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Track Listing
1. End Titles
2. Cut Me Loose - (featuring Gavin Clark)
3. Ghosts
4. Ghosts [Strings Reprise]
5. Kaned and Abel
6. Blade In the Back - (featuring Gavin Clark)
7. Synthetic Water
8. Chemical - (featuring Josh Homme)
9. Nocturnal - (featuring Chris Goss)
10. Cut Me Loose [Strings Reprise]
11. Against the Grain - (featuring Gavin Clark)
12. Even Balance (Part Two)
13. Trouble In Paradise (Variation On a Theme)
14. Can'T Hurt - (featuring Gavin Clark/Joel Cadbury)
15. 24 Frames
16. In a Broken Dream
17. Clouds - (featuring Black Mountain)
18. Black Mass
19. Open Up Your Eyes - (featuring Abel Ferrara)
20. Romeo Void
21. Heaven - (featuring Gavin Clark)
22. Piano Echoes, The
Album Notes
UNKLE: Gavin Clarke, Josh Homme (vocals); Jamie McDonald (guitar); James Griffith (guitars, bass guitar); Mike Lowry (drums); Pablo Clements, James Lavelle.
Additional personnel: Abel Ferrara (vocals, guitars, piano); Stephen Gallifent (guitar); Phillip Shepard (cello); Aidan Lavelle (strings, piano); Brett Shaw (drums); Chris Goss, James Lavelle (background vocals).
Programmer: Pablo Clements.
Arranger: Aidan Lavelle.
Issued in 2008, END TITLES. STORIES FOR FILM marks another new phase for James Lavelle's ongoing U.K. electronica project, UNKLE, with longtime collaborator Richard File replaced by programmer Pablo Clements. Despite File's absence, END TITLES is largely a companion piece to the previous album, WAR STORIES, with a number of familiar guests popping up once again, including Gavin Clark of the British folk-rock act Clayhill and Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and Chris Goss. The record's standout track, however, is "Clouds," an ominous song enhanced by the Canadian indie-rock act Black Mountain. Although nothing will likely top UNKLE's classic DJ Shadow era, this moody, cinematic outing proves that Lavelle can create intriguing music regardless of his primary foil.
Industry Reviews
'Cut Me Loose' is an impressively wide-screen opener and the Black Mountain collaboration hints at greater things.
3 stars out of 5 -- [W]ith ambient beats, sweeping strings and distorted guitars complemented by unearthly crooning from collaborators old and new. The result is atmospheric...
UNKLE's most-rewarding record since their debut, matching outward elegance with inner meticulousness. If ever you dream of visiting the dark side of the moon, sounds from this record are sure to accompany your imaginary adventures.
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