![]() ![]() Instinct became Björk’s personal law, and boundlessness became her key. Maybe it was the punk-surrealist in her, saying doors are only locked if you believe them to be, that what exists inside your mind is already real. “I’m going hunting for mysteries I’m going to prove the impossible really exists,” Björk sings on the austere “Cover Me,” each note aglow with a sense of discovery. On the dancefloor everybody is a star, but Burial makes music for the lonely people hiding in the shadows. William Bevan released two full-length albums as Burial including one stone classic, 2007’s Untrue. ![]() But since then he’s chosen to issue 12"s and singles, and his music has remained emotionally stirring. It’s dark and sad and dripping with loss but always contains a glimmer of hope over time, that glowing core of yearning has grown brighter. As Simon Reynolds wrote around the 10th anniversary of Untrue:īurial is the one dubstep artist that people who don’t follow dubstep, or even electronic dance music, have latched onto. His albums have been embraced by music fans whose preferred listening might be the Cure (a group whose early and gloomiest music Burial is said to adore) or Radiohead. ![]() It makes sense to slot Burial in that pale lineage of “young men the weight on their shoulders,” to quote an Ian Curtis lyric. ![]()
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