Tiny Listens #21 (Burial - Unknown Summer)
Burial - Unknown Summer
Once a week Tiny Listens sends out suggestions for things to listen to — music, podcasts and what-not. No particular genre, style or format, just something to enrich your day.
TINY LISTENS 0021 • July 14, 2024
Burial - Unknown Summer
It feels a touch obvious to keep talking about the heat, but what can you do. Like music, the weather creeps in—swaddles us. Influences our moods and behaviours.
Each summer day fills with the heat, the thick air, stillness. Fragments of nearby activity filter through the windows melting together with music from passing cars.
Hazy sunlight and cricket song create an atmosphere of both nostalgia and immediacy. A season of half-remembered afternoons, where time seems to stretch and fade at the edges. A mix of joyful moments and the quiet, contemplative spaces in between, much like the ephemeral nature of youth itself. Summer carries a bittersweet undertone, as the relentless march of days promises an inevitable end, even as it delivers the most vibrant memories.
Burial’s music, often strongly associated with night, rain and winter, fits here. Unknown Summer, like the season, evoke a deep sense of place and time. The track pulses with a ghostly beat, but it never asserts itself, holding back, like it’s too hot to get too energetic. Fractured vocals and hazy synths give a sense of another lost summer day fading into evening.
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