XL Recordings has hinted {that a} new launch from enigmatic producer Burial is on the horizon.
The teaser for brand spanking new music got here within the type of a put up on-line, the place the label shared a 14-second snippet of music – showing to be a brand new monitor from the elusive South London artist.
Shared on XL’s Twitter/X account on Monday (January 1), the audio clip got here with a decidedly low-res picture, exhibiting his trademark “cross” image hidden behind the brand for the file label.
As for the brand new music, the forthcoming launch seems to centre on his earlier, extra rave-focused sound, as a substitute of his newer ambient work. Test it out beneath.
— XL RECORDINGS (@XLRECORDINGS) January 1, 2024
Whether it is confirmed that Burial has signed to XL Recordings, any upcoming new work would mark his first solo launch with the label. It will additionally observe a string of releases outdoors Kode9’s Hyperdub label, the place he had been releasing music for almost twenty years.
Whereas related to Hyperdub, Burial launched his acclaimed second studio album ‘Unfaithful’ in 2007 – an LP which earned him a Mercury Prize nomination. Extra lately, he labored with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and 4 Tet for the collaborative monitor ‘Her Revolution’, which was launched through XL again in 2020.
His newest work arrived final summer time, when Burial joined forces with Kode9 on a shock monitor through Cloth Originals titled ‘Infirmary/Unknown Summer season’. The tune dropped after the label teased a brand new launch by cryptic billboards round East London.
Again in 2022, Burial dropped an EP titled ‘ANTIDAWN’. It went on to obtain a four-star assessment from NME, being described as leaving listeners “immersed in an open-world of atmosphere; throughout its 5 meandering tracks, faint vocal snippets are laid over a static near-silence”.
