A romantic about music
Dan Hancox's interview with/article on Burial is one of my favourite things I've read all year. What a great piece; Untrue is as good (or, probably) better than you've heard if you've heard of it at all, and Hancox does a good job on exploring what makes the guy so interesting. May he successfully preserve his anonymity as long as he wants.
And for such a reclusive, relatively quiet guy, Burial does a great job of articulating for all of us who like darker, sadder music why that is: "When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit moody at them for stepping into my night-time. What I want is that feeling when you're in the rain, or a storm. It's a shiver at the edge of your mind, an atmosphere of hearing a sad, distant sound, but it seems closer - like it's just for you."
And for such a reclusive, relatively quiet guy, Burial does a great job of articulating for all of us who like darker, sadder music why that is: "When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit moody at them for stepping into my night-time. What I want is that feeling when you're in the rain, or a storm. It's a shiver at the edge of your mind, an atmosphere of hearing a sad, distant sound, but it seems closer - like it's just for you."
