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| #1 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 19:08 Style: Burial 
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| #2 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 19:26 I'll admit I haven't had the chance to listen to this through a decent setup yet, but what I heard of it was pretty bland. 3.5 for me.
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| #3 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 19:27 Posted by WoonyStyle: Burial Yup 
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| #4 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 19:28 I've never been in the Burial church, but these two tracks are very very good. Rough Sleeper sounds like a gospel, indeed.
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| #5 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 19:29 not the one
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| #6 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 19:47 Rough Sleeper is the winner
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| #7 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 19:56 Posted by WoonyStyle: Burial
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| #8 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 20:02 ep is insane. takes a couple of listens because there is just so much going on, but then it's 5/5 for life. some truely genius stuff, if you didnt care for it on first spin give it a couple more you'll fall in love.
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| #9 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 20:06 very well written review btw, seems you loved it surprised no 5/5? or at least 4.5? anyway, to each his own, but my own is burial 
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| #10 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 20:19 i'll never get tired of this ep... his work on the vocals, the drums, the progression of the songs, how they seem to tell a story, how they materialize the melody in a feeling that pierces you literally... seriously, this guy is such a legend.
perfection reached the next level with mr bevan.
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| #11 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 20:41 (Edited: 22 Dec 12 00:05) I wasn't keen on how it was stitched together, it sounds like 4 tracks on one record and the stop start was annoying. I'll give it another go but at the moment this is my least favourite Burial record.
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| #12 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 21:18 Haha 'Style- Burial'. Bout right.
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| #13 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 21:25 (Edited: 22 Dec 12 06:34) Speaking as someone who has never been a huge fan, this is probably the first Burial release that I unreservedly love. Well *almost* unreservedly, because - as JoseMclean mentions above - the stop-start randomness gets tiring after a while. I'm sure someone somewhere is writing a review about how this perfectly illustrates "like, the disposable nature of music in the youtube era, man" because Burial brings out the worst in critics, but other than that I think this is perfect.
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| #14 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 22:02 I'm the opposite of the below poster, this is the first Burial release that I could take or leave. Nothing about it really grabs me, just seems like a bunch of unfinished ideas.
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| #15 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 22:37 YES to style: Burial.
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| #16 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 23:34 Only Burial could have made such crafted works such as these lengthy tunes ... or maybe Ricardo Villalobos ... :-P
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| #17 / Fri, 21 Dec 12 23:53 Style: Burial.
LOL- Awesome!
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| #18 / Sat, 22 Dec 12 01:29 edit
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| #19 / Sat, 22 Dec 12 03:30 I *love* this EP. The tunes here emote like they did on UNTRUE (which this EP reminds me of). While I love everything Burial's done, this EP is my favorite when compared to STREET HALO and KINDRED.
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| #20 / Sat, 22 Dec 12 07:40 If there isn't already, there should be a ratings pool.
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| #21 / Sat, 22 Dec 12 07:40 Very nice review. And of course: Truant < Rough Sleeper
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| #22 / Sat, 22 Dec 12 11:22 Yep, nice review, and it's great to see Burial doing something different. I'm not sure that doing the same thing forever would be sustainable, though, personally.
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| #23 / Sat, 22 Dec 12 13:22 The first Burial release that I'm disappointed with.
Not a fan of the stop-start style which sounds like multiple different track snippets.
There is still some gorgeous ideas there but just when the track begins to get interesting it changes to something else completely.
Admittedly, I may need to give these tracks more time, because I've only listened to them a handful of times, and I really liked the way he executed this on Ashtray Wasp, but here it seems a bit much. They sound like completely different tracks every couple of minutes.
I hope he doesn't continue producing tracks in this vein.
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| #24 / Sat, 22 Dec 12 14:35 @burka-burka i completely agree, i loved ashtray wasp, the way those seemingly unrelated parts of the track came together so cohesively but i feel like it doesn't work so well here. that said i may change my mind with more listens
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| #25 / Sat, 22 Dec 12 15:58 This man can do no wrong
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| #26 / Sat, 22 Dec 12 23:22 Experimental as always, Burial delivers and revokes a real cathartic emotions through this cyber flavored Tokyo train video.... www.clubbingunlimited.com
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| #27 / Sun, 23 Dec 12 14:25 Good review. It's admirable how much Will's pushed himself this year. This thing feels like the body count after Kindred's massacre.
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| #28 / Sun, 23 Dec 12 15:09 gorgeous release...
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| #29 / Sun, 23 Dec 12 15:17 genious
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| #30 / Mon, 24 Dec 12 10:22 Not feeling it - will keep trying though.
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| #31 / Tue, 25 Dec 12 02:08 (Edited: 25 Dec 12 11:04) I'm not sure
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| #32 / Tue, 25 Dec 12 02:12 (Edited: 25 Dec 12 11:04) Coffee table as a motherfuck! Yes!!!!!.
