Young Death / Night Market (12")

The secret almost held: had it not been for an unfortunate Black Friday snafu in Canada, the new Burial single would have appeared this week with no announcement or lead-in before materialising in shops around the world (ours included). Anyway, you didn't really see it coming and now that it's here, it's perhaps unlike what you weren't actually expecting anyway. So what is it?

Well, it's HDB100, which (of course) indicates the 100th Hyperdub release, ten years on from the first. There seem to be a very understated design workover in the black-on-black company sleeve too. As for what's in the grooves, you know you can't do justice to Burial by describing it: you have to hear it to feel it to know it. And you know, you're likely to want it…