Untrue

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Untrue
Burial studio album

Publication
(s)

November 5, 2007

Label (s) Hyperdub

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Dubstep , Future Garage , Ambient , 2 Step

Title (number)

13

running time

50:28

production

William Emmanuel Bevan

chronology
Burial
(2006) 		Untrue -
Single release
June 14, 2007 Ghost hardware

Untrue is the second studio album by British music producer Burial . It was released in November 2007 on the Hyperdub label . The album had a huge impact on the creation of the dubstep genre. The pop critic Simon Reynolds described Untrue 2017 as the "most important album of electronic music of the 21st century."

background

Burial aka William Emmanuel Bevan produced Untrue between 2006 and 2007 on a computer with Sony's SoundForge audio editor . The album consists mainly of samples that Burial reworked, for example in tempo and pitch or amplified with reverb . He also used loops , fuzz and phaser effects and added the crackling of turntables . Burial obtained samples from R&B songs (including Usher , Aaliyah , Beyoncé ), video games ( Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty , Silent Hill 3 ) and films ( Inland Empire , Alien 3 ), but also YouTube clips.

Untrue is assigned to the genres Dubstep and UK Garage , music journalists also drew comparisons with Ambient , Jungle , Drum and Bass , Trip-Hop and 2 Step in order to describe Burial's music, which is often considered emotional and atmospheric as well as “spooky”, “melancholic "And" nebulized "and brought in connection with the aesthetic concept of Hauntology (after Derrida ). Burial cited the British rave scene and garage musician Todd Edwards as influences.

The download and CD versions of Untrue include 13 tracks, on LP it was initially released as a 12 ″ double album with only 9 tracks and a running time of 39 minutes. It wasn't until 2016 that Hyperdub released the album entirely on vinyl.

Track list

CD version:

  1. Untitled - 0:46
  2. Archangel - 3:58
  3. Near Dark - 3:54
  4. Ghost Hardware - 4:53
  5. Endorphin - 2:57
  6. Etched headplate - 5:59
  7. In McDonalds - 2:07
  8. Untrue - 6:16
  9. Shell of Light - 4:40
  10. Dog Shelter - 2:59
  11. Homeless - 5:20
  12. UK - 1:40
  13. Raver - 4:59

LP version:

  1. Archangel - 3:58
  2. Near Dark - 3:54
  3. Homeless - 5:20
  4. Shell of Light - 4:40
  5. Raver - 4:59
  6. Etched headplate - 5:59
  7. Untrue - 6:16
  8. UK - 1:40
  9. Endorphin - 2:57

reception

source rating
Allmusic
The Guardian
Spin
Pitchfork Media
Laut.de

Untrue is considered a style-defining album of contemporary electronic music, which influenced numerous DJs and genre representatives such as Jamie XX or Mount Kimbie . In 2008 it was nominated for the Mercury Prize .

The magazine Rolling Stone chose Untrue ranked 11th of the 30 best EDM -albums all time. Pitchfork ranks it 41st of the 200 best albums of the 2000s and 10th of the 50 best albums of 2007. It is ranked 9th in the Guardian's annual list . The Musikexpress selected Untrue as 12th of the 50 best albums of the new millennium. In the list of 300 best albums from the period 1985 to 2014, the magazine Spin the album ranked No. 39. The newspaper Telegraph took Untrue on in a selection of "50 Amazing Album You've Probably Never Heard". The album's metascore is 90 out of 100 possible points.

Untrue reached number 58 on the British album charts .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Simon Reynolds: Why Burial's Untrue Is the Most Important Electronic Album of the Century So Far on pitchfork.com (accessed March 1, 2018)
  2. ↑ a b Burial: Unedited Transcript on thewire.co.uk (accessed March 1, 2018)
  3. ↑ a b Review by Matthias Manthe on Laut.de (accessed on March 1, 2018)
  4. ↑ Burial: Samples on whosampled.com (accessed March 1, 2018)
  5. ↑ a b Maike de Buhr: 10 Years Burial - "Untrue" on wdr.de (accessed on March 1, 2018)
  6. ↑ Gareth Grundy: Albums of the decade No 10: Burial - Untrue on theguardian.com (accessed March 1, 2018)
  7. ↑ Olaf Karnik: Ghosts of the Past on nzz.ch (accessed December 12, 2019)
  8. ↑ Mark Fisher: The Metaphysics of Crackle - Afrofuturism and Hauntology, in: Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture 5/2013, pp. 42-55.
  9. ↑ Review by Jason Birchmeier on Allmusic.com (accessed March 1, 2018)
  10. ↑ Review by Dorian Lynskey on TheGuardian.com (accessed March 1, 2018)
  11. ^ Review by Joe Gross, in: Spin 2/2008 p. 92.
  12. ↑ Review by Philip Sherburne on Pitchfork.com (accessed March 1, 2018)
  13. ↑ The 30 Greatest EDM Albums of All Time on rollingstone.com (accessed March 1, 2018)
  14. ↑ The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s on pitchfork.com (accessed March 1, 2018)
  15. ↑ The 50 Best Albums of 2007 on pitchfork.com (accessed March 1, 2018)
  16. ↑ 2007: The best 50 albums on theguardian.com (accessed March 1, 2018)
  17. ↑ 2000-2015: The 50 best albums of the new millennium on musikexpress.de (accessed on March 1, 2018)
  18. ↑ The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985-2014) on spin.com (accessed December 12, 2019)
  19. ↑ 50 amazing albums you've probably never heard on telegraph.co.uk (accessed March 1, 2018)
  20. ↑ Metascore: Burial - Untrue on metacritic.com (accessed March 1, 2018)