Untrue
by Burial

The single greatest document in the most important UK dance movement of the new millennium. Burial straddles the analogue/digital line perfectly, crafting haunting, hazy memories of songs you think you may have heard in a past life. This is the sound of the nightbus after the club, songs in the form of answerphone messages soundtracking the council tower blocks and electricity pylons passing by the window on your way home. It's the sound of losing sunday to ketamine with your closest mates, and for many of my age it's the sound of sleep. How the fuck can you better a man who created the sound of sleep? Thefuckouttaherewithatshit.

turn off the lights put on a good par of headphones shut your eyes and immerse yourself in one of the most unique atmospheres you will ever hear

From Boltzmann TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/15/2018 01:03 | #221074 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Good ass electronic music. “Dubstep”? As long as Public Enemy and Outkast are both “hip hop”, this is just “electronic music”. You can more easily praise an album that introduced a new style within a genre (can’t even call this a subgenre really, just a mix of trip hop and ambient) if that style is categorized as if it’s a genre. “Outkast and Dr. Dre really changed hip hop” sounds a lot less of a big deal than “Burial really defined the sound of dubstep”. The labels we give to music as “genres” often just serve the biases of the majority. Not that there is a problem with categorizing music, but you have to do it well. (Edited)

From Strangel TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/07/2017 00:29 | #187055 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

This was my first exposure to Burial's music. After seeing it mentioned so often in the year after its release as being a defining album in electronic/dubstep music. I listened to it distantly at first, in the background, as I carried on with other household stuff. My first impression was a bit 'meh', I wasn't a big fan of R&B vocals and it seemed to be choc full of it. And the electronic beats were so subtle that they didn't have much of an impact on me. But I persevered, knowing that you must give good music time to seep in, and surely all those experts weren't wrong. Of course it was the headphones that took me there eventually. The vocals were, in fact, used ingeniously, taking snippets of cut samples that melded into the layers of electronica perfectly. And those subtle beats were actually like a painter's brush strokes that required close observance to appreciate the art. I never looked back after this and much of his best work appears on EPs which makes it hard to know where to place them in the scheme of GOAT lists. But Untrue is a pure album that has no fillers and it thoroughly deserves to be recognized as one of the GOAT albums.

ALBUM HIGHLIGHT: Each song has it's own argument for being the highlight of the album but I think Archangel best encapsulates the feel of Untrue .

This is what dubstep was before becoming mainstream music. It was dark, emotional, unusal, full of studied sounds and very interesting rhythms. Burial will ever be remembered as the grand master of this music genre.