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Generally favorable reviews- based on 472 Ratings
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Dec 6, 2021complex, stark, tender, blurred and breathtaking. Burial has managed the impossible and improved on his faultless debut
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Feb 3, 2019A defining moment for electronic music across the board, Burial's sophomore album evokes a state of continuous bliss under grey skies.
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Dec 28, 2019
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Dec 26, 2013
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Mar 12, 2012Absolutely incredible. Burial's unique blend of dubstep and garage is further refined in his second full lenght release, conjuring up the same bleak, melancholic atmospheres but with new depth and focus. Faultless.
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Nov 29, 2013Given this a listen only a couple of days ago, I must say its an experience like no other. Burial did his thing with sampling and used it like a pro. I hope to hear a follow up to this near-masterpiece.
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May 15, 2015It is hard to skip a song on this faultless LP. Brooding, evocative and strong, a step up from his self-titled debut and a pinnacle in electronic music.
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May 17, 2021This album sounds like walking home drunk from the pub in a rainy midnight in London. The atmosphere is so cold yet so warm and inviting at the same time. Icy rhythms with surreal soundscapes and textures laced throughout its 50-minute runtime. Choppy samples and fractured and hard-hitting beats and percussive elements. Love this.
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Mar 29, 2017
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Sep 13, 2011
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Jan 4, 2012
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May 8, 2014The best ambient album of all time. Burial is a hugely unappreciated artist on the electronic scene, and this is his highest quality collection of musical pieces. I look forward to future full-length albums.
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Sep 5, 2017
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May 24, 2022
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May 9, 2020One of the best underground albums of all time. Rightful amongst the most influential electronic albums ever.
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MRDec 6, 2007like massive attack in the 90s, this is the voice of urban britain a decade later
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LuisB.Jan 10, 2008Honestly have not been able to stop listening to this album. I have forced myself to stop listening to it because I believe its becoming an obsession. Usually it might take a couple listens before I get into an album, this one from my first listen I have not been able to stop. Absolutely haunting.
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giantrootJan 19, 2008Oh Jesus. Hype? No. It's Very Greatest Album of I've Listened.
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dezv.Jan 8, 2008Very good album. If you're bored by all that lame guitarpop, folksy pretense and tuneless r&b/hiphop, this is homecoming.
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BrandonDJan 8, 2008I can understand why people wouldn't like this album, I wasn't too sure of it at first either. After a while, it definitely grew on me. Not exactly the best album of the year, but a great effort nonetheless.
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PaulMJan 9, 2008I guess either you get it or you don't. Absolutely brilliant, hypnotic, otherworldly, beautiful...
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RobH.Mar 4, 2008OK Computer is an amazing album. There is actually no filler on it. I dont know what album you listened to. And Dizzee Rascal and the Streets are both good, but Burial is better. I like RadioHead more than Burial, but Burial is deffinately some of my favorite electronic music I have ever heard.
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PureDavisJul 30, 2008Amazing!
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AdamPMar 4, 2009If this album could be any better, it would be the epitome of perfection, and I don't think I could handle that as my mind would explode.
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JayNov 30, 2007After a couple of listens I can understand the attraction. We've been waiting for something this fantastic, but, I felt some repetition in some of the layout of the songs and wanted a different slant towards the end, I WANTED MORE. A few more listens I may feel different and see the simplicity in his follow through.
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CharlesNov 30, 2007Album of the year, by far. I'm thinking I'll consider it one of the tops of the decade in a few years time. I can't remember the last time I was so obsessed and excited by an album. Awesome and beautiful.
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PeterNov 30, 2007This album deserves the hype. One of the best electronic albums I've ever heard.
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JoeH.Dec 11, 2007The amazing thing about this record is that while it sounds like nothing I've heard before, it always feels like home. Somehow, without any real lyrics to speak of, Burial's music seems to evoke countless narratives. At times heartbreaking; at others full of hope. Archangel is easily one of the best tracks of the year.
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JustinMDec 1, 2007Gorgeously nuanced dubstep. Strong contender for the best electronic record of 2007.
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BssDec 10, 2007
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ToddW.Dec 13, 2007
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MycroftW.Dec 1, 2007This is one bloody spooky dance record.
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AlanR.Dec 14, 2007Hmmm.... 13 reviews and its still 91. Looks like good taste is contagious. Don't let the prudes dull your appreciation for subtle music.
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AlexanderSDec 4, 2007A wonderful album!
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[Anonymous]Dec 5, 2007I knew Burial would do better than his first album, but I wasn't expecting something this great. Nothing is better than listening to this album late at night driving in the city. Truly beautiful soundscapes with hypnotic beats.
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LanceT.Dec 6, 2007This album is spooky and beautiful at the same time. You can listen to it while you are trying to relax or when you want to have a pick me up. It's quite wonderful.
