Seriously if you haven't heard the samples yet go here immediately and check them out:
www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=56124

Heard most of the promo at Soul Jazz over the weekend and I can feel this one is going to be a classic. In a world full of soulless minimal releases and increasingly formulaic dubstep this is absolutely necessary! Too f!@# excited for this!

I cant wait for this.

Mary anne hobbs is having a special preview of the album tonight on radio 1

heres what she says

TONIGHT!!

the BBC Radio1 show moves to the new time slot..
TUESDAY night >> WEDNESDAY morning.. 2-4am

i have a the world exclusive preview of the new ***BURIAL*** album 'Untrue' due out on Hyperdub on November 5th.. 17 tracks in 15 minutes mixed by Kode 9..

it is without question the most wonderful mosaic of sound i have ever heard in my whole life.. spread the word...

i'll also be announcing the line-up for BLOC WEEKENDER exclusively on the show..

Yep... all eyes on Burial... will be a hard album to follow up, but his intervening releases have been pretty solid, so it should be good bet.

looking forward to it...

ditto... should be class

Must get this

this is going to be HUGE. :]

this record is a rain-dance unto itself. brilliant.

Love it !

^ interesting... i always picked you for a minimal girl Marion

He's also done a great remix of Bloc Party's Where is Home... you can get it here:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/48826926ae61d7/

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minimal shminimal

its all about the techno baby!!

minimal techno then....

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And a bit of PVD

honestly played this album so much since getting it... cannot be disappointed with this baby!

It took a while to get the review up but its basically what I expected. This is the best album of 2007 for me by miles and miles...Too amazing. Everyone should own it.

great review Chris... puts into perspective what ive been feeling about this album over the last few weeks

my album of the year also

FUCH that man this albuym sux bigtime i have been listening it for one whole week now and i haven found anything that brilliant in it.
PLUS album of the year is already mirorred from the battles followed by chromophobia

Fully agree...in particular I think Burial's use of film quotes is some of the best out there. Gives goosebumps sometimes! I actually like the homogeneity of this album and the self-titled, as you can just kind of wallow in them from start to finish without breaking the mood. And btw, is it clear Burial is a guy? For all I knew his/her identity is a mystery...it could be Mary Anne Hobbs for all we know.

got my vote.

dude is INCREDIBLE.

...or she is INCREDIBLE.

'Raver' really creeps me out...but still, Burial's work is top class. If you are reading this, Burial, I salute you!

I have to admit that this album really doesn't do it for me the way the first one did. Dunno it just seems really flat but maybe needs more listening... I loved the way the first album flowed, particularly the way that 'Southern Comfort' comes in as something a bit different. This one didn't have that degree of texture to it, I felt. Which is a shame.

although the sound and atmosphere is much like the first cd, i think this one is more emotional and deep...maybe because after the first cd i'm more confortable with this one-in-a-million style, and can give in to it more. I love it, most original electronic piece of sound in the last couple of years.

A true force: anybody with a soul will feel most alive listening to Burial ;-)

Album of the year for me. Love it.

Completely agree with Chris Mann's review of 'Untrue'.I think this record is a landmark for British music in the same way that 'Unknown Pleasures' was.Joy Division's record has certainly stood the test of time and Burial's will do also.
This record is dark , soulful , icily beautiful yet rhythmic and immensely listenable and unlike a lot of hyped music deserves every accolade it receives.

My record of the year as well. Did not feel this since BOCA 's "Music has the right.."

ace review.

"untrue" has a strange and curious quality that keeps me mesmerized from beginning to end..

Yes, Yes and Yes. Spot on Review - Great album. Seriously innovative and a breath of fresh air.

Good subtle variation across the disc - flows well too.

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Yes, Yes and Yes. Spot on Review - Great album. Seriously innovative and a breath of fresh air.

Good variation across the disc - flows well too.

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Proxy robot auto response?

Been dipping in and out of this since reading the review. Not usually a huge dubstep fan, but this is good. Credit.

According to metacritic this is the 11th highest rated album of all time... It's a damn good album though and I normally hate dubstep.

Essential, beautiful music.

apparently - the best relese of the year
magnificent and wonderful!

Really a step forward from the first LP, which was an incredible release in its own right. This really cements Burial as one of the most original and distinctive producers today, dubstep or otherwise. BIG!

overhyped as i see it.. although Burial is no doubt innovative and sincere producer doing great job, there's nothing groundbreaking about new album anymore // actually, Boxcutter's new workout was much more of a surprise and touched me deeper than this. period

very pure

epic album

Good Album !!!!

My pick for the album of the year too.

Wonderful

It's a really relaxing album, but to me Underwater Dancehall would be this year's winner. I keep getting the impression that most tracks on Untrue are a variation on a single theme, no doubt due to this little vocal that keeps turning up everywhere.

It's a good album but there's not enough variation. The beats sound similar throughout. If I were really nasty I'd say it sounds a bit like Enigma for the 21st century.

One of the best albums of the last 10 years.

Solid album. But, fuck me, it's over-rated. And not a patch on his debut.

So I'm not the only one who thinks Untrue is way over- rated. Awesome. I think Burial himself has said it's not his best foot forward. The debut was mind blowing. This is just sort of mind numbing.

This review was a definite solid piece though; very thought provoking comment about the new folk music for Britain, which makes me wonder: What exactly constitutes folk music now a days if we are to consider heavily processed computer music alongside traditional analogue and live instrumental stuff? In other words, can electronic music be considered folk when its not as deeply grounded in localized musical traditions as say a Pogues tune or an early Bob Dylan hymn? If Burial counts, then I would say all of hiphop-dom from Public Enemy and the Fat Boys to Masta P and Lil Wayne can also call themselves folk artists. Anyway, just a thought. If it's locale that limits the definition of folk music, and we buy the traditional history of techno's birth pouring out of gay, middle class, african american clubs in Detroit, then techno too is in a way originally a folk music tradition. I would argue as a genre electronic music in general constitutes a new kind of folk music for in our world of globalization, the internet, and cultural integration and cross-breeding.

This blog strand is old as hell now by blog standards, so I'll probably never hear anybody else commenting on the above, but it'd be great to get other readers thoughts on neo-folkism.

I think what you said is what is on many of our minds. The term 'folk' music may often be applied to traditional music, but of course the true meaning is something more in the sense of 'music for the people'. Now if you look at the masses coming together at festivals, as well as the entire international online community focusing on the various forms of (electronic) music, I reckon it'd be pretty hard to deny that this music too is for the people. Villalobos with his Fizheuer release, as well as Samim's Heater do a fine job connecting those dots as well!

it's good but it's not that fucking good pure hype if you buy this album your an idiot download it for free and understand that its all hype as is all of dubstep

ohhhhhhh my

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it's good but it's not that fucking good pure hype if you buy this album your an idiot download it for free and understand that its all hype as is all of dubstep

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Idiot.

It isn't really dubstep, is it? More dub, like.

Nor is it the 'One of the best albums of the last 10 years.'. Christ, you people...