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TiffanyTuneUp · 01-07-2009, 03:03 PM

Ok, so I know this might be a little late in the game - considering this album was released a little over a year ago... but I JUST found it, so glad I did!

Just listening to the record is a nomadic voyage replete with alien soundscapes that trip-hop and skip beats and seem to haunt your every step. All of this get done without a discernible genre to put it in. this is my first time listening to burial and i must say, its beautiful. i know his debut album came out to good reviews and even more press began to stir when people realized that Burial is one-man-show without an identity. No one knows who he really is. Shrouding the artist in mystery seems to lend a cooperative hand in the kind of music he produces.

If you are a fan of the decadent Sigur Ros arrangement and the fear-evoking The Knife, then Burial is the perfect cousin to the obscure haunted playhouse of indie music. (7/10)

"I like underground tunes that are true and mongrel and you see people trying to break that down, alter its nature. Underground music should have its back turned, it needs to be gone, untrackable, unreadable, just a distant light." - Burial in an interview with Hyperdub magazine

((UPDATE: "After much coverage in tabloid newspapers in the UK, speculating that Burial was either Richard D. James or Norman Cook, Burial confirmed The Independent's information and posted a picture on his Myspace page on August 5, 2008. A blog entry stated "I'm a lowkey person and I just want to make some tunes, nothing else", as well as announcing a forthcoming four-track 12", and thanking his fans for their support up to this point." - Wikipedia))

01-07-2009, 03:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
TiffanyTuneUp Groupie Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: San Francisco Posts: 9	Burial - Untrue (2007) Ok, so I know this might be a little late in the game - considering this album was released a little over a year ago... but I JUST found it, so glad I did! Just listening to the record is a nomadic voyage replete with alien soundscapes that trip-hop and skip beats and seem to haunt your every step. All of this get done without a discernible genre to put it in. this is my first time listening to burial and i must say, its beautiful. i know his debut album came out to good reviews and even more press began to stir when people realized that Burial is one-man-show without an identity. No one knows who he really is. Shrouding the artist in mystery seems to lend a cooperative hand in the kind of music he produces. If you are a fan of the decadent Sigur Ros arrangement and the fear-evoking The Knife, then Burial is the perfect cousin to the obscure haunted playhouse of indie music. (7/10) "I like underground tunes that are true and mongrel and you see people trying to break that down, alter its nature. Underground music should have its back turned, it needs to be gone, untrackable, unreadable, just a distant light." - Burial in an interview with Hyperdub magazine ((UPDATE: "After much coverage in tabloid newspapers in the UK, speculating that Burial was either Richard D. James or Norman Cook, Burial confirmed The Independent's information and posted a picture on his Myspace page on August 5, 2008. A blog entry stated "I'm a lowkey person and I just want to make some tunes, nothing else", as well as announcing a forthcoming four-track 12", and thanking his fans for their support up to this point." - Wikipedia))