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RodM.Dec 6, 2007fantastic!
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WesMOct 11, 2008It's like the beautifully bleak, manic depressive anti-thesis to Since I Left You by the Avalanches.
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PlatA.Jan 10, 2008Dubstup ftw
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AaronMJan 1, 2008Beautiful. Filled with all the dirt, grime, and grim lovelorn beauty of back alley London. Speaks wonders about city life away from the rich and famous.
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IanM.Jan 17, 2008Great album! I really cannot understand all the people comparing it to LCD Soundsytem and the like... "makes you want to feel like a teenager, until you remember the feelings of, a real live emotional teenager". And people say this sounds awkward and trite!!! Beautiful background music for a rainy day...
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neils.Jan 10, 2008kind of like endtroducing, timeless and selected ambient works 1 and 2 mashed together, filtered to death and served in a nice tea to someone on a comedown. i like it.
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MatheusBDec 30, 2008Very deep, touching vocals, almost angelical... put also very sad. It puts together a lot of feelings but not suitable for all places and situations. Works for me though. I loved it.
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alktothekJan 23, 2008Utterly mindblowing, sounds like the mass of oddly beautiful detritus England has become. Perhaps haters may need to upgrade sound systems/narrow perspective of what music is. All about the sub.
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ManuelPJan 8, 2008great album!
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NateBJan 8, 2008
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JeremyTJan 8, 2008
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SheaE.Jan 9, 2008I wish some of you guys could appreciate this album is as much as me. The backlash here is astonishing for such a beautiful album.
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RMJan 9, 2008
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AmsterdamFeb 15, 2008this would be a great soundtrack for a "La Haine" like movie in London!!
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DarrylMFeb 2, 2008What a great soundtrack this album would be to a film. I own Radiohead's "In Rainbows" and "OK Computer" and this album is just as mesmerizing, inventive and compelling. I am truly chuffed that all the professional critics gave it the universal acclaim it deserves. Bravo.
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AlexW.Feb 7, 2008I liked it a lot - but i prefer faster beats and to the person below who said ok computer was a good album - its not really - two good songs - karma police and the other hit the rest id just filler - god knows why it is often rated the best album ever - theirs no feelings to it! granted karma police probably is the best song ever written!
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JasonDeM.Mar 23, 2008This has been in constant rotation in my car since it came out. Very much the next step in dubstep. You will love it. PS those who don't like electronic music (Radiohead does NOT count) need not apply.
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AidanMar 27, 2008Spacey, dark, and fantastically put together. At first listen, repetitive and dull, but more was revealed on each listen. Beautifully frightening.
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josem.Apr 12, 2008Just let me tell you something. That's a masterpiece!. A wonderful Molecular Complexity!!!!!
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VeronikaS.Apr 2, 2008Absolutely marvelous
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KarolaT.Apr 4, 2008Amazing album. Something incredible.
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WarrenUMay 1, 2008Beautiful. Dubstep that is just for you.
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AgataS.Jun 16, 2008Best best best! Album that changed my life!
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AnonymousMCJul 28, 2008If you like a pragmatic, more active approach to music, listen to "Untrue" while preparing to make love, lighting up the ganja, or taking a 3am trespassing stroll through the neighbor hood. Btw, Archangel is about his dog that passed away... I cannot wait for his third tirade, claimed by himself as to be the darkest bit yet.
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EvilEdFeb 6, 2009Wish this won the Mercury instead of the boring Elbow. A good album but you tend to tire a bit from it after multiple plays.
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DaveC.Apr 7, 2009tons of scattered ideas all held together by a single emotion that meander between utter chaos and beautiful superposition.
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ElliottM.Nov 29, 2007A haunting, beautiful record and a standout of the genre. Surely one of the year's very best.
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ErikH.Nov 29, 2007Far from the best album of the year, but still a very good dubstep album.
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MacP.Nov 30, 2007Great album! It bears the sounds of the 21th century
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blak000KDec 10, 2007A solid electronica album. There are 2-3 tracks that I simply can't get enough of. If you're into more upbeat, progressive beats, then this is not for you -- it has a more relaxed tone to it. "Untrue" is something you listen to on a lazy afternoon or while cruising the road at night.
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LennyRDec 10, 2007If you have any appreciation for electronic music, this is your Physical Graffiti or Highway 61 Revisted. Those of you who are not understanding what's great about it are certainly entitled to your opinion, but anyone with any familiarity with Garage, Dub, Dubstep, or even post-Mezzanine Trip-Hop will be able to understand how perfect this album is.
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ReeDec 14, 2007Hauntingly emo and beautiful, but I'm still on the fence as to whether this is merely clever, or a true advancement in the sub-genre. Burial is almost there. I think album #3 will (hopefully) answer this question. Burial is almost there. I just cannot figure out exactly where there will be.
