But is this not more the case of Burial's music foregrounding the very patchwork nature of ourselves as hauntological subjects-- a contingent morass of ghosts, (from the standpoint of the human being: genetic, memetic, linguistic, conceptual-viral) a teeming host of fragments speaking through us, inhabiting us, all covered over by an illusory sense of free will and ego-identity...?
Burial "Untrue"
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Yes! This is better put.
It's so dark and grey and sleepy today. Going to put on Untrue and take a nap.
I wanted to dislike this album, I dunno why - I guess it fits somewhere in that tradition of making 'intelligent' or palatable street music. but I absolutely love it....much better than the first, which to me was over-rated (sounding in parts no better than something off an 'ambient dub' compilation from about 95)
audiofelch
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This thread needs to be rated, it's one of the best conversations about an album that I've ever read on Dissensus.
i concur! Incredible stuff.
noel emits
a wonderful wooden reason
Could Burial herald the arrival of something genuinely new? A real Deus Ex Machina in all senses? A sudden intervention in the cultural / historical narrative by an actual ghost from out of the machines? The voice of A I?
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the above is what an acid trip on heroin feels like, btw, for those interested in psychopharmacourbangeographical mapping like i am 
others should ignore the statement and not bother reprimanding me for it, thnx It's also a picture of what Burial's music sounds like
others should ignore the statement and not bother reprimanding me for it, thnx
It's also a picture of what Burial's music sounds likenoel emits
a wonderful wooden reason
THE Ambient Dub compilation had some pretty fine creations on it I think:
21st Century Aura - Disorientation
Mimoid - Strawberry
Higher Intelligence Agency - Ketamine Entity
nomos
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awesome. reminds me of snorting morphine atoms in zero gravity while receiving a salvia enema.the above is what an acid trip on heroin feels like, btw, for those interested in psychopharmacourbangeographical mapping like i am
others should ignore the statement and not bother reprimanding me for it, thnx
still haven't heard the album. when it arrives i'm taking it out for a nighttime walk.
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This is an album that fully realizes (on an aesthetic level) the post-human, where I think other dubstep I've heard doesn't.
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roffle. er really? on that note it's naptime
bassnation
the abyss
i have to be honest, i'd be rating all of those above anything on the 2nd burial lp.
Less of your sarcasm, and tell us who he is!it's turned into one of THOSE discussions
lol - I'm only kidding guys
Or maybe he's better as a figment of our imagination...
mos dan
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i don't think it made the final edit of my article, but burial said in our interview, only semi-flippantly, "i wish i was a ghost".
also, this was going to be the final para of my article:
guardian music ed: "i had to cut that last para dan. you'd have been in 'pseud's corner' in a shot"
he says that like it's a bad thing
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That would have been a fine closing!
Used to be an Arts editor for my college paper. That was fun. Would be loathe to read what some 19-year-old would say about the Burial album.
Used to be an Arts editor for my college paper. That was fun. Would be loathe to read what some 19-year-old would say about the Burial album.
noel emits
a wonderful wooden reason
A portrait of the artist as a young man.
noel emits
a wonderful wooden reason
The bit just before that sounds like a Bovril ad.
