Burial Albums Ranked — The Complete Discography Guide
UK Bass & Electronics · Updated May 2026
Burial has released two studio albums — Burial (2006) and Untrue (2007) — plus a series of EPs that rank among the most significant releases in UK electronic music. Both albums appeared on Hyperdub. His total output across two decades amounts to under four hours of music. Here is the complete catalogue ranked from least to most essential.
Burial Discography — Ranked
#7 — Pre Dawn / Indoors (2018) — Hyperdub
Two tracks released quietly in 2018, continuing the template of the mid-period EPs: long-form constructions built from layered voices, fractured percussion and sub-bass weight. Pre Dawn / Indoors is less immediately striking than the material on either side of it in the catalogue, but "Indoors" in particular contains some of Burial's most affecting vocal work — pitch-shifted and processed into something between human and synthetic that is entirely his own. An entry point for no one; essential for anyone who has already worked through the rest. Reference track: "Indoors".
#6 — Street Halo EP (2011) — Hyperdub
The first major statement after Untrue, and the record that made clear the studio album format was not going to be Burial's primary mode going forward. Street Halo runs to three tracks and twenty-two minutes, drawing from the same vocabulary as Untrue — waterlogged sub-bass, pitch-shifted vocal samples, reversed piano — but applied to longer, more expansive structures. "Stolen Dog" and "NYC" demonstrated that the Untrue sound was not a closed system. An essential purchase for anyone who had exhausted the two albums. Reference track: "Street Halo".
#5 — Antidawn EP (2021) — Hyperdub
Burial's first release in three years when it arrived in early 2021, and one of his most immediately beautiful. "Upstairs Flat" is the most nakedly emotional track he had made since "Come Down to Us" — built from a vocal sample processed into something closer to a lullaby than anything else in the catalogue, sitting over a sub-bass pulse that moves at the same 140 BPM as his earliest work but feels completely still. Antidawn confirmed that the long silences between releases were not a sign of creative exhaustion. Reference track: "Upstairs Flat".
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#4 — Rival Dealer EP (2013) — Hyperdub
The most emotionally explicit release in the Burial catalogue and the one that most openly addressed questions of identity and belonging. "Come Down to Us" ends with a spoken passage on trans acceptance and the right to exist outside imposed categories — an extraordinary coda on a record that spent twenty-five minutes building toward it through three of the most powerful pieces of music Burial has made outside the two albums. Rival Dealer changed what people understood the music to be about. Reference track: "Come Down to Us".
#3 — Kindred EP (2012) — Hyperdub
Three tracks, forty minutes. Kindred moved Burial's structures toward the epic without losing the intimacy that defined Untrue — "Loner" runs to eleven minutes and sustains its emotional intensity across the full length; "Ashtray Wasp" is the most rhythmically complex thing in the catalogue outside the two albums. Kindred arrived in the same year as the Truant/Rough Sleeper split and confirmed that the post-album period was not a holding pattern but a second sustained phase of the work. Reference track: "Loner".
#2 — Burial (2006) — Hyperdub
The debut album and, for a period, a word-of-mouth record that spread through the UK electronic music community before mainstream publications had registered the name. Burial introduced the full template: two-step rhythms fractured across the stereo field, sub-bass frequencies drawn from dub and garage, voices pitched and processed into something between ghost and memory. "Distant Lights", "Spaceape" and "Prayer" each demonstrate what the sound could do at album length. The production on the self-titled record is rawer than Untrue, which makes it the harder entry point but a necessary one. Reference track: "Spaceape".
#1 — Untrue (2007) — Hyperdub
The record by which everything else in this catalogue is measured, and one of the most significant albums in UK music of the 2000s. Untrue deepened the vocabulary of the debut in every dimension: the pitch-shifted vocal samples — drawn from UK R&B and garage — processed to a state that was simultaneously human and spectral; the beats moving at 140 BPM but feeling motionless; the emotional weight of "Archangel", "Shell of Light" and "In McDonalds" constituting something close to a literary experience. Shortlisted for the Mercury Prize and placed on Wire's decade-end lists. The standard against which ambient and bass music was measured for a generation. Reference track: "Archangel".
Where to Start — Burial Entry Points
The correct entry point is Untrue. It is the record that defines everything about why Burial matters, and it is more immediately accessible than the debut without making any concessions. Once you have lived with Untrue, go back to Burial (2006) to hear the sound in its rawer, earlier form. After the two albums, the natural next step is the Rival Dealer EP — the most emotionally explicit statement in the catalogue and the one that reframes what you already know about the earlier work. From there, Kindred and Antidawn in either order.
Burial Merch — Designs from the Catalogue
The Burial merch collection draws from the visual language of the Hyperdub releases — the nocturnal urban photography, the grey and black palette, the post-industrial South London aesthetic that has defined the artwork since 2006. The Untrue T-Shirt references the visual identity of the defining album directly. Each piece is DTG printed on ring-spun cotton and dispatched from the UK. Browse the full Burial merch range →
