Burial - Untrue FLAC download

Glad I bought this record. Both the vinyl itself and the music on it are superb. The record is heavyweight, packed in a great sleeve and of course carries the best Dubstep/Garage-music my ears have ever had the pleasure of listening to. 5/5

hopefully i'm not the only who will appreciate a cassette release

Burial is a UK Garage cum Dubstep music, signed to Hyperdub record label, where the record label saw two top class critically album released one after the another. First was his self – titled album – Burial and next – Untrue.Self – Titled was the precursor for Untrue album. Elements of 2 step, UK Garage, Ambient and Dubstep used in self-titled were retained in Untrue, but obviously were experimented, juxtaposed with complimentary vocals, airy cum atmospheric vibes and burial styled drums, which gave a distinct and peculiar sound to Untrue.The album has a lot of replaybility. One might after listening to it, get the vibes of R&B music. Highly Recommended!

Burials best album , the atmospherics are more advanced and in another league to his previous releases , why the critics rave about them i have no idea , this is easily his more engaging work , this is an album that connects to your soul , This album is one of the best atmospheric albums of all time, a masterpiece that invokes the mind on journeys of emotional extremes

Burial manages to keep hold of your attention through the whole album even though there is no real climax. After you're done listening you will find yourself contemplating life and questioning your life decisions. The wide range of emotions going through your mind while listening this album are both fascinating and confronting. The artwork is great as well, really adding to the dark, mysterious vibe of the album. In my opinion the only downside is that the 2x12" does not include some of the shorter compositions as "Untitled", "Ghost Hardware", "In McDonalds" and "Dog Shelter" which are included on the CD.Edit: Dang, forgot to mention there is a 2016 Reprint available which include the "missing" tracks.

If there was a pirate radio station broadcasting from a haunted submarine, this is what it would sound like.I heart Burial.

2xLP repress incoming... including ALL the tracks from CD version

damn might buy it just for in mcdonalds... what a great track

Where does one buy this other than Bleep? In the US so would prefer to skip long shipping delays

I have it, I got one of the first 50 copies too so got the album art screen print with it too, there's no 2016 edition catalogued on here though.

such a raw record

I just would like to know why the hell it was decided (Hyperdub? Domino?) not to print some "necessary" tunes on vinyl (I'm talking about the "short pieces" In McDonalds & Dog Shelter) since there's enough physical space available on wax (eg. the end of sides A & B). I mean, look at it!I can partially understand the choice to leave apart Ghost Hardware for a separate dj-friendly release etc, but seriously, this puzzled me.Hope someone out there will realize it, go behind and make availabe on vinyl those short pieces and some other lost tunes like Fostercare!I can't content myself with mp3, and sorry if it sounds as a vent of frustration rather than a review. This album is fundamental.

Weelll, pretty sure I'm not supposed to do this, but since you asked I'll break the rules this one time. Here's the Boomkat link: https://boomkat.com/products/burial-updated-edition . The link for Untrue is right there at the bottom too. I'm on their mailing list, so I got an email with a big header about "UPDATED BURIAL RECORDS" with a whole description about how these versions include the ambient tracks that were always missing from the other vinyl versions. Says they're 180s in the description too. So happy day!

Where is it for sale? Any details about the pressing?

Your wish has been granted! The repress with the missing tracks is up for sale now!

I have sent Hyperdub many nasty emails complaining about the missing tunes from this release.

Buying burial on vinyl seems counter-intuitive to me... I mean he made the whole thing in a program similar to Audacity I believe, with shitty 160kbps samples on a broken laptop! (this could have been his first album but pretty sure it's everything of his).I'm not saying the sound quality put into the album is an issue, it's part of what gives it it's magic. But I can't see how buying the record is really going to bring out the magic of the album further than a 320 mp3??

Agreed. I'm paraphrasing/stealing something I once read about the vinyl release of William Basinski's Disintegration Loops, but there's something poetic about listening to an album that's so fundamentally based on worn-out and broken-down sound samples on a medium that's susceptible to those same natural flaws. It might apply more to The Disintegration Loops, but it's almost like every worn groove, popping scratch, and picked up dust particle is your unique and natural contribution to the album's broken-down aesthetic. I love it (clearly).

I think it enhances the experience, actually.The album already has a broken down, dusty record feeling and sound to it, but actually listening to it on vinyl enhances the experience.It's not for sound quality sake, but experiential sake.

i wish i could get this album. the track starts and you immediately think, yes that can build up to something awesome. but it doesn't build up. it stays there. it somehow manages not to get annoying though. maybe that's an achievement.

