With Antidawn, titles are tagged to things that we can call songs for the sake of convenience but really feel like passages of sound that only their creator can truly delineate. I’m reminded of the baroque concertos of musique concrete, where the idea of what constituted a single piece of music was often thoroughly obscured. No extended mood or common vocabulary is reaching across the duration of a song, let alone between songs. The base materials are familiar to any follower of Burial’s work, but this is his most diffuse manifestation. Refusing that definition presents a coherent suite of music that utterly escapes any capacity to summarize it coherently.
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ANTIDAWN EP by Burial ANTIDAWN EP by BurialĪfter nearly a decade-and-a-half of one or two-track singles and the odd three-track EP, it’s great hearing Bevan breathe out into five tracks, a full 44 minutes, that he still doesn’t want associated with whatever the idea of ‘the album’ conjures up for him. Its title is cryptic, a daybreak that isn’t so a morning session for all-night ravers the moment before nightfall a black sun a dark day? The same goes for Maya Hewitt’s cover art, the starkest image ever on a Burial record but provides no further story someone could grip to save them from drowning in ambiguity. Just as the white sleeve of 2019’s “Claustro”/”State Forest” 12-inch didn’t signal some bright shift in tone, nor does Antidawn’s white package say anything.
While he has always invoked the hours of darkness, his music has never lacked warmth, and its darkness is often electrifyingly vital and alive.Īntidawn could almost be a put-on teasing those listeners and critics who remain determined to pin down precise cues in Bevan’s work. To do so has always felt as meaningful as painting human emotions onto the faces of animals. It’s particularly an issue with the work of William Bevan, aka Burial, where there’s always been too much going on to accept the lazy ascribing of melancholy, sadness, or longing to his music. Such basic tagging only suffices for the most beige of souls and sounds. This is the modern world of Netflix soundtracks, where what we’re supposed to feel has to be signaled in the most boneheaded fashion: this song is sad, this song is happy, rave is exciting, heavy metal is angry. That same inability to readily accept a more mysterious span of emotional association is present when oversimplistic labels are painted onto music. Brutal places feel comfortingly like home, while peace and love look terrifyingly strange. One factor is that in searching for comprehension, there’s an inability to understand that what looks awful to the outsider is perhaps tragically familiar to those who have suffered. Hardy Announces ‘Hixtape Volume 2’ Featuring 33 Different Artists On 14 SongsĮditorial credit: Debby Wong / Shutterstock.Society is terrible at empathizing with victims of abuse. HARDY added that he will be dropping a new song from the upcoming project every Friday for the next 14-weeks saying, “I’m telling you right now, you ain’t ready for this one!” The first track from the project is expected to be released this Friday, September 10. Now, I’m only singing on 6-songs but the rest of the songs are awesome and it’s people singing that are some of the most talented and rowdiest people Nashville has to offer and here’s what we’re going to do.” Get this, 33 artists and bands, 14-songs. This time we’re going to do it a little bit different. 1 was awesome, 10 songs, 16 of my good friends, I sang every single song. Hardy explained in the clip: “I know a lot of y’all have been asking when Hixtape No. 2 will feature 14 songs and 33 artists/bands, however, HARDY will only be singing on 6 of the tracks, while the other tracks will feature the “most talented and rowdiest people Nashville has to offer,” according to the video clip. HARDY explained on the Hixtape Instagram page that Hixtape Vol. Hardy’s first number one as an artist, “One Beer” featuring Lauren Alaina and Devin Dawson, appeared as part of HixTape Vol.1 1 was released in 2019 and featured 16 artists including Morgan Wallen, Mitchell Tenpenny, Keith Urban, Lauren Alaina, and many more. Songwriter HARDY announced that ‘HIXTAPE Vol.