British Tabloid Embarks On Quest To Unmask Reclusive Dubstep Producer
Untrue, by the pseudonymous artist Burial, is heavily favored to win this year’s Mercury Prize, which is given to the best British album of a 12-month timeframe. But if Untrue should win as expected, the man behind the album will have to come out on stage and perform a song from the record–effectively revealing himself to the world and dispensing with any mystery the album might have at that point. So The Sun, not content with just showing boobs on its inside pages, is going to ruin the fun for everyone and unmask the guy before next month’s ceremony! “Conspiracy theories are rife as to who is behind the tunes, with producers NORMAN COOK and APHEX TWIN in the frame,” the paper writes, although the more savvy people who read Drowned In Sound are pooh-poohing that idea, saying that the writer only came up with the first two DJ names he could think of in the name of starting controversy. Ooh, burn!
Burial has given interviews before in which he talks about his relative secrecy in an age where people are able to find out things like the shoe sizes of their favorite celebrities:
Burial’s privacy stems from a fascination with what he describes as the “dark light” of UK club culture – enjoying music more the less you know about its makers. “I love that with old jungle and garage tunes, when you didn’t know anything about them, and nothing was between you and the tunes. I liked the mystery; it was more scary and sexy, the opposite of other music.”
Very true. But I doubt this will stop people from trying to figure out just who he (or she??) is before the Mercury’s gong is bestowed to some album. So let’s all try and one-up each other with one-man conspiracy theories about just who Burial may be.
My guess? Max Martin! After all, it’s not like he’s a stranger to disguising his forays into other genres, and this would be the ultimate punk-out of music snobs.
Help me dig up the real Burial [The Sun; HT Matos] The Sun attempt to un-mask Burial [Drowned In Sound]
