With its skipping beats and oppressive bass pressure, Burial's eponymous debut is a product of the dubstep scene, but it also pays homage to an older musical continuum of dark underground sounds and pirate radio culture which stretches from the nineties through to the present, encompassing jungle, drum ‘n’ bass, speed garage and UK garage. Nevertheless, Burial is most certainly not an album for the dancefloor – the most appropriate listening environment would be in a car driving through the city after dark whilst the rain pounds down and neon lights flicker outside. It's the sound of seventies dub meister King Tubby crying ‘Tears in Rain’ from the soundtrack to Blade Runner. Burial represent a hypermodern updating of the dub experience that genuinely embraces the spooked expanses and emptiness of the dub sound as opposed to just name-checking the genre.

TRACKLIST :

A1 Untitled 0:36

A2 Distant Lights 5:26

A3 SpaceapeEngineer 4:02

A4 Wounder 4:52

B1 Night Bus 2:20

B2 Southern Comfort 5:02

B3 U Hurt Me 5:23

C1 Gutted 4:43

C2 Forgive 3:07

C3 Broken Home 5:05

D1 Prayer 3:46

D2 Pirates 6:10

D3 Untitled 0:55