“Combining rock ‘n’ roll’s traditional fetish for pure, unmediated feeling, with a more modern sort of artistic calculation, Burma’s music could evoke everything from the Beatles’ ecstatic run of Hamburg rock clubs in the early ’60s to the lightning-speed hard- core punk – so fast it often seemed more like avant-garde art music than rock ‘n’ roll – that was developing in the U.S. during Burma’s tenure. In this sense, Burma can be said to have blithely encapsulated punk’s overarching mission: to draw a line connect- rock rebels past and present, and, in doing so, re-imagine and re-establish the music’s anarchic condition.” — Salon.com