Burial drops the mask

Burial's profile picture on his myspace has changed to one of, presumably, himself (see above). This mugshot doesn't come as that much of a shock - it's kind of exactly as we'd imagined him - but surely it threatens to dim his music's special aura? I mean, wasn't Burial meant to be a ghost or something? Or perhaps the mystery surrounding his identity had actually begun to detract from the purity of the music? That's the implication of yesterday's blog post, which is entitled 'Tunes': for a while theres been some talk about who i am , but its not a big deali wanted to be unknown because i just want it to be all about the tunes.over the last year the unknown thing become an issue so im not into it any more.im a lowkey person and i just want to make some tunes, nothing else. my names will bevan, im from south london, im keeping my head down and just going to finish my next album, theres going to be a 12" maybe in the next few weeks too with 4 tunes. hope u like it, i'll try put a tune up latersorry for any rubbish tunes i made in the past, ill make up for ita big big thank you to anyone who ever supported me, liked my tunes or sent me messages, it means the world to mebig up everyone, take care, will ( burial ). So there you go. Not Aphex, not Cook, not Kode9 and not Goldie, just a sound-seeming bloke from South London called William Bevan (meaning that this was true after all, and the speculation that he’d deliberately credited himself as a funeral director or a dead man – hence the name Burial – was merely that). in fact magazine