Burial / Blackdown: Shock Power of Love
30 April 2021 Shock Power of Love is being advertised as a split, but it doesn’t even pretend to give Burial and Blackdown equal footing. Burial is allowed to splatter his epic treatises on love across nine or ten minutes of vinyl, with Blackdown consigned to four minutes apiece for his comparatively workaday contributions. Given that Shock Power of Love is coming out on Blackdown’s Keysound label versus Burial’s usual home on Hyperdub, we can assume this is by choice. Maybe the boss lured Burial in by acquiescing to a 25-75 split while seizing an opportunity to have his tracks heard; h...
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