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Epicurus.com - Untrue
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List Price: $17.98
Our Price: $13.99
Your Save: $ 3.99 ( 22% )
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Manufacturer: Hyperdub Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5024545486520
Label: Hyperdub Records
Manufacturer: Hyperdub Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Hyperdub Records
Release Date: 2007-11-06
Studio: Hyperdub Records
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Editorial Reviews:
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2007 sophomore release from the UK's mysterious and much-acclaimed Burial. Of all the artists past and present who claim to let their music do their talking for them, Untrue, is a record of weird Soul music, which lovingly processes spectral female voices into vaporized R&B and smudged two-step garage. Vocal lines are blurred, smeared, pitched up pitched down and pitch bent until their content is cast adrift from their original context and they whisper their saccharin sweet nothings into the void. Forget central heating -- the radioactivity of this album is all that you'll need to keep you warm this winter.
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Summary: Blues for the next millenium
Comment: Burial is coming out of nowhere. He's publicity-shy, he's not touring and he concerns himself primarily with his beats. The palette is parsimonious: all is very sparse, but it never feels bare or cheap. Clearly, there are lots of influences here. Whereas the previous album was a nice crossover of dub, Drum & Bass, and Boards of Canada (!?), this one has an almost trance and garage feeling with eurotrash voices coming from another planet. There are echoing synthesizers that seem lifted from AFX Ambient Classic II and early Autechre (say, Garbage). The album is infectious and almost danceable (again, in a different planet). But the best thing about Burial is that his sound is instantly recognizable. It is original, honest. Given the intimate lyrics and melancholic mood, I would classify this as a Blues album for the next millenium.
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Comment: Is it possible to do justice to this album? Truly an awesome piece of music that manages to be emotive, exciting, mellow, dark and melancholic (in true Burial style) all at once. Near Dark is simply stunning, woodblocks, dark rave stabs running around in the back, and a vox admitting to envy. Archangel has elements not unlike Rhythm and Sound, but nothing like them, too. More darkness and vox. The entire album is the work of a genius. I didn't think it would be possible to top South London Boroughs; so, eh, what do I know?
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Summary: Not 2 B Missed!
Comment: Nothing I have listened to in 2008 comes anywhere close to this. Burial's sound is murky, dark, ethereal, any other words that could describe your favorite rainy day. Somehow this music breaks down the beautiful, tender side of being human. It makes me feel vulnerable. I have never had music evoke such emotion. This may be dubstep, but it is a masterpiece by any stansdard in any genre
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Summary: Somewhat insubstantial mood record
Comment: In terms of atmosphere and feeling, Burial's "Untrue" is everything the reviewers here have said: a cry of loneliness and despair from the empty, dark, cold, rain-soaked streets of some massive urban metropolis. As many have said, it also feels intensely personal and intimate, unlike the rather alienated, mechanical feel of a lot of electronica these days. As a backdrop for nostalgic, mournful thought, there is nothing better...
And as long as your mind stays pre-occupied in such a way, you'll never realize you're listening to an extremely repetitive record that fails to change, evolve, or explore a lot of the possibilities and directions he could have taken with the chosen theme. I believe Burial was trying to make a thematically consistent album (he even uses the same warped vocal samples in multiple tracks sometimes), but took it a bit too far. If you listen to this album enough times, you'll be able to tell the tracks apart, but there is little to no stylistic variation.
The production style is interesting, although I can't say whether it's been done before by someone else, since I'm not familiar with much "dubstep". He doesn't really try to create a "spacious" feel or a cohesive audio environment, but rather opts to remind the listener of several familiar sounds at once: Snowy TV screens, rain hitting the windshield of the car, distorting the golden glow of the streetlights as you drive through the night...
Overall, I understand both the positive and negative reviews of this album. I'd say, if this sounds like the kind of mood record you're in the mood for, buy it, but realize you're getting an album with pretty much no variation. For me, sometimes it's a 5, sometimes it's more like a 3... making my final rating a solid 4 stars.
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Summary: Heartbreakingly intimate
Comment: This is one of the best albums I have ever heard. It is a hauntingly embracing work of art. Each track is essential to the whole experience of the album, and you'll find yourself needing to hear it again and again and again...
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