Album Review: Antidawn [EP] by Burial

Burial's Antidawn opens with a sound so subtle, so instinctive, you might miss it the first half-dozen times: the muted harrumph of a throat being cleared. But no opening line or expository declaration materializes in its wake. Instead, a thousand shades of gray rush in to fill the void. In the background, a blunted stylus pushes its way endlessly through a dusty vinyl rut, the Sisyphean loop that carries all Burial's music.

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It's hard to overemphasise the influence Burial has had on British electronic music. His seminal 2007 album 'Untrue' was submerged in ghostly, distorted vocal samples and vinyl crackle; was somehow both chilling and comforting, laid-back and danceable, futuristic and wistfully nostalgic. That album's legend has grown over the years, helped by Burial's quiet elusiveness, and by the fact he's never released a third full-length album.

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