100 Greatest Songs of the 2010’s #37 Burial – Loner

Released : 2012

William Bevan broke his cover years ago, but the enigmatic producer still remains a shadowy figure. Having released two hugely acclaimed albums in the wake of dubstep’s rise from South London’s forbidding sink estates, he’s spent the decade collaborating and releasing sporadically, keeping his circle tighter that wire over skin.

Loner is in many ways Burial at his most orthodox, a chilly slice of funereal techno which gradually reveals the 4am ghosts that stalk when we’re tucked up in our nightmares. Alien, its an entry point to a musical farscape littered with wreckage and broken things, a gateway to a highly immersive world which it’s creator rarely leaves.