Enigmatic British producer Burial—he operates in near-total anonymity—doesn’t make dance music so much as music inspired by dance culture. His fidgety, clacking beats mimic the syncopated bustle of U.K. garage, but he’s more concerned with heartbreak than booty-shake. The Burial sound taps into the sadness secreted at the heart of the nightclub experience, the way blissful dance-floor communion turns into the poignant comedown of heading home alone in the cold gray dawn. Influenced by the ecstatic soul-diva loops of ’90s rave, Untrue uses sampled voices more prominently than Burial’s self-titled 2006 debut; but only “Archangel” gets anywhere close to anthemic. Instead, the album works as an ambient whole, its fog-bank synths, yearning vocal slivers and stoic basslines filling the room with melancholy. Shrouded in crackle and condensation, Untrue suggests the “lost like tears in rain,” dying-android scene from Blade Runner looped for eternity.

Download “Archangel,” “Shell of Light,” “Homeless”