Burial – Rival Dealer Review

It’s becoming an early Christmas gift tradition from Burial. For the second year in a row, the mysterious UK electronic artist has released an EP filled with surprises and a short release date. Following the amazing Truant / Rough Sleeper EP of last year, we receive the new Rival Dealer EP, and I cannot tell you how different

Truant / Rough Sleep show Burial’s diversity

What can I say, we’ve been waiting patiently since 2006 for a followup to the amazing album, Unture. It can be hard to nail down Burial‘s sound into a single genre. Although it is easy to tell his 2-step, garage, and ambient influences, his sound is very unique. What his early 2012 release, Kindred, did was only show

Mysterious folk-step samples arrives, asks questions about the future of music

The third wave of electronic music is upon us even if our minds deny its existence. While the early 2000’s brought us sounds of hip-hop and R&B artists in the top 40 and mainstream sounds, electronic music of diverse genres are making a major relapse once again. Notably, House and dub-step has taken great leaps