Burial: Shell of Light (Hyperdub 2007) 

All my homies cry to Burial.

Burial's music hits so deep that it almost feels wrong that other people are listening to it, It's just too personal

My mate locked himself in his room so he could blast this during an acid trip at about 4 am. Our neighbour came round complaining and I had to answer the door tripping to apologise with this song flowing down the stairs in the background. When I opened the door of my mates room to tell him to turn it down a bit a wall of blue sound hit me. Good times, immense tune!

Everyone is commenting on 3:29. To me it evokes such an overwhelming sense of nostalgia. Reminds me of random childhood memories like laying in the grass on a hot summer day with a sprinkler hitting me.

Burial is like Boards of Canada, both make you nostalgic for a moment you've lived, but you're not really sure what that moment was.

The ambient part after 3:29 actually contains a sample from "Nice" by the Band "Crocheted Doughnut Ring", which is generally considered the first ambient song ever created - in 1967!

The end made me burst into tears uncontrollably.

14 years late to the party...glad I've finally arrived.

Just came from the video "All My Homies Hate Skrillex" and heard the final 30 seconds leaves you feeling a kind of way..... let's see. Ohhhhhhhh sheeeet.

The mastering of this song is pure genius. The volume goes up and down in various point, almost every four bars (0:57, 1:11, 1:27, 1:42)

The way the first half of the album was so dark and then suddenly you just hear this delicate 'closer' refrain is what makes this my favourite track of the album

The whole song is great but the second part, that starts at 3:29 is beyond words....

Looked for this after seeing "All my homies hate skrillex." I mainly listen to deathstep (moth, code pandorum, havel, etc.) and was interested in the hype around the last 30 secs of this track; but the entire song is an amazing blend of sound. Wish I'd found Burial sooner lol.

Strangely as it sounds, this song and another listening to this album made me realise how fortunate I am to have a great girlfriend. I went to her room to give her a kiss. I'm afraid to be in that stat as I was before her. Burial is something else, this album is on another level. Words cannot express how deeply I feel, how connected? Idk it's just hits you right in the soul. I hope everyone is okay here, peace.

love the D’Angelo sample ❤️

Burial made my night

everyone says that the ambient part is better.. I don't agree. I like the first part *-* it's so tender. like.. idk. just so soft and tender. eargasm

The ending bit of this song which samples again "we could be frien-eee-nds!" is the best thing in this major tunage! Makes me nostalgic for journeys down to Kent.

God Can You whisper in her ear... I wasn't sure we could be friends.

Emotional stuff. Love it.

I’ve been living life on numb so long. This song reminds me I still have emotions.

The first part is like Silent Hill trip-hop with vocals. Second part is like... when you finish Silent Hill and can finally leave with a bittersweet feeling. I'm almost positive Burial got inspired by Akira Yamaoka. It wouldn't be surprising considering Burial used Silent Hill 3 samples in his tracks.

I understand why everyone feels for this song. Archangel will always be the one. Driving down the road after a bad break-up, and you have to pull over because you're gutted and sobbing. Weirdly, I don't look back at that badly, it was closure, letting go. It's been 12+ years, and she messaged me a few months ago, and Im not going back. Ever.

3:29 💕 I always come here to listen this part

This is real music.

This album is a real work of absolute artistic greatness for as corny as that sounds. It continues to haunt me with every listening. I want it buried with me in my grave.

4:20 these two chords coming after an euphoric sample gets me everytime. It's like spending time thinking about all these childhoods and blissful memories, then realizing they are all in the past now, and you can no longer go back…

So this is what some of the Lofi hip hop songs are sampling

The vocals remind me of the xx . Its so clear how much burial has inspired other UK electronic acts like Jamie and Romy

Beautiful from 3.29... I’m just so speechless how someone can put so much emotions in music . I love it so much ❤️

Its the repeating words of "Love Yourself" that just... hits you ❤

After hours........ @7 am after 10hours rave 🖤🖤

Beautiful

Going through so many emotions while listening to this (and basically every other Burial track) . A true pioneer of this style of music

love that d'angelo sample

That outro though 😩🤍

This song and “think about it” by phaeleh got me thru so much. Thanks

Just in case you dont know the Shlohmo remix, it is insane if you like the 3:29 part especially. Burial - Shell Of Light (Shlohmo Remix) [HD]

1:48

Beauty of Sound and Tone

Give me a hug. Closer...Closerr...who knew?...Love you so...love you sooooo God can you whisper into her (my?) ear...I wasn't sure if we could be friends

Timeless track & record

Love the driving deep bass of the first part.

