Minus DJ Shadow, this is the second outing of James Lavelle’s orchestrated trip-hop behemoth, UNKLE. Never, Never Land is an album with a vastly different outlook to its predecessor, 1998’s Psyence Fiction. Gone is the ‘Shadowesque’ eccentricity so apparent in UNKLE’s first outing, instead replaced with a far greater focus on melody.
The guest appearances are still present, although their input serves to aid the album’s cohesion as oppose to undermining it. Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), 3D (Massive Attack), and Ian Brown all make worthwhile contributions which maintain the standard of quality you might associate with such artists.
If you were seeking for a soundtrack to set a dark, provocative, and occasionally awe-inspiring film to, this would be it. It has tracks for establishing the equilibrium, disrupting it, subverting it, and establishing a new one, and makes Never, Never Land an album immense in stature.
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