Greg Fenton reviews Burial – Comafields / Imaginary Festival – Hyperdub
If you like ideas to expand in long form, Burial’s latest release of sound will excite nerve endings just as it will the brain, soul and function. Although the twelve plus minutes of Comafields flash by in an almost instant, weaving in and out of emotional conversation as words occasionally appear, adding questions while unfolding chord-fuelled pads, fleshing out an entirety of movement soaked in the prospect of possible wonder in our uncertain, chaotic universe. It’s a startling, involving listen that traverses change with different drum colours, contrasting moods, mimicking our surroundings perfectly at the given moment.
Followed by the bumpy pulse of Imaginary Festival, feeling lost like a walk through into lights and illumination, igniting a hazy dawn of excess, punctuated by the sounds that tingle on edges, joined but not necessarily in order. Again, a collage of sonic consequences that feels astonishing and fascinating, through which you can witness your imaginary destiny of how the mind is being directed through suggestions of sonic navigation. More illuminating brilliance.
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