Another completely marvellous Burial interview, this time by mark k-p.

This one is especially lucid about how he makes tunes: on the one hand, the emphasis on just knocking them out, going quickly, hardly giving yourself time to think; on the other, “[t]he thing I love about M R James, it’s almost like you learn a lesson off the stories, which is to be obsessed with a similar kind of effect until you get it right, because you’re basically circling similar ideas”. Every time I’ve had a period of high creativity, when music or poetry or whatever just keeps coming and you feel confident enough to just throw things away because you know there’s more where that came from, it’s been like that. Trying and failing to write a PhD was, needless to say, the opposite of being like that. Trying to write a book, well, I’m trying to keep it like that…