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Kindred (EP)

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Released
  
13 February 2012

Length
  
30:45

Release date
  
12 February 2012

Producer
  
Burial

Recorded
  
2011

Artist
  
Burial

Genre
  
Dubstep

Label
  
Hyperdub

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Kindred (2012)
  
Truant / Rough Sleeper (2012)

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Kindred is the fifth extended play by British electronic music producer Burial. It was digitally released on 13 February 2012, with a vinyl release following on 12 March 2012. The EP was met with praise, with Metacritic assigning an averaged score of 88 out of 100 based on 17 reviews from mainstream critics.

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In 2013, Neil Blomkamp's film Elysium featured the song "Loner". Terrence Malick's 2015 film Knight of Cups featured the song "Ashtray Wasp".

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Critical reception

Kindred received overwhelmingly positive acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic (a review aggregator site which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 from music critics), based on 17 critics, the album has received a score of 88/100, which indicates "universal acclaim". Pitchfork noted that Kindred "pretty much breaks every Burial precedent there is", calling it "a convenient slap in the face, a wake up call. Never before has his music possessed this much majesty, this much command, this much power: The pathos here has moved from sympathetic to completely domineering." NME wrote that "all the highfaluting talk is justified: the EP’s title track is a 12-minute depth-charge that crackles and fizzes dangerously, imbued with the same knife-edge tension you feel when trekking across London at night."

Songs

1Kindred11:26
2Loner7:29
3Ashtray Wasp11:45

References

Kindred (EP) Wikipedia