I know this is a tired theme but Hey lonely hearts, looking for something to soundtrack your night alone? I have an album recommendation pulled from the archives, from 2007, from London: Burial’s Untrue.

One time I wrote this about Untrue: “Distorted vocals, usually female and often sonically androgenized, form the melodic basis of Burial’s work—dub thumps soaked in lonely reverb, sampled women singing love songs to a city that isn’t listening.  ‘I can’t take my eyes off you,’ someone croons adoringly on a track from Untrue, but the soundscape merely threatens; the sad, clever ways in which he joins those voices with his beats make for music as beautiful as it is hopeless.”

Now I’m going to write this about Untrue: it’s brave and you should hear it.  Burial retells love stories without writing a single lyric, playing only with voice and backdrop and exploring where the two meet.  The melodies are gorgeous; there are tracks that bump and tracks that just hover but it all washes over you like the same beast of a project.  And it’s good for studying, so tonight’s the night!  Just Google “burial untrue mediafire” and you’ll be plugging away at that work in no time—with the sound of a heart-sunken city in your ears.

Happy Valentine’s Day.