Burial – Untrue Review
Burial is an anonymous musician from the UK that has been making some noise with his release “Untrue” late in the year. On Metacritic it stands as the best album of the year and many publications have announced it as the top album of the year. Due to this, like usual I tend to check out what’s all the fuss about.
Burial has done some interviews but his identity is still unknown. Pretty mysterious but it gives off a cool aura about it.
Some things of note, Burial is a dubstep musician, basically a genre used by some musicians. I would probably call dubstep a subgenre of electronica. Also Burial’s music is made using SoundForge. I am not quite sure I would’ve liked to know that as a computer doesn’t seem like a instrument (but lots of artists do this so whatever).
Beginning with “Untrue’, I played it multiple times, trying to see what I thought. Every time though, I had a different experience. At one point I was enlightened and I wanted to give this album a great rating. Other times I struggled to listen to it and usually moved onto other artists and songs. One thing to blame and looking at was I that I had a different experience with the album when switching to my laptop from my desktop PC. I was listening to previous on my desktop which had an awesome to go along with some decent subwoofer and really brought out the bass and the rhythm, when my laptop returned I couldn’t hear as much with it and it paled in comparison.
Okay back to the music. Burial’s Untrue is weird. For me I have not listened to anything like it (I’m an electronic noob). It’s feels like minimalistic electronica (that probably wouldn’t sell if it was called that). “Untrue” is very quiet, giving off an eerie vibe that can send chills down your back. One thing I find incorrect about a lot of the publishers are saying, is that this album is catchy and hooks in you. I find this a rather difficult album to listen to and you definitely have to be in the mood for it. The music doesn’t grab my attention, it’s something more of background music with the repetitive lyrics and the bass heavy beats. It’s supposed to be more simple and some have found greatness in it. When forcing myself to sit through the album it’s great but when going through one track or so I feel no connection as to why this would be good.
Overall, this album is GOOD. However, to me it’s not as good as it’s made out to be via the hype (at least to me). It gets a 4 out of 5 from me.
This album I really believe will have polarized opinions. I don’t find it the best of the year by any means and it’s something I definitely know I can hate but like at the same time. I would recommend downloading this album before purchasing it and see how it is for you.
This is my favorite track off the album:
Untrue by Burial
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