Burial | 12" | Kindred EP | Hyperdub
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'"Loner" opens to a voice calling out "there's something out there." There is indeed, as it turns out, a beast lurking nearby, and it leaps up without warning with an impossibly steady backbeat and ravey synth riff held high aloft as its weapons of choice. "Loner" is Burial at his most kinetic, the closest thing to a banger as we're ever likely to hear from him. "Ashtray Wasp" plays out as the exact opposite, staying mostly off the dancefloor, opting instead to lurk in the shadows cast by "Loner"s haunted crashes where it looms, full of muted menace. "Wasp" also reprises another of Bevan's favorite narrative forms: the intensely sobering experience that is a solitary bus ride through a desolate nocturnal cityscape. The familiar start-stop motion of late-night public transit is imitated in the track's frequent and jarring transitions from one mini-suite into another, which themselves play off of the varied and rather unpredictable sounds that bleed without warning in and out the mix: half-audible phone conversations, a flurry of fleeting, half-formed beats, and, beneath it all, a grating sub-bass rumble.'
