Join us for a vinyl listening party of Burial's 'Untrue' (2007)

A ghostly classic of dubstep and electronic music in focus with a live vinyl album playback and a discussion for Halloween week.

Nialler9 and The Big Romance present Listen Closely, a monthly listening party focusing on one album we love, on the last Wednesday of every month.

This month: Wednesday October 28th
Burial – Untrue (2007)

Burial’s second album is the sound of London after dark: night buses, rain on windows, the faded memory of a recent rave. Made by an anonymous South London producer using basic audio-editing software rather than a traditional sequencer, it took the skipping rhythms of UK garage and 2-step and slowed them into something ghostly and heartbroken. Pitched and chopped vocal samples float through crackle and static like half-remembered love songs. Released on Hyperdub and shortlisted for the Mercury Prize, it’s one of the most influential electronic and dubstep records of the century.

Join Nialler9 and a guest for a discussion about this modern classic record and a playback of the album on vinyl through The Big Romance’s high-quality Toby Hatchett soundsystem. We also chat about the album’s context, craft, production, how it sits in the UK and dubstep canon and Burial’s discography, and why the album matters for a live Nialler9 Podcast episode.

Tickets are limited to 45 for this intimate event.

• Please note – Doors at the later time of 8:00pm for this one. Arrive early for seats.

Album playback and chat from 8.45pm

Previous albums covered at Listen Closely parties:

• Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (1994)
• Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream (1993)
• Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole (1997)
• Alanis Morrisette – Jagged Little Pill (1995)
• Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People (2002)
• Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (2008)
• Rosalía – LUX (2025)
• DJ Shadow – Endtroducing (1996)
• Massive Attack – Mezzanine (1998)
• Bloc Party – Silent Alarm (2004)
• Outkast – Stankonia (2000)
• My Bloody Valentine – Loveless (1991)
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz (2009)
• Jeff Buckley – Grace (1994)
• The Prodigy – Music For The Jilted Generation (1994)
• LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver (2007)
• Kendrick Lamar – good kid M.a.a.d. city (2012)
• J DIlla – Donuts (2006)
• Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation Of (1998)
• The Avalanches – Since I Left You (2001)
• Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever ago (2007)
• The Strokes – Is This It (2001)
• Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (2022)
• Boards Of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children (1998)
• Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear (2015)
• Beastie Boys – Ill Communication (1994)
• Fiona Apple – Tidal (1996)
• Portishead – Dummy (1994)
• Laurie Anderson – Big Science (1982)
• Madvillain – Madvillainy (2004)
• Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (2005)
• Four Tet – Rounds (2003)

Niall Byrne

Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent,  Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter,  and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.

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