Burial (Burial album)
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Burial is the eponymous debut album by the dubstep
Dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in south London, England. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals"....

 producer Burial
Burial (musician)
Burial is the stage name of William Bevan, an electronic musician 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...

. It was released in 2006 on Kode9
Kode9
Kode9 is a London-based electronic music artist, DJ, and owner of the Hyperdub record label. An MC, The Spaceape, is a frequent collaborator...

's Hyperdub
Hyperdub
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 records to critical acclaim, including being named "Album of the Year" by The Wire
The Wire (magazine)
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magazine. It was also named the 25th best album of the decade by Resident Advisor
Resident Advisor
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, who called it "a revolutionary record in the way that it influenced dubstep sounds and reinvented 2-step for an entirely different generation". The album artwork is by Burial, and includes an aerial view of South London around the area of Wandsworth Prison and the intersection of Trinity Road and Windmill Road.

According to journalist Derek Walmsley,

Track listing

Tracks 1, 2, 4, 6-10 and 12 composed by William Bevan.
  1. "Untitled"
    • Contains a sample of Benicio del Toro
      Benicio del Toro
      Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez is a Puerto Rican and Spanish actor and film producer. He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a BAFTA Award for his role as Javier Rodríguez in Traffic . He is also known for his roles as Fred Fenster in The Usual...

      's dialogue from the film 21 Grams
      21 Grams
      21 Grams is a 2003 American drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston, and Benicio del Toro....

      (2003).
  2. "Distant Lights"
    • Contains a sample from "Emotion" by Destiny's Child
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      Destiny's Child was an American R&B girl group whose final line-up comprised lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. Formed in 1997 in Houston, Texas, Destiny's Child members began their musical endeavors in their pre-teens under the name Girl's Tyme...

  3. "Spaceape feat. Spaceape"
    • Spaceape's lyric is almost identical to his lyric on "Victims", from Memories of the Future with Kode9
      Kode9
      Kode9 is a London-based electronic music artist, DJ, and owner of the Hyperdub record label. An MC, The Spaceape, is a frequent collaborator...

       (Hyperdub
      Hyperdub
      Hyperdub is a London-based record label, founded and run by Steve Goodman, aka Kode9.Artists who have released on Hyperdub include label owner Kode9 Hyperdub is a London-based record label, founded and run by Steve Goodman, aka Kode9.Artists who have released on Hyperdub include label owner Kode9...

      )
  4. "Wounder"
  5. "Night Bus"
    • Contains a vocal sample from "Praise Ye Jah
      Praise Ye Jah
      Praise Ye Jah is Jamaican reggae singer Sizzla's third studio album. It was released on Xterminator on October 21, 1997. The songs were written by Sizzla and produced by Philip "Fatis" Burrell.-Track listing:#"Praise Ye Jah" - 3:53...

      " by Sizzla
      Sizzla
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      .
  6. "Southern Comfort"
  7. "U Hurt Me"
    • Contains a sample from "Hunger", from the Black Hawk Down
      Black Hawk Down (soundtrack)
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      soundtrack (2002).
    • Contains a vocal sample from "Foolish" by Ashanti.
  8. "Gutted"
    • Contains a sample of Forest Whitaker
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      's dialogue from the film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999).
  9. "Forgive"
    • Contains a sample from "An Ending (Ascent)" by Brian Eno
      Brian Eno
      Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

      .
  10. "Broken Home"
    • Contains a sample from "Dry Cry" by Sizzla
      Sizzla
      Sizzla Kalonji, or simply Sizzla in are de reggae musician. He is one of the most commercially and critically successful contemporary reggae artists and is well-known for his above-average prolificacy...

      .
  11. "Prayer"
    • Contains a drum loop sample from "Sometimes I Cry" by Les McCann
      Les McCann
      Les McCann is an American soul jazz piano player and vocalist whose biggest successes came as a crossover artist into R&B and soul.-Biography:...

  12. "Pirates"
  13. "Untitled"
    • Contains a sample of Will Patton
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      's dialogue from the film The Mothman Prophecies
      The Mothman Prophecies (film)
      The Mothman Prophecies is a 2002 psychological horror film directed by Mark Pellington, based on the 1975 book of the same name by parapsychologist and Fortean author John Keel. The screenplay was written by Richard Hatem...

      (2002).
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