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Burial’s first solo release in two years (and first release of any description since a 2018 collaboration with The Bug) begins as you might expect. The crackle of needle on wax, wintery synth chords and soft beds of reverb soon give way to a degraded garage shuffle. A burbling bassline starts up before a gender-neutral garage vocal enters the mix, cooing with icy beauty.
All in all the opening strains of ‘Claustro’ are very ‘Archangel’ - so much so that you wonder if the one born William Bevan might be setting aside his forays into dark ambient, drone and techno and returning to the Untrue sound. However, while the beat continues in this vein, Bevan takes a left-turn around the midway point. Old-skool jungle and hardcore sounds have always informed Burial’s output, but rarely have we seen the parallel chords of 90’s party music enter the mix this prominently before. The extra-terrestrial keys that come in here link ‘Claustro’ to the revivalist rave aesthetic currently rife in UK club music, but when they’re deployed in Burial mode we find them to be haunted rather than exuberant.
B-side ‘State Forest’ retreats into the fog. This track strips out the drums and lets the listener get lost in grey blankets of sound. The ghostly fingers of reverb and lingering minor chords put us firmly back in the ambient drone territory Burial last occupied on 2017’s ‘Subtemple’/‘Beachfires’. The Caretaker and Fennesz are two comparable artists, though rarely have they made anything as sombre as this.
The latest entry in Burial’s discography might make overtures to other styles, but ‘Claustro’ and ‘State Forest’ see Bevan standing apart from the crowd once again.
Digital Tracklist
Burial
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- Burial
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- Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above
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- XL Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- XL1401DS
- Release Date
- 2 February 2024
- 12”
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- Burial
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- Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above
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- XL Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- XL1401DS
- Release Date
- 2 February 2024
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- Burial
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- Streetlands EP
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- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDB150D
- Release Date
- 21 October 2022
- EP
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- Burial
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- Antidawn EP
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- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDBCD050
- Release Date
- 6 January 2022
- EP
- CD
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- Burial
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- Chemz / Dolphinz
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- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDB134D
- Release Date
- 21 May 2021
- 12”
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- Burial
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- Tunes 2011-2019
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- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDBCD048D
- Release Date
- 6 December 2019
- CD
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- Burial
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- Pre Dawn / Indoors
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- Nonplus Records
- Catalogue Number
- NONPLUS 043
- Release Date
- 27 October 2017
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Hyperdub
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- Iceboy Violet and Nueen
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- You Said You'd Hold My Hand Through The Fire
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- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDBCD067D
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- 7 June 2024
- LP
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- Foodman
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- Uchigawa Tankentai EP
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- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDB152D
- Release Date
- 10 November 2023
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- Lee Gamble
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- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDBCD065D
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- 20 October 2023
- LP (special)
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- Catalogue Number
- HDB151D
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- 13 October 2023
- Cassette
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- Gentle Confrontation
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- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDBCD064D
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- 22 September 2023
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- Love Hallucination
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- Hyperdub
- Catalogue Number
- HDBCD063D
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- 28 July 2023
- LP
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Bass
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- Hudson Mohawke & Nikki Nair
- ReleaseProduct
- Set The Remixes
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- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WAP486XD
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- 18 April 2024
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- Bait
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- SVBKVLT
- Catalogue Number
- SBKT063
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- 18 April 2024
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- Various Artists
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- PRIMARY FOREST 02
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- CEEXYZ03
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- 18 April 2024
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- Charlotte de Witte
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- Roar
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- KNTXT
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- KNTXT026S1
- Release Date
- 11 April 2024
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- Honey
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- Merge Records
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- MRG848S
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- 8 April 2024
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- Ikonika
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- Details
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- Catalogue Number
- 8718723254359
- Release Date
- 10 April 2024
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- Business As Usual
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- Rosebud Recordings
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- OHX030a
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- 3 April 2024
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Electronic and Electronica
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- Dopplereffekt
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- INFINITE TETRASPACE
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- Curtis Electronix
- Catalogue Number
- CRTSX011
- Release Date
- 1 March 2024
- EP
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- DMX Krew
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- Spiral Dance
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- Hypercolour
- Catalogue Number
- HYPELP026
- Release Date
- 5 April 2024
- LP
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- Orbital
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- Orbital
- Label
- London Music Stream Ltd.
- Catalogue Number
- 179501
- Release Date
- 15 December 2017
- LP
- CD
- Vinyl Boxset
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- Sevendeaths
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- Concreté Misery Decayed Edition
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- LUCKYME®
- Catalogue Number
- LM020XD
- Release Date
- 5 April 2024
- Cassette
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- Olof Dreijer
- ReleaseProduct
- Rosa Rugosa EP
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- Hessle Audio
- Catalogue Number
- 5050580814912
- Release Date
- 17 October 2023
- EP
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- The Exaltics
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- They Arrive
- Label
- Creme Eclipse
- Catalogue Number
- CremeClassics05
- Release Date
- 10 November 2023
- EP
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- The Black Dog
- ReleaseProduct
- Silenced (Remastered)
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- Dust Science
- Catalogue Number
- dustdl120
- Release Date
- 12 April 2024
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- Björk and Rosalía featuring Olof Dreijer
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- Oral (Olof Dreijer Remix)
- Label
- One Little Independent Records
- Catalogue Number
- 1941TP7DL
- Release Date
- 10 April 2024
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- Tim Reaper
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- The Cosmik Connection, Vol. 3
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- Unknown To The Unknown
- Catalogue Number
- UTTU123
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- 24 March 2023
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- Skee Mask
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- ISS009
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- Ilian Tape
- Catalogue Number
- ISS009
- Release Date
- 10 March 2023
- EP
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- Bibio
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- S.O.L. EP
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- Warp Records
- Catalogue Number
- WAPD475EP
- Release Date
- 7 March 2023
- 12”
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- Artist
- Soichi Terada
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- Asakusa Light Remixes
- Label
- Rush Hour
- Catalogue Number
- RHM 046
- Release Date
- 3 March 2023
- 12”
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- I. JORDAN, SHERELLE
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- M1, M3 / GETOUTOFMYHEAD
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- Fabric Worldwide
- Catalogue Number
- FRO004D
- Release Date
- 22 February 2023
- 12”
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- @xcrswx & Lolina
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- Untitled
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- Feedback Moves
- Catalogue Number
- FM2
- Release Date
- 17 February 2023
- 10″
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- altrice
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- JIAOLONG025
- Release Date
- 31 August 2022
- EP
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- Facta
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- Emeline EP
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- Incienso (EU)
- Catalogue Number
- INC-020
- Release Date
- 3 February 2023
- EP
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