BurialBest Burial Albums Ranked

Tunes 2011-2019

loudandquiet

10

“Burial makes music for people walking home alone at night. The images in his cinematic music are all shadowed – industrial estates, stark multi-storeys and the weeds growing on derelict lots, stolen dogs, the dazed faces of lost clubbers. Burial is the wraithlike loner in the background, listening for the echoes of old parties. When he stepped out from anonymity over a decade ago William Bevan sim”

Kindred EP

pitchfork

8.7

“A year after Street Halo, the London producer returns with another three-track EP, and this collection pretty much breaks every Burial precedent there is.”

Untrue

pitchfork

8.4

“The dubstep artist follows his critically acclaimed debut with the even richer*,* more complex, and more enveloping Untrue, a record of reverb-heavy and mournful songs that feel almost like beautiful secrets being whispered to a listener.”

Antidawn

loudandquiet

8.0

“This week, a bit sad post-Christmas, tingling with ambient Covid dread and a bit knackered from New Year’s Eve, I’ve mainly been listening to the new Burial record, ANTIDAWN; amazingly, its familiar blend of rainy, minor-key textures and forlorn-sounding field recordings hasn’t really cheered me up. Setting my self-indulgent moping aside for a minute though, this is a spacious, desolate return fo”

Tunes 2011-2019

exclaim

8.0

“Two-and-a-half-hour compilation Tunes 2011-2019 works its way backwards through the last decade of Burial's output, but like many of the producer's post-Untrue undertakings, it generally resists neat and tidy execution.”

Truant / Rough Sleeper

fantano

8.0

“On this new pair of tracks, dubstep innovator Burial uses gaps and silence to progress his ever-growing interest in longer song lengths and ambient atmospheres.”

Untrue

toomuchtimeonhands

10

“Burial's second album 'Untrue' is beyond a masterpiece, it is a musical summary of pure emotion and reflection that feels so personal, like upon listening to it, light becomes touchable, the air becomes so cold it feels warm, and that is all through Burial's insane way of music production that is truly one of a kind. I have never listened to an album this many times without skipping a song, which really speaks volumes because to have 13, basically 12 if you don't count the intro (Untitled), tracks and not have any that lack compared to the others is very rare for albums, specifically in the electronic music scene, that of which I'm very, very familiar with. Burial is the kind of artist that you only stumble on at the most desperate times, like a musical first aid kit that is in the middle of a long, dark hallway. Tracks like 'Endorphin' and 'Homeless' just do something to me that can't be put into words, however what I can say is that they perfectly capture a late night walk in the UK as the golden street lights flash past you slowly, one by one, as the damp air and rain trickle on your clothes and skin, that's my physical experience with this album, something that I think a lot of people would be able to relate to. Now, the spiritual and deeper experience would be something you're going to have to find out for yourself, because it's so complicated that putting it into a simple summary, review, or even just any words themselves wouldn't do it justice. Top 3 Standouts: • Endorphin • Homeless • Archangel Worst Track (not necessarily terrible): • Shell of Light”