After a week of no new noteworthy albums, today marks the return of Burial's William Emmanuel Bevan, who is out with a
collection of songs released originally in EP form over the last eight years, and released to commemorate underground record label Hyperdub's fifteenth anniversary. No doubt, the compilation will be recognisable to anyone who has been following Bevan. Yet, when sequenced and taken together as a whole, it takes a new unfamiliar form, forcing the listener to confront the familiar in fresh light, as if it were "a guided tour that
recontextualises all those stray outbursts of new music as one long journey." Spanning over two hours, the soundscapes flit from one territory to the other, the sonic ripples culminating in a medley of
beatless affairs and rave bangers, while managing to be disorienting, gloomy and poppier all at once. Stream it below -
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