The producer born Michael Volpe emerged at the turn of the decade, producing breakthrough tracks for Lil B, A$AP Rocky and Main Attrakionz, and his lo-fi style – with its moody melodies, faraway vocal samples, and massive, in-the-red drums – came to define the sound known as “cloud rap” and make him an underground star in his own right.

Not bad, considering they're just tunes.After a few quiet years, Clams Casino is returning with his grandest artistic statement yet. But from the dubby blips of his first love letter to his hometown South London Boroughs to the rave refractions of Pre-Dawn / Indoors released just last week, each of his releases offers the possibility of transportation to other realms. This is ostensibly ranked from worst to best. So in honor of the 10th anniversary of Untrue, his greatest longform statement, we decided to zero in on what makes him work so well moment-to-moment too.īelow is a list of every officially released Burial song-including collaborations, but excluding remixes, as blissful as some of those are.

But because it's often read as mood music, consumed in long, uninterrupted settings, spliff in hand, it can be easy to miss out on how good Burial is at making straight-up songs-whether they're shadow-world pop tracks or tightly composed ambient pieces. Untrue gets the most love from casual listeners-and understandably, few full-length records in any genre create such a vivid world-but so much of Burial's work outside of that record strains for those same peaks. There and throughout his work, he conjures blurry visions out the windows of late-night public transportation, stocking a world with characters both benevolent and malicious, courts visits from extraterrestrials and makes time to grab some fast-food before he returns back home, bleary-eyed. As has been constantly described in the years since its release, Untrue- which turned 10 on November 5-is one of the 21st century's preeminent documents of nightlife loneliness, charting the internal spaces between club and domicile.

But for the producer born William Bevan, there's always been suggestions of more worlds in his work than anyone could exer properly explain anyway.

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