Burial Returns to Hyperdub with 'Comafields / Imaginary Festival'
Burial marks 20 years of spectral sound with a new two-track EP on Hyperdub that dives deep into the atmospheric haze he helped define.
Cameron Holbrook
Burial’s back on Hyperdub, and he’s taking us deep into the fog. His new two-tracker Comafields / Imaginary Festival is a moody, ghost-ridden return to the haunted beauty that made us fall for him in the first place.
“Comafields” stretches across 12 immersive minutes – all crackle, swirling synths, and distant, aching voices. It’s pure atmosphere – like wandering alone at 3am with nothing but memories for company. Flip to “Imaginary Festival” and its Burial in full spacious, spectral mode: warped chords, grainy textures, and distant vocal cries that feel like echoes from an event you never quite made it to. Listen below.
Twenty years since he first debuted on Hyperdub with South London Boroughs and over 15 since Untrue – a record that is universally revered as one of the most iconic electronic records of all time – Burial remains steadfast in his own lane. He doesn’t chase trends, he ghosts them. Deep in the murk and still whispering to the night, this EP is a reminder: no one does beautiful desolation quite like him.
