Artist.......: UNKLE
Album........: End Titles...Stories for Film
Label........: SURR009CDX
Genre........: Electronic
Catnr........: Surrender All
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Jul-21-2008
str.date.....: Jul-21-2008
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. End Titles 00:36
02. Cut Me Loose 05:25
03. Ghosts 04:58
04. Ghosts (String Reprise) 00:39
05. Kaned & Able 01:05
06. Blade in the Back 05:12
07. Synthetic Water 01:06
08. Chemical 02:49
09. Nocturnal 05:02
10. Cut Me Loose (String Reprise) 01:00
11. Against the Grain 05:23
12. Even Balance (Part Two) 00:46
13. Trouble in Paradise (Variation on A Theme) 05:02
14. Can't Hurt 04:13
15. 24 Frames 04:46
16. In A Broken Dream 01:25
17. Clouds 04:07
18. Black Mass 03:09
19. Open Your Eyes 02:44
20. Romeo Void 02:12
21. Heaven 06:59
22. The Piano Echoes 05:25
Runtime 74:03 min
Size 98,9 MB
Release Notes:
James Lavelle (now shorn of co-conspirator, Richard
File) returns with an album that's not quite an
album. End Titles...is a collection of works
relating to, inspired by or written for the moving
image. Like most soundtracks it works in part.
As befits an outfit known more for their ubiquity
in the remixing world, what you get is heavy on
atmosphere and light on really fine tunes. Luckily
for soundtrack work this makes far more sense than
on previous song-based collections. The
instrumentals here divide into short mood pieces
like End Titles, Synthetic Water, Even Balance and
In A Broken Dream. All give welcome pause for
thought between the actual songs. Longer pieces
like Trouble In Paradise tend to be Ennio
Morricone-inspired slices of string sultriness,
tipping into bombast at times.
Meanwhile, on the songs most of the guests (and it
wouldn't be an Unkle album without a host of those)
have worked with Lavelle before. And most of them
were featured on the band's last album, War
Stories. Nocturnal (with a massed chorus of Chris
Goss, James Petralli AND Robbie Furze) chugs along
like a testosterone-pumped early Eno number or an
LCD Soundsystem outtake. But Chemical's skittering
Buckley-esque dash is actually weakened by Josh
Homme's indistinct whine. The trouble is the
generic big beat-driven heroics are just TOO
generic: Four-to-the-floor beats bolted together
over rather cluttered productions.
That said, the tracks with Clayhill's Gavin Clarke
such as Blade In The Back work well, as does the
bubbling, brooding Heaven. However, Open Up Your
Eyes, with Abel Ferrara doing a Bob Dylan
impersonation is probably best glossed over.
In the end one wishes that Unkle had gone all out
for a record filled with moody atmospherics. As
such End Titles... only half succeeds