Burial

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UK dubstep

Biography

Burial is the stage name of William Bevan, an electronic recording artist from London. His music contains elements of dubstep, 2-step garage, ambient and house music. His eponymous debut album was released in 2006 to critical acclaim. The Wire magazine named it their album of the year, along with achieving fifth place in the Mixmag 2006 Album of the Year list, and eighteenth in the best of the year list of The Observer Music Monthly supplement. Burial's second album, Untrue, was also released to critical acclaim and was the second-highest rated album of 2007, according to the review-collating website, Metacritic.

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Blogs from the BBC

  1. Digital Digest: R.E.M, Burial Attack, Chad Valley and more

    Thu 20 Oct 2011 09:22  ... Producer Will

  2. Tip of The Week: Context MC - Listening to Burial

    Mon 17 Oct 2011 10:30 The walk home after a rave can be a mixed bag of emotion. On one hand you could be... Dan Lucas

  3. Digital Digest: Massive Attack & Burial, Kate Bush, Jay Electronica and more

    Wed 12 Oct 2011 18:36  ... Producer Will

BBC Reviews

  1. Untrue 2007

    Review of Untrue

    Reviewed by Si Hawkins

    A dark return to two step territory, and a somnambulent classic in the making...

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