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Wednesday, January 18 2012

The Big Chill: 5 Great Records to Help You Through Winter

PopMatters's Corey Beasley can't knit you a blanket, but he can do the next best thing: here are five classic wintertime records to help you through the big chill.


Friday, April 15 2011

Burial: Street Halo EP

Street Halo presents an even more compromised, even more ambiguous, Burial than before. Existing outside of hi-fi, lo-fi, and ghettoising genre divides, his is a shattered appeal and it's difficult not to get sucked in.


Wednesday, April 28 2010

Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training by Tom Jokinen

Warning: Many people died in the making of this book. Second warning: It’s hilarious.


Thursday, December 10 2009

The Best Singles of 2009: Burial and Four Tet - “Moth/Wolf Cub”

We've unveiled our 50 best singles of the year, but that's not really a lot of songs. So, here are others bubbling just under that 50 mark.


Tuesday, June 2 2009

Burial/Four Tet: “Moth”/“Wolf Cub”

On the surface, Four Tet and Burial don't seem to have much in common. That's precisely what makes this enigmatic 12" single so rewarding.


Monday, September 8 2008

Some Things Just Can’t Stay Buried

Burial's recent revelation would appear to change nothing, but strangely enough it may just affect how we listen to his music.


Thursday, December 13 2007

Burial: Untrue

The idea isn’t to approach Untrue as a dubstep record, but as a record, period. This should be true for all music, but Untrue isn’t like all other music.


Monday, January 8 2007

Burial: Burial

Not just for British underground dance enthusiasts, Burial's album brings dubstep to a wider audience using the tried and true combination of melancholy and nostalgia -- and that bass.


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