Burial on Sam Cooke

I really liked this quote from the unedited interview with producer Burial, the abridged version recently published in the wire:

I don’t know anything about this kind of music, but I love Sam Cooke. I don’t know what it was about his songs, but he’d have some songs, and things on the surface were normal or happy, he’d be singing about having a party, there’s cokes in the iceboxes or whatever, and everything’s glowy, but underneath, it’s like he’s talking about something else, the last party on earth. Something in his voice. I’d rather do something like that than some icy cold electronic music, to try and get a bit of that in it. Because when something’s glowing, if something’s nice, it doesn’t mean that it’s not surrounded by cold things, bad things.

The album 'Untrue' really deserves a listen.

original link to the unedited wire interview: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/347/