Adam Michael Kozak occupies a very specific space in the world of electronic music. As Burial Grid, Adam has put out a series of buzzing, ethereal, and at times claustrophobic electronic albums that were windows into his own psyche. Dealing with tragedy, fear, his own personal and emotional struggles, as well as looking the decline of the world around him with starkly honest and unblinking eyes.
Despite that sounding way too heavy for regular consumption Kozak does it in a way that allows for easy digestion. Burial Grid’s music has a modern sound to it. It’s hard to lump him into “imagined soundtrack” or “Berlin School”. Burial Grid’s music is more Reznor-adjacent, with touches of 80s electronic; from electro pop to scuzzy industrial Adam Kozak’s music feels relevant and the furthest thing from derivative of anything.
In 2021 Burial Grid self-released the ambient-heavy Shores of Quiddity. It was an album made with the purpose of quieting the panicky mind; electronic tomes to put the psychological fires out at 3 am as you lie in bed and soak in dread. It left the industrial heft and emotional shrapnel of We’ve Come For Your Flesh in a smoldering pile outside the studio door and instead attempted to create a sonic salve for those psychic burns.
At the time Kozak had said there was a sister album coming as a follow-up to Shores of Quiddity. 2022 saw the release of Music For No Tomorrow on label Werra Foxma, but still no sister record to Shores. But now that album has arrived, or will arrive on October 31st, 2023. Yes, Burial Grid is releasing a new album on Halloween. That album is Waves of Quietus, and from the first two singles it sounds like it’s going to be another stunner from Burial Grid.
Waves Of Quietus is being released on vinyl as well as digital and is available now for preorder. Adam Kozak has just released a video for single “A Derangement of the Senses” and both the song and video are stunning and relevant. The song wobbles and wavers like synapses in a dying brain firing its last bits of neurons before the lights go out. A mind going through a life’s worth of memories and moments before the world dissolves for good. The video is a series of web pages slipping and sliding from our vision, like a person desperately scrolling at 2 am through Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter searching for something – anything – to buoy us onto some sort of reality where we’re not so damn alone and scared.
The video is quite brilliant and has the feel of a Black Mirror episode, and of course the song is brilliant. It encapsulates that feeling of desperate doom scrolling; musically painting the agony and ecstasy of looking for an organic connection in a synthetic Hell right at our fingertips.
Burial Grid’s ‘Waves of Quietus’ arrives 10/31 and will be available on Bandcamp, both on vinyl and digital. You can preorder the album now right here.
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