Dubstep producer Burial is such a shadowy figure he claims only five people know his true identity. Even his closest friends, apparently, are unaware of his secret life as the architect of bleakly futuristic, and critically-lauded, comedown elegies.
Dubstep, a less vocally-aggressive sibling of grime, traditionally only makes sense blasting through the sound system of a sweat-drenched club, but in Burial’s hands it can be weirdly solemn and contemplative, best listened to on headphones late at night, or in the rain.
Last year’s self-titled debut was a concept album, intended to evoke images of a post-apocalyptic London, submerged under water. The follow-up, Untrue is slightly more upbeat, though still charged with a sense of nameless, claustrophobic, inner-city dread: the club-culture equivalent of Thom Yorke’s “Rows of houses/All bearing down on me”.
Untrue is out November 5, but standout track Near Dark is being hosted here right now. Somewhat fittingly, it’s a pirated copy, so try and ignore the robotic voice that says, “This is a Hyperdub promo.”
He might not ‘do’ interviews, but when Burial does speak he does so with the voice of a nocturnal urban poet. “What I want,” he told Guardian Unlimited recently, “is that feeling when you're in the rain, or a storm. It's a shiver at the edge of your mind, an atmosphere of hearing a sad, distant sound. The far cry."
11:26 AM | 26/10/2007
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