Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	90/100
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Source	Rating
AllMusic
Blender
Collective	4/5
The Guardian
MSN Music	A
Pitchfork	8.4/10
Q
Resident Advisor	5/5
Spin
URB

Untrue is the second studio album by British electronic music producer Burial. Released on 5 November 2007 through Hyperdub, the album was produced by Burial from 2006 to 2007 using the digital audio editing software Sound Forge. Whilst retaining several elements of his past work, including his debut album Burial (2006), Untrue marked a development in Burial's sound through its more prominent utilisation of pitch-shifted and time-stretched vocal samples. The album also contains influences from Burial's own musical tastes, particularly the UK garage and hardcore music genres.

Untrue received rave reviews from critics, who commended Burial's production and new approach to sampling; in addition, several critics cited the album as an improvement over his previous releases. Untrue later appeared in several publications' lists of the year's best albums and received nominations for the Mercury Prize and the Shortlist Music Prize. It charted at numbers 57 and 58 in Belgium and the United Kingdom respectively and produced two singles, "Archangel" and "Ghost Hardware". Since its release, Untrue has been viewed as a landmark album in the dubstep genre.

Following the release of his 2006 self-titled debut album, Burial began work on a second studio album. He had felt some pressure to follow up Burial, and worked several hours a day creating new songs and learning how to use new sound-editing programs. The musician produced various songs which he described as "darker" and "more technical", but ultimately scrapped the material because he grew tired of them from the long hours he spent on their production. Burial then decided to take a new direction in producing the album; instead of spending long periods of time working on individual songs, he sought to "make a glowing, buzzing album, do it really fast; to cheer [himself] up." He also desired to capture the essence of his musical preferences—aiming to make tracks based on what UK hardcore music meant to him—while at the same time incorporating "a dose of real life... something people can relate to."

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