Burial / Burial
Artist Burial
Album Title: Burial
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Primary Genre Electronica/Dance: General Electronic
Format CD
Released 05/15/2006
Label Hyperdub Records
Catalog No HDBCD001
Bar Code No 5 024545 413021
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Untitled (0:36)
2. Distant Lights (5:26)
3. Spaceape / Burial Feat. The Space Ape (4:01)
4. Wounder (4:51)
5. Night Bus (2:20)
6. Southern Comfort (5:01)
7. U Hurt Me (5:22)
8. Gutted (4:43)
9. Forgive (3:07)
10. Broken Home (5:04)
11. Prayer (3:45)
12. Pirates (6:10)
13. Untitled (0:54)
Date Acquired 10/02/2010
Personal Rating
Acquired from Import_CDs (Amazon)
Purchase Price 13.82

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foobar2000 1.2.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2013-12-24 02:11:32

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Analyzed: Burial / Burial
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR17      -0.20 dB   -23.80 dB      0:36 01/13-[untitled]
DR5       -0.20 dB    -6.36 dB      5:27 02/13-Distant Lights
DR7       -0.20 dB    -8.52 dB      4:02 03/13-Spaceape (feat. Spaceape)
DR9       -0.20 dB   -10.91 dB      4:52 04/13-Wounder
DR10      -4.98 dB   -19.95 dB      2:20 05/13-Night Bus
DR8       -0.20 dB   -10.09 dB      5:02 06/13-Southern Comfort
DR7       -0.20 dB    -8.65 dB      5:23 07/13-U Hurt Me
DR9       -0.20 dB   -12.01 dB      4:43 08/13-Gutted
DR10      -0.12 dB   -13.87 dB      3:08 09/13-Forgive
DR6       -0.20 dB    -8.42 dB      5:05 10/13-Broken Home
DR8       -0.20 dB   -10.69 dB      3:45 11/13-Prayer
DR7       -0.20 dB    -9.62 dB      6:11 12/13-Pirates
DR19      -2.60 dB   -26.02 dB      0:55 13/13-[untitled]
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Number of tracks:  13
Official DR value: DR10

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           682 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Reviews
Review by Jason Birchmeier
Burial is the first great dubstep album, legitimizing a style — a generally dark, emotive, and faceless dub offshoot of 2-step — that had thus far been confined to 12" vinyl and the underground club scene. Even though a couple of the tracks ("Southern Comfort," "Broken Home") had been previously released on the South London Boroughs EP (2005), Burial doesn't sound like a compilation of one-off productions to date, as is often the case with music of this kind. It's a true album, a unified collection of songs similar in style as well as mood yet also distinct enough from one another to remain engaging over the course of 13 tracks in 51 minutes. As if it were a well-selected mix album, Burial flows well from one track to the next; the exception is "Spaceape," the only song featuring a vocalist (and unfortunately sequenced third, disrupting the flow just as it begins). While some tracks stand out ("Distant Lights," "Southern Comfort," "Gutted," "Broken Home"), they're interspersed by low-key tracks such as "Night Bus" and "Forgive" that enhance the overall mood and space out the highlights. As the hazy, mostly black cover art of the album (a nighttime aerial photograph of South London) suggests, the mood of Burial is dim, distant, and rather dreary; from a subjective standpoint, one might characterize it as the sound of 3:00 a.m., a time of reflection and perhaps remorse, of being alone after the party's come to an end. There is an emotional aspect at work that is key to this mood, a sullen sense of despair especially evident in the ambient interludes, communicated also in the ghostly vocal samples. The technical aspect of Burial is remarkable, too. The album's subterranean basslines and skittering rhythms, along with its array of found sounds and production effects, are simple yet inventive, austere yet evocative. Other dubstep producers have crafted a similar style, make no mistake, but Burial is the first to craft it on the scale of a full-length album so effectively.
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