{"id":47565,"date":"2025-08-05T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47565\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:10:09","slug":"burial-comafields-track-review-pitchfork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47565\/","title":{"rendered":"Burial: \u201cComafields\u201d Track Review | Pitchfork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen months since his <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/burial-dreamfear-boy-sent-from-above-ep\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last EP<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/4806-burial\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burial<\/a> drops us in the middle of a desolate plain. Murky drones swirl, winds howl, and a voice full of <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/clip.cafe\/noah-2014\/i-saw-something-else\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/clip.cafe\/noah-2014\/i-saw-something-else\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/clip.cafe\/noah-2014\/i-saw-something-else\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Biblical portent<\/a> mutters, \u201cI saw something\u2026 flower, bloom from nothing.\u201d Whatever \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/burial-returns-with-new-songs-comafields-and-imaginary-festival-listen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comafields<\/a>,\u201d the title of the new EP\u2019s A-side, might mean to Burial, the 12-minute track certainly suggests a vast, forbidding netherzone stretching darkly beyond the realm of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>All par for the hauntological course, you might say, and you wouldn\u2019t be wrong; with \u201cComafields,\u201d William Bevan is up to all his old tricks\u2014vinyl crackle, unquantized samples, mournfully abraded synths that sound like they\u2019ve been dredged up from a watery grave. But even so, the track\u2014not so much a song as a Frankensteined-together mini-suite, like much of his recent output\u2014feels distinct. After the hardscrabble breakbeats and glowering rave nostalgia of last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/burial-dreamfear-boy-sent-from-above-ep\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dreamfear \/ Boy Sent From Above EP<\/a>, \u201cComafields\u201d is unusually sleek. It\u2019s built out of mournfully tumbling synth arpeggios and a straightforward 4\/4 kick, elegiac sequences that periodically give way to harried bleeping that brings to mind the worried pulse of hospital machinery.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s riddled with spoken-word scraps suggesting revelation, or divine visitation, or perhaps the heavenly beam of a near-death experience (\u201cI can still see\u201d; \u201cstrobelight\u201d). The centerpiece is a mournful vocal hook shot through with yearning: \u201cYou put your arms around me,\u201d time-stretched and drenched in reverb, like weary angels proffering relief. <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/burial\/comments\/1mgi7au\/potential_sample_source_of_comafields_you_put\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/burial\/comments\/1mgi7au\/potential_sample_source_of_comafields_you_put\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/burial\/comments\/1mgi7au\/potential_sample_source_of_comafields_you_put\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u2019s investigators debate whether the voice is that of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zR3jYWXeb9w&amp;t=156s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jens Lekman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/trXypJhaIuU?si=Ra3YeEE2rWWXuJsA&amp;t=89\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor<\/a>, or perhaps both of them, braided together in heavenly concord. Whatever Bevan is doing with those vocal samples, \u201cComafields\u201d is one of the most affecting tracks he\u2019s given us in a while\u2014ambient trance as a weighted blanket for the soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eighteen months since his last EP, Burial drops us in the middle of a desolate plain. 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