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AnonymousCowardDec 16, 2007
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GilC.Dec 17, 2007This is a good album, very innovative, great rhythms and a very good concept, sounds like UNKLE to me on some parts, the only thing I have to complain in that all songs begin with the same voice-pitched-echoed pattern, listen to it very closely and you'll know what I mean. Giving it the title of album of the year is exaggerated.
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IainMDec 2, 2007A great second album. atmospheric and moody. very evocative of modern day London.
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ManuelPDec 24, 2007great album!
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AlexO.Dec 4, 2007Absolutely amazing album. It's sparse but very beautiful, a truly unique song.
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ErdalG.Dec 5, 2007
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DavidADec 6, 2007A fantastic record. Max M, you are out of your mind.
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MorheilioDec 6, 2007It takes a few listens, but soon reveals itself as a brilliant album.
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k-whaleDec 7, 2007I'm in agreement with the critics thus far: Album of the year. Stunning.
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hansenp.Dec 7, 2007
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KevinSDec 8, 2007Actually, reviewers can rate an album at whatever they want to, and why? Because they can. Because they are music reviewers for publications, and you're not. And considering this is actually a far above average album that manages to capture and reimagine dubstep in some intriguing and incredibly engaging ways.
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RickWDec 9, 2007Near perfect. A groundbreaking album. This just gets better with every listen. It may not be for everyone! Why do the muppets who don't like 'repetitive beats' or 'synthesisers' buy dance music??!!!
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ScottH.Jan 10, 2008I can understand why some folks have been bashing this album. They don't get it. They're stuck in a musical rut. An open mind can appreciate the simplicity and unbelievable fluidity to the songs on Untrue. It is one of the most complete albums I've heard. From start to finish this is a great record.
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MichaelJan 10, 2008Lots of kids here. Ignore them. Great album.
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BenH.Jan 12, 2008It may be too dark for most people and not particularly danceable, but this a landmark album. Like itor not, the future of electronic music is dubstep. This album will not be forgotten!
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OkKoJan 15, 2008I think all the posts below mine are made by the same guy just because there can't be so many negative reviews in the row. As for me, I really like this album and it made my top 10 of 2007. It's dark, but in a good way and it's wonderfully mysterious and interesting. The vocal hooks used in the songs are just blissful.
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AmsJan 16, 2008This album is sublime. From start to finish it is a masterpiece. The production on it is like nothing else being done these days, the way he warps and jarrs the vocals is highly impressive. My favorite album of 2007 hands down
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MikePJan 16, 2008Amazing album. The album is great. Its trippy dubstep. Your not supposed to dance to it. Its supposed to relax you. And it served its purpose, superbly. If you don't even like the genre you shouldn't review this album.
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NickL.Jan 17, 2008
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danaJan 18, 2008Don't listen to Mike G; music can be good without being danceable or experimental. Disgusts me to be a part of the same species with alot of the people making comments here.
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JayF.Jan 18, 2008Fucking awesome. dark and atmospheric. Pussy boys won't like it tho.
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PaulS.Jan 19, 2008An amazing album. It grabs a hold of you and won't let go. A hypnotizing work of structured beauty!
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WilliamJan 19, 2008Beautiful and atmospheric. I would liken it to ambient via Brian Eno's definition if it wasn't so prone to drawing one into its own environment rather than enhancing the one it's being listened to in.
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NormF.Jan 28, 2008This music is strangely beautiful. Atmospheric and airy, but with the beat and heart of the streets. I'm not usually into this kind of electronica and stuff, but this stuff has great soul that really sets it apart.
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JonG.Jan 31, 2008People who gives negative reviews to this album, knows nothing about music. It need a lot of attention and ear to understand. I'm not sure if is the best album of 2007 but definitely is one of the best.
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JohnSJan 7, 2008
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DavidBJan 9, 2008
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WillFeb 14, 2008Why do inventive and inspiring BRITISH artists get such a hard time on this site? First The Streets, then Dizzee Rascal and now Burial. Is it because American music is so uniformed and boring as shit or do the yanks just have a poor taste in music? This is a mesmerizing album from Burial that plays as the perfect backdrop to urban living in the UK.
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RobertFeb 15, 2008
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MonikaB.Feb 29, 2008A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. piece of work! While I listen to this I float through this world :)
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JessWFeb 9, 2008
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PersonMar 2, 2008Not perfection, but it's pretty close.
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Awards & Rankings
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Burial has concocted a noir-ish sound that’s as powerful as it is atmospheric.
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What gives this album more depth is the focus, the rolling symmetry and cinema.
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That emptiness tempts a listener in, and puts you in its place--you, in a sense, step into the record’s point of view. This invitation to intimacy is a powerful move that most club music is simply incapable of.