Burial - Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above [XL Recordings]

After the minimalism of Antidawn and Streetlands, Burial's new EP Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above is maximalist in the extreme: a total return to the early days of rave that fuses hardcore breakbeat, hip-house, techno, electro, and freestyle. The two 26-minute tracks unfold like a pair of multipartite suites, an epic night of rave distilled into two sides of vinyl. It's not the first time he's used this technique; many of his tracks, from at least 2013's "Rival Dealer," have charted a winding path through multiple tracks and fragments, with the hiss of vinyl and spectral samples holding everything together.