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Burial
Electronic · 2006 · 13 tracks

Burial

Submerged, rain-slicked UK garage and dubstep built from vinyl crackle, ghostly R&B vocal fragments, and skeletal, off-grid drum patterns.

May 15, 2006 · Hyperdub

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Rainwater pooling on South London asphalt and the hiss of a dying campfire find their way into the skeletal, off-grid swing of this debut, which permanently shifted the gravity of the UK underground. By pulling the hyperactive energy of garage down into a nocturnal, half-submerged dub space, these tracks perfected a new language of urban isolation. You are placed inside a lonely, late-night transit, guided only by pitch-shifted vocal ghosts and the crackle of dusty vinyl. It transformed anonymous bedroom production into a sacred, rain-slicked sanctuary, proving that electronic music could feel as intimate and bruised as a diary entry.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks
01
[Burial intro]
0:36
02
Distant Lights
5:27
03
Spaceape
4:02
04
Wounder
4:52
05
Night Bus
2:14
06
Southern Comfort
5:02
07
U Hurt Me
5:23
08
Gutted
4:43
09
Forgive
3:08
10
Broken Home
5:05
11
Prayer
3:45
12
Pirates
6:11
13
[Burial outro]
0:55
Moments Worth Listening For
02Distant LightsThe skeletal, pitch-shifted vocal loop on 'Distant Lights' slips in and out of the mix like a fading memory.
09ForgiveThe beatless, drifting synth pads on 'Forgive' strip away the percussion entirely to create a suspended moment of ambient grief.
04WounderThe rhythmic engine of 'Wounder' skips with a loose, human imperfection that avoids rigid computer grid alignment.
Reviews
Tiny Mix Tapes5/ 5
Stylus MagazineB+
Collective4/ 5
The Guardian5/ 5 stars
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Pitchfork8.0/ 10
AllMusic4/ 5 stars
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Resident Advisor4.5/ 5
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The Observer4/ 5 stars
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How does Burial sound next to the rest of Burial's catalogue?

Melancholic+1.2σ

The record plunges into a profoundly lonely atmosphere that transforms the music into a solitary, rain-slicked walk through empty London streets at three in the morning.

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