Customer Reviews
This is not music....this is pure and raw emotion on a CD - By: Mr. T. Jutla, 04 Oct 2008 
Im not really one for Dubstep & to be frank, Dubstep annoys me a little. However, one day this guy Burial comes along & changed my life. In a world of changing emotions one often needs a medium to "escape" as it were from life & the crap that comes with it. This is where Burial steps in.
This is quite possibly the finest bit of musical work to ever be made. Its not your orthodox album, it needs to be heard from track 1 to track 13 allin one go. As someone else posted earlier, this is seriously a night bus album. Burial infuses his trademark 2-step sounds with haunting melodies & a cracklingin the background that makes this piece work ever more haunting....
Why am i going on? Bloody buy this...when your pissed off or need to escape from everything, go for a walk at 12am at night or sitin your room smoking a bud, put this on & youll know what im talking about...
Aural Art - By: R. E. Wilkinson, 21 Sep 2008 What can be said that has not already been said, modern art for a modern age. Understated, beautifully crafted soundtrack of so many lives. What I liked about it most... no flashy inserts, lyrics or politics or just two words: THANK YOU. A class artist.
Buried interpretation - By: S. Hall, 12 Sep 2008 This album is an enigma. Despite it's 2-step rhythms & broken samples, the soundscape is too haunting & soul-searching to be consideredin any of the plastic categories netted over Drum & Bass producers today. Burial stands apart from any of his peers & turns over the under belly & sheds light on the ego behind contempory Britain, it's rave culture, it's hedonistic head-first run & denial. It whispers self-contempt, loneliness & isolation. But overall, It's here for interpretation. A genuinely absorbent listen that will leave you at nothing less than thoughtful & absolved.
Atmospheric beats and vocal loops - By: Dr Andrew McLellan, 11 Sep 2008 
Reminds me of a number of bands I used to listen to on the Warp label - Seefeel, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada - & none the worse for that. Also sounds like a direct descendent of Eno's early ambient works. Not sure where the dubstep label comes from but this is a mighty fine piece of work. I rarely listen to contemporary bands but heard a short clip of this on the Mercury Award show & was impressed enough to part with my cash. Certainly not disappointed. Love the way it reverbs around my flat & creates its own atmosphere.
Hmmmmm...disapointed - By: Mr. David J. Hood, 01 Sep 2008 
I'm a lover of dark music. I don't know much about Burial, but from what I'd heardin reviews & comment, I really thought this would work for me. I went for Untrue because it seems to have generated the most chatter; highly positive chatter at that.
Well, what can I say? Hugely disapointed & underwhelmed. Firstly; the drum palette is practically the same throughout the entire record. As are the crackles on every track, the same synths, the same swells of white noise. etc. Practically EVERY track feels the same. The drum programming is minimal, opting for pretty much just a repetitive loop, no fills, no frills. The album kind of sounded like an ambient record with some half-arsed beats thrown over the top (there's one track where the loop sounds broken, slightly off, I'm sure it's intentional, but it does not work for me at all - it just irritated me). I can't imagine for one minute this record took very long to make, as it sounds as though he started with the same ingredients & just re-arranged them slightly for the 13 different tracks. Perhaps I'm a little ignorant of the genre. But I know dark; I grew up on drum & bass; the early darkcore; breaks - I'm no heathen to the sound. I wanted this album to be awesome, butin the end it was just a bit boring.
Shame.
