Burial: Comafields / Imaginary Festival LP
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*** Out Sept 19, 2025 ***
Just over 20 years since a landmark debut 12”, Burial brings the feels in a now patented, widescreen style after more recently turning a hand to film scores for Andrea Arnold and Harmony Korine.
His first Hyperdub solo ride since ’22 is the double feature ‘Comafields / Imaginary Festival’, delivering throbbing and floating rave frissons up top, and faintest echoes of his earliest self in the B-side’s faded tapestry of UKG and megadome trance vamps. At the risk of repeating ourselves since 2007’s ‘Untrue’, his longform 12” EPs are the nearest we’ll get to a new album and, for what it’s worth, we’ll take it: just play them in sequence and et voila, an album. Quit yer bitching.
The three part beauty ‘Comafields’ appears to be a wink at Scouse trance paradise/Montirex parade, Creamyfields, but from the detached perspective of someone who, if the interviews are true, experienced it vicariously. He takes all the time needed to build a proper, pill belly-stirring intro of slowburn arps and a systolic tump, calving off into a mid section of Orbital-esque bleeps and a heart-in-mouth chord change, before an angelic ascendence to the waltzers and cold rush coda of trance siren commanded with tempered ecstasy.
The multi-part B-side of doleful vocals and 2-step to ‘Imaginary Festival’ could almost be a sketch for ‘Untrue’ recombined with film score offcuts and frissons of Binary Finary-esque trance pads to a more suppressed, impressionistic 10 minute scene that feels like blissing out on your ones whilst everyone gets on it in the distance.
Call the St. John’s ambulance; he’s done us in again.