Burial, everyone’s favorite guy with the kind of mysterious identity, just announced another EP, planned for release on December 16. Or at least that’s what Consequence of Sound says. Or rather, that’s what Alex Young the CEO and publisher of Consequence of Sound says in a news post that he typed up and posted on Consequence of Sound because he is a human with an identity, unlike Burial, who, for all we know, could just be a weird computer glitch on the AOL mainframe or something. I mean what do we really know about Burial? He’s maybe a fellah from London, I guess? So he probably lives in a flat and eats chips and uses a torch to find the quid that he dropped down the lift shaft, right? We also know he’s definitely (probably) not Four Tet, but that he has collaborated with Four Tet. He also put out another EP, Truant/Rough Sleeper, last year right around this time, so I guess we also know that he’s pretty good with calendars and keeping a schedule.
There’s also, of course, the fact that he’s got a new EP coming out on December 16 (because NPR told Alex Young and then Alex Young told us! thanks, you guys!), but the info is a little scant even there. I guess the EP is supposed to be 28 minutes long, and it’ll have three tracks, and it’ll be on Hyperdub, and… that’s it. We don’t even know the title yet. Alex Young, on the other hand? We know loads about that guy. Did you know some of his favorite musicians are Kanye West, The White Stripes, and Bruce Springsteen? He also went to Fordham University, and now he lives in Chicago! What else? Oh, he founded Consequence of Sound in 2007, and he sometimes wears striped shirts and smiles! What a guy.
• Burial: http://us.myspace.com/burialuk
• Hyperdub: http://www.hyperdub.net
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