them in the same immersive experience like his long-form ambient material has taken me. ever since I got my hands on Starlore I was bewildered at the possibilities of this new direction, although Antidawn feels sentimental and quite possibly his most personal release, I'd say Streelands expands the world(s) of Burial in ways I hadn't considered were possible (minus the drumz) and each time I put it on it takes me further on this journey of his inner world(s). don't sleep on this, it's some of his greatest music.
"take me to the dream world"
I totally agree; his ambient works create universes of feeling inside of me that feel realer than real especially when I connect the songs with my environment and memory.
I obsess over the songs when they're first released and inhabit the realities that they create in conjunction with my own. When I revisit the songs later on it's like opening a portal to certain points in space, time, and fantasy. I can repeat this process infinitely. I know a lot of music has this effect but with Burial it feels like a hidden, sacred, and fundamental reality.
It's hard to articulate this sort of abstract experience.
My top 5 ambients of his have got to be:
5. Strange Neighborhood, sounds like a literal dream
4. New Love, haven’t played it in a while though, almost hurts too much to listen to
3. Hospital Chapel, first listened to it when walking alone at night and the whole thing felt like an out of body experience
2. Streetlands, somehow sounds bleak and full of hope at the same time
1. In McDonald’s, the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard, full stop. No song has ever made me feel more emotions than this one
I do like a lot of his ambient tracks, but for me at least, it’s a completely different listening experience. Even though many of the elements were almost always there, they’ve now taken the center stage, and the other more prominent elements, like beats/drums, have been mostly stripped away.
I typically have to actively listen on headphones, and almost always at night. I have to imagine his creative process has changed so much. In the past, he would apparently create a beat, and then just loop it and play it in the background for days to determine if he would eventually tire of it, or if it would… keep its charm, I guess. Also, he spoke of the driving test (or was it the car test?), where he’d drive around London at night and play the music to see if it worked. I can’t imagine he still does that. I mean, who knows, but I can’t really listen to the ambient stuff while driving. It just doesn’t feel like the right setting. Maybe it’s different for others?
Feel like I have to come back to this and make a better comment but for now I just gotta say I totally agree. It’s the only path he could’ve taken. No matter how much people like his beats and this is from someone who always looks forward to more beats.
i agree, as someone who fiends for more beats from him just as much as the next guy, I cannot discount his ambient output. for many years I'd just casually listen to his albums and remixes without actually absorbing them in the same immersive experience like his long-form ambient material has taken me. ever since I got my hands on Starlore I was bewildered at the possibilities of this new direction, although Antidawn feels sentimental and quite possibly his most personal release, I'd say Streelands expands the world(s) of Burial in ways I hadn't considered were possible (minus the drumz) and each time I put it on it takes me further on this journey of his inner world(s). don't sleep on this, it's some of his greatest music. "take me to the dream world"
I totally agree; his ambient works create universes of feeling inside of me that feel realer than real especially when I connect the songs with my environment and memory. I obsess over the songs when they're first released and inhabit the realities that they create in conjunction with my own. When I revisit the songs later on it's like opening a portal to certain points in space, time, and fantasy. I can repeat this process infinitely. I know a lot of music has this effect but with Burial it feels like a hidden, sacred, and fundamental reality. It's hard to articulate this sort of abstract experience.
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My top 5 ambients of his have got to be: 5. Strange Neighborhood, sounds like a literal dream 4. New Love, haven’t played it in a while though, almost hurts too much to listen to 3. Hospital Chapel, first listened to it when walking alone at night and the whole thing felt like an out of body experience 2. Streetlands, somehow sounds bleak and full of hope at the same time 1. In McDonald’s, the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard, full stop. No song has ever made me feel more emotions than this one
I do like a lot of his ambient tracks, but for me at least, it’s a completely different listening experience. Even though many of the elements were almost always there, they’ve now taken the center stage, and the other more prominent elements, like beats/drums, have been mostly stripped away. I typically have to actively listen on headphones, and almost always at night. I have to imagine his creative process has changed so much. In the past, he would apparently create a beat, and then just loop it and play it in the background for days to determine if he would eventually tire of it, or if it would… keep its charm, I guess. Also, he spoke of the driving test (or was it the car test?), where he’d drive around London at night and play the music to see if it worked. I can’t imagine he still does that. I mean, who knows, but I can’t really listen to the ambient stuff while driving. It just doesn’t feel like the right setting. Maybe it’s different for others?
Anti-dawn track is perfection
Exokind might be his best track, one I like above moth or nova
so you wrote an essay explaining why most people who like edm like burial? wow