Stream: Pablo Dylan, ‘Burial of the Dead’

Kevin Bronson on February 7th, 2020

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There’s a justifiable urgency coursing through “Burial of the Dead,” the new single from 24-year-old singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Pablo Dylan. “Fear no more the winter’s rage,” Dylan sings, mashing up a couplet from a song in Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline” (“Fear no more the heat o’ the sun / Nor the furious winter’s rages”).

While the Bard had mortality on his mind, Dylan is concerned with other demises. “‘Burial of the Dead’ is about the death of intellectualism and the onset of materialism in society today,” he says.

The single is the first from Dylan’s debut full-length, “Notes From Columbia,” due Feb. 21. It’s the follow-up to his first EP, “The Finest Somersault,” work that saw the artist, who grew up immersed in music and the arts, charting his course as a folk-rocker. In his teen years, Dylan had worked in hip-hop, earning credits for collaborations with the likes of Erykah Badu, A$AP Rocky, OG Maco, D.R.A.M. and Brent Faiyaz.

Dylan’s album release will be followed by a 28-date U.S. tour that begins March 1 and ends April 11 in Los Angeles.

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