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UNKLE
WHERE DID THE NIGHT FALL SURRENDER ALL 5.7.10 @www.vanguard-online.co.uk
Gone are the big name collaborators, but this album has proved that UNKLE no longer need the lure of a big name to ensure success. Old school UNKLE fans needn’t be worried – ok, so James Lavelle has chosen to collaborate with newer acts and incorporate live drums, strings and percussion from The Heritage Orchestra, but surely that is what we have come to expect from UNKLE – consistent evolution and pushing the boundaries to produce something new. The trademark electonica is still present throughout – it wouldn’t be an UNKLE album without it. As always, there are a number of guest vocalists – some old (Joel Cadbury from South on ‘Ever Rest’ and Elle J of dark Horses on ‘On a Wire’ and ‘Run Away’), the rest mainly new – Mark Lanegan (queens of the Stoneage and Screaming Trees), The Black Angels, Sleepy Sun. The tracks vary throughout – ‘Natural Selection’, featuring The Black Angels is a favourite – a trippy psychedelic track that reminded me of Belle and Sebastian (I found my head bobbing along and I had an inane grin on my face whist listening to it, safe to say I scared a few people on the Tube). ‘Follow me Down’ is a darker track and features San Francisco psych scene darlings Sleepy Sun and reminded me of the Sneaker Pimps mashed up with Björk and something else that I just couldn’t put my finger on... I loved ‘Caged Bird’ with the wailing vocals provided by Katrina Ford. Closing track ‘Another Night Out’ features the deep growl of Mark Lanegan and is a dark and gloomy affair accompanied by strings. I can honestly say that there was not one track that I disliked. Where Did The Night Fall is easily the best UNKLE album since 1998’s Psyence Fiction. It is an electronic, psychedelic, groove laden treat for the ears that I could listen to again and again. www.unkle.com |
