Bleep

We’ve become accustomed to Burial surprise dropping some greatness by now, but this EP was truly unexpected, containing some of his most utterly transcendent material. Everything here is transmitted through a brilliant spectral haze, with brittle ethereal vocal samples turning angelic in the cinematic slowburn of each track. A far of rhythm churns the currents of ‘Comafields’, turning angelic over a gentle shuffling stomp and the subtly sawing bassline, while ‘Imaginary Festival’ sputters a ghostly geyser, its heavy lidded two step beat stumbling into the catharsis of a raving trance synth screaming in the background amidst a tranquil hum.