Haha I think he means he doesn't like the music, not that he can't physically obtain it.

just got repressed mate get it while it lasts!

I've been meaning to write this review for ages. There's something about Burial's music that really hits the spot emotionally for me and especially this album as the whole thing just fitted exactly in to what was going on in my life at the time when it was released. From the opening of Archangel with it's beautiful vocal cut ups and mournful strings through the next couple of tracks which sound like pure break up tinged bitterness. This album definitely helped me through that time as alongside the tracks which speak about the harder things in relationships there are also rays of sun in the form of the ambient pieces like In Mcdonalds, Dog Shelter and UK. There's something neither awake nor asleep about those tunes, definitely captures the feeling of staying awake for over 24 hours after going out raving. Falling asleep in the back garden with tunes playing after a free party or taking absolutely ages to do a simple task like getting some shopping in as you keep forgetting what you're in there for. Brilliantly emotive stuff that uses all of it's samples and musical elements perfectly.

As you can tell by the description, this pressing is mislabeled. The LP pressing of this album is also missing four tracks that are included on the CD. If you're thinking about purchasing Burial's Untrue, I strongly suggest that you get the CD version rather than the vinyl version.Just trying to help out potential buyers :)

they also rearrange the track order a bit. so that could provide an alternate listen. I'm gonna make a playlist of the LP track order and see how cohesive it sounds

On the strength of these reviews I bought this album. And even after repeated listenings it somehow does not succeed in revealing its beauty or strength. I agree an eerie atmosphere is being generated, and I would be happy with that, the rhythms are subdued, but not stereotypical. It is the vocal noodlings as the top layer I find annoying. They are too much of a bow to exactly those melismatic r'n'b mannerisms that my ears and my brain shun as the acoustic equivalent of fake emotions: too explicit to be true.This is meant to articulate a different opinion in this sea of almost unanimous appraisal. An afterthought: The enormous amount of five star ratings (even in the context of discogs being a geography visited by people very much inclined towards electronic music) surprises me. Once you bestow your five stars upon Untrue what can you do if suddenly pressed to evaluate Broke Down Engine by Blind Willie McTell?

I feel what you mean, but my take on that it's as if the producer is expressing himself through samples because he can't / doesn't dare to express them himself. Almost as if the producer cannot speak. Even when the sample comes off "untrue" (pun intended) it is because he couldn't find the words he want to say in "true" samples. This makes it even more sad combined with the atmosphere on the record. (Perhaps my imagination is too wild)

sure, similar vocal sampling was done going back thru oldskool/hardcore, but even further back into early hip hop, disco-funk, & post disco. off-key samples were more common in the past but almost always due to poor sampling. pitching a sample high up or down isn't the issue for me, personally - it's where & how often it's used, where it's placed, choice of sample, & if it's properly tuned. on Kindred, the vocals do sound clean though. the noise & crackling are part of the soundscape textures behind the vocals. at times his sampling sounds great - i.e. "Ashtray Wasp" & "Loner". this is the best release i've heard from him actually. i'm loving it.

The forced and obvious aspect of the vocal samples is a deliberate aesthetic running across the entire Hardcore Continuum (read Simon Reynolds on the subject of that) from early electro, house, hardcore right up through to the current permutation of dubstep, the 'UK Bass' sound. It's not supposed to sound real, polished or clean, the sample-feel of it is a deliberate aesthetic that, to me, sounds amazeballs. His sound gets more and more degraded, if you check his recent Kindred EP there is lots of crackle and dropouts in the recording which is deliberate. I love it.

Regarding this comment: "The enormous amount of five star ratings (even in the context of discogs being a geography visited by people very much inclined towards electronic music) surprises me."I suggest to the poster and other readers to consider this context as an explanation: Think aobut Burial's close association with dubstep: a genre created by, identified with, and loved a generation of young fans. Dubstep has a strong attraction partly based upon its rhythmical originality and relative independence from other dance-orientated genres, in much the same way as jungle/drum n bass did in the 90s. However, I think the primary cause of dubstep's attraction is the amount of media coverage it's received -from the BBC to Facebook groups- which associate it with progressive, youthful and fashionable innovation.So, remembering how Burial is deeply associated with dubstep, compare the dull majority of dubstep releases with Burial. In this context, Burial's music manifests itself as angelic manna from heaven.Thus the high ratings are explained!