Geazy - opportunity cost. Had the outro piano of this song 🎶 super cool

Surprised this was 2007

It's my birthday This song always makes me feel less bad about being sad

This song is the reason i bought a cd of this album

most positive Burial's track ever

I wasn't sure we could be frieeeeeeeeends

3:30 forever

Who else is listening to this at 5am in 2021?

This is timeless people!

Just hauntingly beautiful. ❤️

I've heard music like at 3:29 often. I don't associate it with dubstep. Especially 4:20. I feel like a lot of ''space music'' can sound like that. Many of those songs sound very sad but also somehow open a gate to your soul. I can lay in bed and feel like I am floating through space. Look up Kevin Kendle - Spiral.

Unreal song great

its my first time listening to something like this and im so confused 3:39 hit and im still confused, not my cup of tea, but i can understand why so many people like it so much

Came here from the video "All my homies hate Skrillex" to check out the final 30 seconds. I'll edit my response down after I listened to the song. Wow, the shiver down my spine! My goodness, I'll have that one more time.

play back to 0.75 is Milwaukee protocol a2

The last 30-40 seconds tho

4:20 this part sounds like a silent hill soundtrack

"Shell of light" think about right meaning of this tune...

This album made me feel more than I’ve ever felt listening to music

Night made my burial

BIG UP

Sent It ✳️

Pure 🔥

This song sounds green

iconic

мягко

I feel like im the only one who likes the part before 3:29 better

OGGI MI PIACE COME TI VESTI

Burial is unlike anything but Burial

all the feelings

heaven

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Αλλού..

Ernie Halter Whisper

Timbah said the last 30 seconds hit like a train, lets see what we working with start - I enjoy the build and the glassy blunted keys quite a bit mid - It sounds like the bass is literally weeping. This is haunting but gorgeous later mid, post reincorporation of the rain - tearing up although not entirely sure why fated last 30 - nice break right as the emotional impact of the previous section was starting to simultaneously overload and wear off. Was marginally overhyped I believe overall 4/5 damn decent track, pulls on the heartstrings a bit while still being unique and not overbearingly emotional. Leads into a cathartic release at the late mid / end of track that leads to introspection and causes you to give pause to process what you just heard

You know you searched for this..

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Lay of the Gary's then hahahaha

4:20 it’s the way I feel inside and it’s all because you lied...

A3

not for me man

Looks like I'm 7 years late

MP's version is better.

algun chilenito por aqui?

MaximilianMus

This seems so abstract and strange to me, I really don't understand why this hits everyone so deep. Following the EDM evolution from its birth, I really don't know why this hits people so hard, relatively. Maybe because this is the first time listening to it in 2023, and knowing the wonders of 90s-20s trance, house, techno, prog, acid, electro... I am just too late and sullied to join the party... maybe its my innate hatred of Jazz and what it stands for musically... I need beauty and structure at once. This just sounds like Melodic Randomness.... can anyone elucidate? I really don't mean to insult anyone's tastes or experiences, some BT classics, and Children by R. Miles, get me going 25+ years later- I love equals and opposites in music, the intricacies, the dissonance complimenting the melody in ways, not mathematically, but artistically pleasing... but I need more context or something to appreciate this song the way so many others do, and I want to! Is this a case of ''you're too late and you'll never know'?

Meh. I was expecting... I don't know what i was expecting. Didn't feel anything close to what i was promised.

This is actually awful. Am I missing something or are people joking when they say that they like this? I dig the parts past 3:30, but the rest sounds macabre and cacophonous

meh

Boy, this was boooooring. This is why I hate this type of music: its so damn repetitive and pointless. Someone recently told me "go listen to Burial, i bet it will change your mind", well, my opinion remains unchanged.

no soul

3:30

1:58