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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelHyperdub
EAN5024545486520
eBay Product ID (ePID)62967133
Product Key Features
LanguageEnglish
Era2000s
Run Time3028 Sec
Release Year2007
FormatCD
FeaturesStudio Recording
GenreElectronic
TypeAlbum
StyleGarage, Dubstep
ArtistBurial
Release TitleUntrue
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Recording ModeStereo
DistributionCargo
Number of Tracks13
Country/Region of ManufactureEngland, United Kingdom
Reviews4.5 stars out of 5 -- "UNTRUE deepens and expands his emotional range....All rain-slicked bass flicker, disembodied voices, and electronic drift...", Ranked #2 in The Wire's "Top Ten Records of the Year 2007" -- "On UNTRUE, Burial emerged even more ghostly than before....Underneath the gloom was a renewed sense of warmth and intimacy.", 3 stars out of 5 -- "Texture, really, is the key here....UNTRUE forgoes meaty basslines and huge drops for a more holistic, complete approach to sound.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "UNTRUE lives in the present, its more complex moods showcasing the emotional range that marks Burial out as more than just another bloke with a computer.", "With a devastatingly effective sound palette, in which, over a constant industry of dubstep rhythms, clouds of synth billow with grainy, overwhelming toxicity, from the drains, the tenements, the skies."
Today, I have been listening to ‘Untrue’ by Burial. There was a lot of excitement about this album back in 2007, with pundits saying it would change EDM forever. They were right. Within seconds it pulled me in and kept me completely engaged for a further three repeats. I listened to it yet again after supper, this time on headphones - just amazing. It’s transcendental trip hop mixed with ambient dub, and it portrays the monochrome ordinariness of urban London life as somewhere between extraordinarily beautiful and dangerously edgy with a truly original sonic grit.
As an album, ‘Untrue’ is full of contradictions, disturbing while reassuring, bleak yet ecstatic, with pitch bended vocals in pools of echo that are just magical in their intensity. Like Banksy, nobody knows who Burial really is, but I can say that this is music of incredible reach and power which is total in its authenticity. This is one of the best electronica albums I have ever heard, and is my best find of the year so far.
A truly fantastic album.
Burial Untrue is a mixture of Abstract, Dubstep & UK Garage so worth buying if you like those styles of music. Not for a club or a dance album the album is chilled and dark something to chill out to