Jolly exciting news, this.
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I’ll be honest, when I saw this my first reaction was that if this was their idea of a special landmark, then it’s no wonder they’re being forced to wind the series up. Two artists whose best work and biggest cultural impact is more than a decade behind them? Not getting my pulse racing, I’m afraid.
Of course, it may well turn out to be brilliant and I’ll look stupid. It won’t be the first time.
oh ignore me, I’m just miserable.
Have you tried watching The Sound of Music?
Doh! A deer! A female deer! Ray! A drop of golden sun!!
Round my way TSOM means The Sisters Of Mercy.
More bloody nuns
You Thompson Twins fans are incorrigible!
Has anyone ever successfully corriged anyone?
Joe Corrigan?
The Corrigable Planets?
Ha, don’t worry, I quite understand. Personally I still love them both — in fact, I’ve bene ‘off’ and then come back round with Burial — so I’m fairly excited.
Burial. I remember having a listen to this person?/band? about a decade ago and dismissing it with that old stalwart phrase my dad (the old stalwart) used to say, ‘It sounds like a broken record’.
But it’s Friday and I’m feeling open to new music. Where is the best place to start with Burial?
Untrue is his most complete work and one of the finest albums of this century in my view. It’s dark and brooding but ends with a ray of hope in Raver. If you don’t like this, Burial is probably not for you.
Sorry, I gave it about twenty minutes (tracks randomised) and it’s definitely not for me. I’m struggling to imagine a context where music like this would be listenable… I suppose bits of it are fine as doom-laden abstract stuff (maybe a David Lynch soundtrack?), but in the main all I hear is bedroom demo level stuff by someone who doesn’t know how to work his drum machine and is determined to use that expensive reverb unit he bought on every single track.
He’s amateurish. A bargain bin Tricky.
(Apologies, I’m being sniffy about this, but HEY that’s what this place is all about sometimes, isn’t it??)
Two thumbs up for giving it a go.
I like him and enjoy a bit creepy noir now and then. I see him as the ying to Four Tet’s yang, Four Tet being bright, sunny and full of lovely melody. Perhaps, he’s more your thing.
I gave Four Tet the 20 minute test as well…. better….. but…. I have to say I have grave concerns about what you classify as a ‘lovely melody’…. 🙂
I think here we must shake hands and part as gentlemen.
This has given me an idea for a thread though…..