# Burial — Archangel

Burial’s Archangel (2007) appears on 4 of our lists — Dubstep, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, and The Waxonia Desk — The Night It Went National, highest at No. 3 in Dubstep. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 2007
- **Label:** Hyperdub
- **On:** Dubstep, The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, and The Waxonia Desk — The Night It Went National
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29
- **Artist:** [Burial](https://waxonia.com/artist/burial/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/burial--archangel/

## What 4 lists say

### No. 3 in [Dubstep](https://waxonia.com/genre/dubstep/)

Rain, vinyl crackle and a pitched-up R&B vocal grieving over garage percussion that never quite lands on the grid. The record that made this music legible to people who would never enter the club.

### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — Ghosts](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-ghosts/)

A label's most famous record, made almost entirely out of the residue of the others. Hauntology was a useful word for it precisely because the music is assembled from things that have already happened.

### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/)

Rain, vinyl crackle and a pitched vocal grieving over percussion that never lands on the grid. The record that made club music legible to people who never go to clubs.

### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — The Night It Went National](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-dubstep-goes-national/)

From just after the broadcast, and the record that took the sound to people who would never go to DMZ. What a scene gains in reach it loses in the room, and this is the trade being made.

## Listen

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Burial%20Archangel) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=E2qLD9c3Gq4)

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