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When critics started hearing Burial.
“Ah yes, Burial: you couldn’t not mention him, really.”
So when did critics start hearing Burial in everyone else? These are the reviews in our archive that mention him, in the order they were written.
Each comparison is something a critic wrote, dated, and linked where the review is online. It is not a claim about who shaped whom.
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PITCHFORK ON MODERAT · 27 APRIL 2009
“the beats do owe a lot to Burial.”
Moderat by Moderat, 2009
Read the review (opens in a new tab)PITCHFORK ON CLUBROOT · 11 AUGUST 2009
“Many tout Clubroot, a UK producer, as the next Burial.”
Clubroot by Clubroot, 2009
PITCHFORK ON FLYING LOTUS · 6 MAY 2010
“not unlike something out of Burial’s repertoire and frankly just as good.”
Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus, 2010
BEATS PER MINUTE ON JAMES BLAKE · 7 FEBRUARY 2011
“human beyond Burial’s no-show ghostliness”
James Blake by James Blake, 2011
Read the review (opens in a new tab)PITCHFORK ON BALAM ACAB · 29 AUGUST 2011
“the ghostly dubstep of Burial, an obvious antecedent”
Wander/Wonder by Balam Acab, 2011
PITCHFORK ON PURITY RING · 24 JULY 2012
“ghostly pitch-shifted vocals, reminiscent of the Knife and Burial”
Shrines by Purity Ring, 2012
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Critics heard Burial in all of them.
Written by synff from the reviews above
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