Artist: Unkle
Album: War Stories
Released: 2007
Recorded deep in the Californian desert with the Queens of the Stone Age producer Chris Goss, UNKLE’s third album invigorates their potentially tiresome hip-hop electronica with a jolt of genuine rock’n’roll drama.
James Lavelle and Richard File have recruited a splendidly moody range of guests – including 3D from Massive Attack, the garage rockers the Duke Spririt and the Cult’s Ian Astbury – who drawl and growl over a sequence of stirring, guitar-strewn soundscapes.
Astbury is reassuringly satanic on Burn My Shadow, but the most potent moment is Hold My Hand, on which Lavelle, previously best known as a knob-twiddling producer and DJ, makes a charismatic, Tim Burgess-style vocal debut. On this evidence, he should venture out from behind the decks more often.
Tracklist:
1. Tired Of Sleeping - (with Unkle)
2. Chemistry - (with Unkle)
3. Hold My Hand - (with Unkle)
4. Restless - (with Unkle/Josh Homme)
5. Keys To the Kingdom - (with Unkle/Gavin Clark)
6. Price You Pay - (with Unkle)
7. Burn My Shadow - (with Ian Astbury/Unkle)
8. Mayday - (with Unkle/The Duke Spirit)
9. Persons & Machinery - (with Unkle/Autolux)
10. Twilight - (with 3D/Unkle)
11. Morning Rage - (with Unkle)
12. Lawless - (with Unkle)
13. Broken - (with Unkle/Gavin Clark)
14. When Things Explode - (with Ian Astbury/Unkle)
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