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| #33 / Tue, 25 Dec 12 02:15 (Edited: 25 Dec 12 11:05) .
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| #34 / Wed, 26 Dec 12 01:54 Just bought the vinyl. I am impressed. What a talent!!! Street halo already stop me breathing and here I need to get some fresh air! Super tracks!!!!!!!
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| #35 / Wed, 26 Dec 12 20:39 Perfect for the Winter, nice slow tempo and chilled out vibes. G'man Will, you've done good
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| #36 / Thu, 27 Dec 12 21:19 agree with Rough Sleeper feeling greater in general, but the two minutes from 6:30 to 8:30 in truant are so amazing anytime!!!
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| #37 / Fri, 28 Dec 12 16:50 lights surrounding you... be strong...
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| #38 / Sat, 29 Dec 12 04:24 i'm not really a fan of the constant dropping in and out. one thing i loved about older burial material was how all of his tracks were like 'songs' but this just feels like a compilation of sketches thrown together.
the last minute and a half of truant and last three minutes of rough sleeper are all that matter
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| #39 / Sun, 30 Dec 12 17:47 Whenever Burial releases something new, RA should just have 3 buttons that we can choose from to click and post how we feel about said release.
Button 1: Burial is God. Not a god, but THE God. Everything he touches is brilliant. Burial is absolute genius. He could breathe into a microphone for 10 minutes and release the result, and I'd buy the ultra-limited edition 720g vinyl with download code for beyond audiophile grade digital download.
Button 2: I'm way too cool to reveal that I'm on actually on the Burial bandwagon. I am underground! So I'll say that I'm not a fan, but I love this new release, even though I secretly want to press Button 1. Heaven forbid I lose any underground credibility. I mean, it sucked badly enough when my friends found out I like Hawthorne Heights and they stripped me of my emo cred.
Button 3: Meh.
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| #40 / Tue, 01 Jan 13 02:07 There is a wow factor here with these, especially Rough Sleeper. The last two EPs i found really uninteresting, not bad, but i never put them on, unlike everything that came before...
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| #41 / Tue, 01 Jan 13 02:57 Posted by Sockbert
Whenever Burial releases something new, RA should just have 3 buttons that we can choose from to click and post how we feel about said release.
Button 1: Burial is God. Not a god, but THE God. Everything he touches is brilliant. Burial is absolute genius. He could breathe into a microphone for 10 minutes and release the result, and I'd buy the ultra-limited edition 720g vinyl with download code for beyond audiophile grade digital download.
Button 2: I'm way too cool to reveal that I'm on actually on the Burial bandwagon. I am underground! So I'll say that I'm not a fan, but I love this new release, even though I secretly want to press Button 1. Heaven forbid I lose any underground credibility. I mean, it sucked badly enough when my friends found out I like Hawthorne Heights and they stripped me of my emo cred.
Button 3: Meh.
Haha. If you'd actually read any of Burial's reviews on RA, you would see that your remarks don't make any sense here.
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| #42 / Tue, 01 Jan 13 03:04
Haha. If you'd actually read any of Burial's reviews on RA, you would see that your remarks don't make any sense here.
Just talking about Burial reviews in general, not only on RA because I've never once bought or abstained from buying something based on anyone's review, at least when it comes to music. It's so darn subjective that it makes me laugh a bit. What I wrote could apply to just about any artist...you've got the hardcore fans who would rate any record high if it's done by "their" artist and then the complete opposite attitude, that of the "doesn't matter what it is, if it's by so-and-so then it's overhyped and it sucks" variety. Oh, and I didn't really mean reviews, either. I'm talking about the comments that follow the reviews. Cheers.
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| #43 / Tue, 01 Jan 13 16:37 Posted by nebuchadnezzar3
YES to style: Burial.
as in yes to same old tired shit? ps. i liked "untrue"
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| #44 / Wed, 02 Jan 13 04:23 Posted by oopu
There is a wow factor here with these, especially Rough Sleeper. The last two EPs i found really uninteresting, not bad, but i never put them on, unlike everything that came before...
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| #45 / Thu, 03 Jan 13 01:00 This is the first time of my life I listen to Burial seriously :
Truant is just one of the best tracks evermade, in my humble personal opinion.
This is serious history we have here.
I like the comments saying it's paranoid music, dark, constantly droping and stoping.
Come on guys, this is not kindergarten here...
The sound design is pretty incredbile, this is pure marvel amazing work.
The arrangement is also very intersting : it's just telling you a story, it's like watching a movie, with your ears. None of the 2012 TOP 50 tracks voted here on RA got THAT amount of content...IMO
As a conclusion...what about this : IS Burial ... Four Tet ?
MEH !
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| #46 / Sat, 05 Jan 13 13:09 Burial is Eminem
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