Burial - Untrue

One of those albums for the forlorn city dweller, the second LP from enigmatic London dubstepper Burial is a headphone masterpiece. Unrivalled for soundtracking both late walks home past the cranes and exposed foundations and early wanders through the deserted side streets, Untrue, and particularly its astoundingly powerful opening cut ‘Archangel’, is essential nocturnal listening. Not even a pesky cloak-revealing Mercury Prize nomination could strip William Bevan's second record of any of its intimacy. (Padraic Halpin)