Somewhat insubstantial mood record
In terms of atmosphere and feeling, Burial's "Untrue" is everything the reviewers here have said: a cry of loneliness and despair from the empty, dark, cold, rain-soaked streets of some massive urban metropolis. As many have said, it also feels intensely personal and intimate, unlike the rather alienated, mechanical feel of a lot of electronica these days. As a backdrop for nostalgic, mournful thought, there is nothing better...

And as long as your mind stays pre-occupied in such a way, you'll never realize you're listening to an extremely repetitive record that fails to change, evolve, or explore a lot of the possibilities and directions he could have taken with the chosen theme. I believe Burial was trying to make a thematically consistent album (he even uses the same warped vocal samples in multiple tracks sometimes), but took it a bit too far. If you listen to this album enough times, you'll be able to tell the tracks apart, but there is little to no stylistic variation.

The production style is interesting, although I can't say whether it's been done before by someone else, since I'm not familiar with much "dubstep". He doesn't really try to create a "spacious" feel or a cohesive audio environment, but rather opts to remind the listener of several familiar sounds at once: Snowy TV screens, rain hitting the windshield of the car, distorting the golden glow of the streetlights as you drive through the night...

Overall, I understand both the positive and negative reviews of this album. I'd say, if this sounds like the kind of mood record you're in the mood for, buy it, but realize you're getting an album with pretty much no variation. For me, sometimes it's a 5, sometimes it's more like a 3... making my final rating a solid 4 stars.

Heartbreakingly intimate
This is one of the best albums I have ever heard. It is a hauntingly embracing work of art. Each track is essential to the whole experience of the album, and you'll find yourself needing to hear it again and again and again...

Are they having a laugh?
I know this album is getting all these great reviews and people with really great taste can't get enough of it, but I don't get it! Yes, the first track is amazing, but the entire rest of the album sounds nearly exactly the same. In fact, the first time I played it I thought, "Wow, what a long song," only to find out that I was already on track 6! I am sure there are subtleties that I am missing, but I think this should have been sold as an EP, or as a EP of remixes, since they all do sound like the same song. I would love for someone to show me the error of my thought processing on this one, how could so many of you be wrong?

Exquisite rainy Sunday morning music
I found a review of this album on Pitchfork Media and while I've always had a love-hate relationship with that website's reviews something struck a chord with me and when they named it the 10th best album of 2007 I decided to give Burial's "Untrue" a shot. I'm really glad I did because it's one of the best discs of 2007. A tight combination of electronic, soul, dubstep (a new genre I was not familiar with before hearing this) and a little hip-hop, the music is indescribably good, with synths floating behind practically every track, vocals at times strangely altered, frenetic beats, and dub bass making it presence known here and there.

You know you're in for a special listening experience when a sound clip from David Lynch's film "Inland Empire" is used in the opening track "Untitled". My favorite tracks are "Ghost Hardware", the poignant, hypnotic "Endorphin" with alien sounding vocals, "Dog Shelter" with its gentle, bittersweet synths and the relentless, bouncy "Shell of Light" with it's beautiful female backing vocals and dreamy outro that lasts for a gorgeous 1 min. 15 seconds. Many of the tracks generate images of the gritty, urban rain-washed streets of London.

The music on this album sounds like a perfect mixture of Massive Attack, 90's electronic-techno greats Future Sound of London, and the UK hip-hop outfit The Streets. The music envelops you in an almost otherwordly, melancholy atmosphere, great to listen to all alone on a rainy Sunday morning.

I may have to give Pitchfork more credit than I'm used to, since they really hit a bull's eye on this one.

Great mood piece, but too repetitive
This appears to be one of those albums which would appeal more to critics than to the general, album-buying public. I think it's a unique work, very evocative and moody, meticulously crafted and produced, nicely blending dubstep and R & B, simultaneously dirty and crystaline in structure. Yet each track sounds, to my ears, very much like the previous one. Of course there are differences and shifts, but their subtlety relegates this work as one for studied, rather than for casual, listening. It struck me very similar in temperament and tone to Plasticman's "Consumed" from 10 yrs back. Ultimately, after repeated listens, I found too little movement between or within the songs on this album for me to recommend it or place it in heavy rotation, and though I do appreciate the artist's contribution in forwarding/expanding the genre, I think Burial's "Untrue" is overrated by critics.