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Burial’s Identity Revealed!
The anonymous dub-step musician, Burial no longer has his anonymity which gave Burial a special lore as his previous self-titled disc and last year’s release of Untrue received wide critical acclaim with Untrue finishing as Metacritic’s top album of 2008.
NME was saying he was the in the lead to win the Mercury Music Prize and while I agree, shouldn’t every person have the right to his or her privacy? In this case Burial aka Will Bevan was outed by people searching with the UK’s Sun telling people to investigate, Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard telling people that Burial went to the same school definitely narrowed down the search.
Burial himself has decided to out himself on his myspace:
hi
for a while theres been some talk about who i am , but its not a big deal
i wanted to be unknown because i just want it to be all about the tunes.
over the last year the unknown thing become an issue so im not into it any more.
im a lowkey person and i just want to make some tunes, nothing else. my names will bevan, im from south london, im keeping my head down and just going to finish my next album, theres going to be a 12″ maybe in the next few weeks too with 4 tunes. hope u like it, i’ll try put a tune up latersorry for any rubbish tunes i made in the past, ill make up for it
a big big thank you to anyone who ever supported me, liked my tunes or sent me messages, it means the world to me
big up everyone, take care, will ( burial )
Hmm I still have more questions, would Burial ever tour now that his identity is revealed? Would he keep his head down trying to conceal his identity? Whatever it is, I wish him the best. The luster of him being some anonymous musician is now gone but he still makes great tunes…albeit still weird for me.
Source: P4K
Burial – Untrue Review
Burial is an anonymous musician from the UK that has been making some noise with his release “Untrue” late in the year. On Metacritic it stands as the best album of the year and many publications have announced it as the top album of the year. Due to this, like usual I tend to check out what’s all the fuss about.
Burial has done some interviews but his identity is still unknown. Pretty mysterious but it gives off a cool aura about it.
Some things of note, Burial is a dubstep musician, basically a genre used by some musicians. I would probably call dubstep a subgenre of electronica. Also Burial’s music is made using SoundForge. I am not quite sure I would’ve liked to know that as a computer doesn’t seem like a instrument (but lots of artists do this so whatever).
Beginning with “Untrue’, I played it multiple times, trying to see what I thought. Every time though, I had a different experience. At one point I was enlightened and I wanted to give this album a great rating. Other times I struggled to listen to it and usually moved onto other artists and songs. One thing to blame and looking at was I that I had a different experience with the album when switching to my laptop from my desktop PC. I was listening to previous on my desktop which had an awesome to go along with some decent subwoofer and really brought out the bass and the rhythm, when my laptop returned I couldn’t hear as much with it and it paled in comparison.
Okay back to the music. Burial’s Untrue is weird. For me I have not listened to anything like it (I’m an electronic noob). It’s feels like minimalistic electronica (that probably wouldn’t sell if it was called that). “Untrue” is very quiet, giving off an eerie vibe that can send chills down your back. One thing I find incorrect about a lot of the publishers are saying, is that this album is catchy and hooks in you. I find this a rather difficult album to listen to and you definitely have to be in the mood for it. The music doesn’t grab my attention, it’s something more of background music with the repetitive lyrics and the bass heavy beats. It’s supposed to be more simple and some have found greatness in it. When forcing myself to sit through the album it’s great but when going through one track or so I feel no connection as to why this would be good.
Overall, this album is GOOD. However, to me it’s not as good as it’s made out to be via the hype (at least to me). It gets a 4 out of 5 from me.
This album I really believe will have polarized opinions. I don’t find it the best of the year by any means and it’s something I definitely know I can hate but like at the same time. I would recommend downloading this album before purchasing it and see how it is for you.
This is my favorite track off the album:
Untrue by Burial
