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Burial – Untrue

I first heard this album on Thanksgiving 2007, just after it was released I think. GGD were in Copenhagen for a show, and we spent Thanksgiving night in a borrowed apartment, cooking Italian food, smoking lots of hash, and listening to Untrue on repeat… over and over. As I listened I had the feeling that I was floating inside a very dark yet gentle storm cloud. I was drifting, but not in the way one drifts to white-light ambient music or magic-hour new age. It was a different type of drift… something that evoked thoughts of lonely nights with the perfect buzz, when you’re vibing with a rainy alleyway and a gloriously crooked walk to nowhere.

This record draws a very blurry line between lightness and darkness, I think that’s what makes it so unique-sounding, and although it conjures up a specific mood in my head, it also somehow seems to makes sense no matter what my surroundings are, which I definitely can’t say for many records. It fits well in those rainy alleyways, but it also makes perfect sense when I’m in headphones at a desolate beach, or on a crosstown bus on a sunny day. It draws new meaning and metaphor out of less obvious circumstances and environments.