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After the surprise success of his self-titled, low-key debut on Hyperdub , Burial returns with an eagerly awaited follow up album, ‘Untrue’. The new record is weird soul music, hypersoul, lovingly processing spectral female voices into vaporised R&B and smudged 2step garage. Voices are blurred, smeared, pitched up, pitched down and pitch bent until their content becomes irrelevant and they whisper their saccharin sweet nothings into the void.

UNTRUE continues with the first album’s crackle drenched yearning and bustling syncopations haunted by the ghosts of rave, but also reveals some new Burial treats with a more glowing, upbeat energy. UNTRUE kicks off with the skittering 2step syncopations and vocal science of ‘Archangel’, ‘Near Dark’ and ‘Ghost Hardware’, before descending into a space of radiant divas and ambience.

While Burial’s first album was humid, suffocating and unrelentingly sad, UNTRUE is less sunless. Many of the tracks are so sweet, they become toxic, underscored by the almost geological rumbles of growling basslines. Whereas the mood of Burial’s first album was overpoweringly melancholy, its now better described as a downcast euphoria typified by the epic, muted optimism of the album’s last track ‘Raver’. Forget central heating. The radioactivity of this album is all that you’ll need to keep you warm this winter.

Tracklist:

CD

1. Untitled

2. Archangel

3. Near Dark

4. Ghost Hardware

5. Endorphin

6. Etched Headplate

7. In Mcdonalds

8. Untrue

9. Shell Of Light

10. Dog Shelter

11. Homeless

12. UK

13. Raver

2×12″

A1. Raver

A2. Etched Headplate

B1. Homeless

B2. Shell of Light

C1. Untrue

C2. UK

C3. Endorphin

D1. Archangel

D2. Near Dark

‘Untrue’ by Burial will be released on Hyperdub on November 5th, 2007.

References: http://hyperdubrecords.blogspot.com/