Features
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.
Wednesday, January 23 2008
Slipped Discs 2007
PopMatters' annual tradition of offering up its Slipped Discs picks continues with the biggest installment to date. These are the albums our writers just loved, but missed our enormous top 60 albums list late last year.
Monday, December 10 2007
The Best Electronica of 2007
As electronic music's edges bleed out all over the genre map, some sounds have been resurrected, others minimally revised, but the sum total shows a genre that, diffuse identity or not, continues to exert its pull on rock, pop, and the dancefloor.
Reviews
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.
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.
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.
Blogs
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.
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.
