New Burial EP. Everybody else is talking about it so I'd better as well

The world and their dog are falling over themselves to write some pretentious rubbish about Burial's latest EP, "Kindred". So much so that Quietus has a competition for the best Pseud's Corner entry.
http://thequietus.com/articles/07997-burial-pseud-quotes
http://www.facebook.com/questions/339833632727100/?qa_ref=ssp

Personally, my favourite quote was in the comments on the YouTube video of the middle track, "Loner".

@Gwotch Skrillex > Bural @loltrev if he's? so good, so why he can't make a proper drop hahahaha
onlyrealDubstep - 1 day ago

Which I think you'll agree pretty much sums up the state of music appreciation in early 2012, doesn't it? Or at least music appreciation on Youtube.

Meanwhile, my immediate reaction after downloading the files was "Did I get a bad rip or something? Why's there so much hiss, static and noise all over everything?" I had exactly the same problem with the two releases from Clams Casino last year; Instrumentals and Rainforest. There's clearly something going on there that's worth listening to. But it's submerged in lo-fi noise. So much so that I got a friend to throw over the uncompressed FLACs just to check but they sounded exactly as bad as my MP3s. Apparently, it's actually supposed to sound like that. At which point I go, 'wut?'

Anyway back to Burial - Kindred. If you can get past the gratuitously low production values (I'm sorry. Cheap shot!), we've apparently got to a point where Burial sounds like a bad copy of a Burial Clone copy. Which is really quite sad because for a while now there's been a gushing rush of Burial Clones some of which are really quite good. Except there's only so much drum track based on a 19th century shuttle loom, compressor hiss pump and heavily reverbed vocals that have been auto-tuned, pitchshifted, chopped and diced that you can listen to. And here we are with one last pressing from the batch of cider apples. Up to this point, you could enjoy the copies, then go back and listen to Burial and realise that he just plain did it better. He still is, but it's got to the point where this particular batch of apples has no juice left in them.

So we're left with the cliche "it sounds like a wasted post-club journey home, with the night's music still ringing in your ears"
http://thequietus.com/articles/07964-burial-kindred-hyperdub-urban-explorer
at which point I want to repeat the sentiments here. Why is so much of the music we listen to so bleak
http://thequietus.com/articles/07838-the-new-bleak
in part because it accompanies the insidious sense of 'We're all fucked' that's been steadily growing in the wake of several rounds of savage, self-interested government action.
I tried to get home, but I couldn't find the night bus stop. It's only an hour's walk if I can just walk in the right direction. Think I'll just sit here for a bit with my can of beer. So it's music to share an early Sunday morning park bench with in the heart of a financial district wasteland in a 28 days later (or Shaun of the Dead) out-take.

Yeah, that's about right, innit.3 The Wash