Albums
Only the Lonely - EP
2011
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2011
By Larry Fitzmaurice
Reviewed April 5, 2011
James Lavelle's long-running project continues to explore psych-rock textures, here with help from Nick Cave and the Duke Spirit's Liela Moss.
What if James Lavelle made a good album and nobody cared? That was the question at hand for Where Did the Night Fall, last year's fourth LP from Lavelle's still-going, mostly forgotten UNKLE project. The record, which saw Lavelle swapping beats for psych-rock textures and a correspondingly fitting list of guests (the Black Angels, Autolux, Sleepy Sun), had its share of mostly highlights. Not that anyone heard them; after all, this is a project that hit the ground limping with 1998's debut, -- a record remembered mostly for the violent Jonathan Glazer-directed video for the Thom Yorke-guesting cut "Rabbit in Your Headlights". The resulting decade and change hasn't been especially kind to UNKLE, so the relative vitality of was a nice treat and a surprising turn in Lavelle's inexplicably lasting career.