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Antidawn is an EP by British electronic musician Burial, released 6 January 2022 via Hyperdub.[8]

Antidawn
EP by Burial
Released	6 January 2022
Genre	Ambient sound collage
Length	43:30
Label	Hyperdub
Burial chronology
Chemz / Dolphinz (2021) Antidawn (2022) Streetlands (2022)

Antidawn ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.9/10[1]
Metacritic	81/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Beats Per Minute	90%[4]
Clash	9/10[5]
Crack	8/10[6]
Loud and Quiet	8/10[7]
NME	[8]
Pitchfork	7.3/10[9]
PopMatters	8/10[10]

Composition

Antidawn is a collection of beatless ambient music, cementing the direction that Burial had taken since his late 2010s work,[3] and was his most ambient work yet.[11] The tracks have unconventional structures and focus on distorted vocal samples and crackles, combining into a "loose, amorphous soundscape".[12] Tom Kingsley of Clash Music wrote that Burial's only previous track "that comes close" to Antidawn was the 2021 B-side "Dolphinz".[12] Resident Advisor reviewer Emeka Okonkwo described it as a release of "spectral, wintery ambient sound-collages" and compared it to previous Burial tracks "Rival Dealer" and "Beachfires".[11] For Loud and Quiet critic Luke Cartledge, the EP is a "familiar blend of rainy, minor-key textures and forlorn-sounding field recordings".[7] "New Love" is the only track to contain percussive elements, although they are vague and distant.[12]

Kingsley compared the music to the KLF's Chill Out (1990) due to their use of collage "as a way to convey a sense of movement, not only through space (“all the way down the East Coast”) but through time" and for their use of musique concrète, "piecing together functional, everyday sounds – the strike of a lighter, coughs and muffled voices, metallic clangs – to create something totally otherworldly."[12]

Track listing

References

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