|
End Titles...Stories for Film | 
| Artist: Unkle
Label: Surrender All
Category: Music
Buy New: £15.19
New (20) Used (2) from £6.99
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 232399
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 9
UPC: 800314903321
EAN: 0800314903321
ASIN: B001D5F2MW
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
|
| Tracks:
| • | End Titles [From the Film Odyssey in Rome] | | • | Cut Me Loose - Gavin Clark, UNKLE, UNKLE | | • | Ghosts | | • | Ghosts (String Reprise) | | • | Kaned and Abel [From Odyssey in Rome] | | • | Blade in the Back [From Odyssey in Rome] - Gavin Clark, UNKLE, UNKLE | | • | Synthetic Water [From Odyssey in Rome] | | • | Chemical - Josh Homme, UNKLE, UNKLE | | • | Nocturnal - Chris Goss, UNKLE, UNKLE | | • | Cut Me Loose (String Reprise) | | • | Against the Grain - Gavin Clark, UNKLE, UNKLE | | • | Even Balance, Pt. 2 [From Odyssey in Rome] | | • | Trouble in Paradise (Variation on a Theme) | | • | Can't Hurt - Joel Cadbury, Gavin Clark, UNKLE, UNKLE | | • | 24 Frames | | • | In a Broken Dream [From Odyssey in Rome] | | • | Clouds - Black Mountain, UNKLE, UNKLE | | • | Black Mass | | • | Open Up Your Eyes [From Odyssey in Rome] - Abel Ferrara, UNKLE, UNKLE | | • | Romeo Void [From Odyssey in Rome] | | • | Heaven [From Odyssey in Rome] - Gavin Clark, UNKLE, UNKLE | | • | Piano Echoes [From Odyssey in Rome] |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Hit and Miss July 22, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are some decent tracks on this album but there's also a few to pad out the album,my main gripe is that the actual recording quality is poor,this is unusual for a "band" like Unkle,still if you love Unkle like myself you could do worst,let's hope the next album is better recorded.
 Confounds Expectations! July 14, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The ever-evolving UNKLE have moved beyond the critically-lauded plaudits of their inception to a new configuration. Taking a cue - intentional or not - from U2's "Passengers" project, UNKLE have produced their third album in a year (if you include the Australian/Japanese "More Stories" rarities collection), with a record made and designed for the visual medium. Almost everything on this record was originally part of a soundtrack, be it for an advert, film, or documentary, and "End Titles" collects all their disparate work in one place, saving the elite UNKLE collector a ton of money.
Is it any good? Well, in a word, yes. UNKLE don't really release any stinkers, and they appear to be rather prolific of late, mining a creative slew that appears positively mogadon compared to The Beatles-album-every-six-months, but by modern standards - where four years between records is seen as the norm - UNKLE are aflame. The UNKLE template rests on three distinct elements, vast and sweeping string sections designed for cinema, unusual and unconventional rhythms, and understated vocals from a variety of guests. Whilst this fails to produce a coherent authorial voice for the record, it allows UNKLE not to be dominated by one musical or lyrical vision, every song sits both together and alone.
At a majestic 74 minutes - and not one of them is wasted - "End Titles" sounds like a coherent and important listening experience instead of what you might fear it is : it could be a hodgepodge compilation of random leftovers, but thankfully, "End Titles" is as much a record as anything else in their discography, in the traditional sense of a distinct listening experience with a musical and thematic narrative combines to form a whole greater than the sum of the parts rather than just a bunch of songs stuck together and placed on a plastic disc. It is a damn fine album, without any sense of filler or a distinct musical dip in quality at any point, that encompasses UNKLE at their finest. It may in fact, be their best record yet, and it's a shame that more bands don't do this kind of thing, clearing the decks and tidying up the loose ends to create an interesting, and important, curiosity in their body of work. "End Titles" is a fine record with no sense of any reason to exist other than as a musical work that deserves to stand on it's own merits. And it's merits are well deserved.
|
|
|
|
| |
