UNKLE - Never Never Land '2003

Tracks list

Tracklist:

[0:54] 1. Unkle - Back And Forth
[5:46] 2. Unkle - Eye For An Eye
[6:58] 3. Unkle - In A State
[6:20] 4. Unkle - Safe In Mind (Please Get This Gun From Out My Face)
[4:09] 5. Unkle - I Need Something Stronger
[6:53] 6. Unkle - What Are You To Me?
[5:12] 7. Unkle - Panic Attack
[5:14] 8. Unkle - Invasion
[5:33] 9. Unkle, Ian Brown - Reign
[4:15] 10. Unkle - Glow
[7:21] 11. Unkle - Inside
[4:35] 12. Unkle - Awake The Unkind

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ABOUT THE ALBUM
1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
Total length: 01:03:00
Main artist: Unkle
Composer: Various Composers
Label: Universal-Island Records Ltd.
Genre: Leftfield, Dub, Trip-Hop
© 2003 Universal Island Records Ltd. A Universal Music Company.
â„— 2003 A&M Records Ltd. London/Mowax Recordings

When the first UNKLE full-length dropped in 1998, some electronica fans were
hoping that the supergroup featuring Mo Wax founder James Lavelle and production
wunderkind DJ Shadow would become to electronic music what Radiohead had become
to rock: an act with commercial clout, artistic importance, and the rapt
attention of music critics everywhere. Psyence Fiction instead engaged only a
small coterie of curious listeners interested in the concept of epic trip-hop --
or the parade of star collaborations. UNKLE full-length number two, Never,
Never, Land, finds James Lavelle with a new conspirator, singer/songwriter
Richard File, a talented writer whose blasted yet sweet vocals unfortunately
recall Dirty Vegas as much as Thom Yorke. Lavelles vision for music is still in
wide focus, replete with sweeping strings, driving breakbeat passages, and
tender balladry (from File) as well as raging, angsty metal (from guest vocalist
Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age). Massive Attacks 3D gets another chance
to excoriate Blair and Bush on Invasion, while Ian Brown shambles through
another guest appearance on Reign. Lavelles interests and themes havent changed
drastically from Psyence Fiction, and with fewer star guests (anonymous
contributions from Jarvis Cocker, Brian Eno, and Graham Gouldman
notwithstanding), Never, Never, Land is a work of intense drama but little
importance. [The U.S. release, which followed a year after the British, included
two bonus-track remixes.]
© John Bush /TiVo


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