Untrue

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<b>100 Best Albums</b> William Emmanuel Bevan’s music has always sounded as though it's being transmitted from somewhere deep underground—a place where drum ’n’ bass echoes through dirt and concrete. The London-born artist, better known as Burial, emerged during a pivotal time for electronic music in the UK, just as the jungle and garage scenes of the 1990s were blossoming into a network of different genre, each one generating its own sound and community. Bevan came up in the strobe lights of London rave, but by the early 2000, he was also embracing the darker, more gothic sounds of bass music; he eventually sent demos of his work to Kode9, the founder of a fledgling electronic label called Hyperdub. Released in 2007, <i>Untrue</i> immediately became a touchstone of UK electronic music, aided by the mystique surrounding Burial’s anonymity (to this day, Bevan rarely grants interviews). The album is gritty without being abrasive, with house-like vocals that lend a gentleness to the thundering, muddy ba. The album’s second track, “Archangel,” is perhaps one of the most recognizable songs in electronic music, with its pitched-down soprano sample consisting of the line, “Holding you/Couldn’t be alone/Couldn’t be alone/Couldn’t be alone.” (Bevan apparently wrote and produced the song in 20 minute, following the death of his dog.) .

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