End Titles... Stories for Film


End Titles... Stories for Film is a compilation album from British electronic music act Unkle, inspired by feature films created since Unkle's previous 2007 album War Stories, released on. Unlike their previous album, the 2005 mix , "End Titles..." is composed of original material. It features collaborators: Josh Homme, Black Mountain, Gavin Clark, Joel Cadbury, James Petralli, War Stories producer Chris Goss, Dave Bateman, and James Griffith of Lake Trout/Unkle’s touring band.

Background

In the credits to the album James Lavelle stated:

Release

The track "Trouble in Paradise " is a full length version of a track from the BMW commercial that was aired on British television. "Chemical" originally appeared as an instrumental on Unkle's album War Stories under the title "Chemistry". Josh Homme, who also sang on "Restless" from the same album, now sings vocals over the track. Tracks "Blade In The Back", "Synthetic Water" and "Heaven" made their first appearance on Unkle's Japanese-Australian album More Stories.
The limited edition CD of End Titles... Stories for Film is packaged in a four panel wrap around digipak with an embossed gloss finish and includes a 12-page booklet.

Free downloads promotion

From four separate tracks from the middle section of the album were made available to free download, via four different websites to collect individually. The tracks were made available as follows:
The premiere of End Titles... Stories for Film has been promotionally linked to Unkle's "reinterpretation" of Mark Snow's "The X-Files Theme" as an end title for The X-Files sequel feature movie, , although the newly recorded track is not featured on Unkle's album. Beside the song "Broken" from War Stories, it will be featured on the movie's score soundtrack "".
On seven re-interpreted tracks from End Titles… Stories For Film, with two unreleased tracks "When Once It Was" and "A Perfect Storm", were released digitally as End Titles... Redux. The official UNKLE store offered 3000 limited-edition CDs of the album. The exclusive package is a 6-panel soft-pack with a 12-page booklet, with images by Robert Del Naja.
Several tracks from the Redux edition were included in a collaboration with fashion house Alexander McQueen titled Unkle For McQ for the Autumn/Winter 2009 collection, which was given away at an Alexander McQueen press day.

Track listing

All track written by James Lavelle, Pablo Clements, James Griffith except where noted
  1. "End Titles" – 0:35
  2. "Cut Me Loose" – 5:24
  3. "Ghosts" – 4:57
  4. "Ghosts " – 0:39
  5. "Kaned and Abel" – 1:04
  6. "Blade in the Back" – 5:12
  7. "Synthetic Water" – 1:06
  8. "Chemical" – 2:48
  9. "Nocturnal" – 5:01
  10. "Cut Me Loose " – 0:59
  11. "Against the Grain" – 5:22
  12. "Even Balance " – 0:45
  13. "Trouble in Paradise " – 5:01
  14. "Can't Hurt" – 4:13
  15. "24 Frames" – 4:45
  16. "In a Broken Dream" – 1:24
  17. "Clouds" – 4:07
  18. "Black Mass" – 3:08
  19. "Open Up Your Eyes" – 2:43
  20. "Romeo Void" – 2:11
  21. "Heaven" – 6:58
  22. "The Piano Echoes" Zeben Jameson – 5:24
  23. "Dolphinarium" – 1:07
  24. "On the Run" – 3:06
Tracks: 1, 5–7, 19–22 were taken from the film Odyssey in Rome.

''End Titles... Redux''

  1. "When Once It Was" – 1:18
  2. "Cut Me Loose " – 4:57
  3. "Can't Hurt " – 4:46
  4. "Against The Grain " – 5:40
  5. "24 Frames " – 5:05
  6. "A Perfect Storm" – 3:15
  7. "Heaven " – 10:20
  8. "Nocturnal " – 5:18
  9. "Clouds " – 5:29
  10. "Trouble in Paradise " – 5:44

    ''McQ''

  11. "Intro: UNKLE 4 MCQ" - 0:55
  12. "Heaven" - 6:49
  13. "Persons and Machinery" - 5:26
  14. "Proximity" - 1:13
  15. "Unknown" - 0:24
  16. "Heaven" - 0:06
  17. "Mayday" - 3:17
  18. "Ghosts" - 0:42
  19. "Against the Grain" - 5:11
  20. "24 Frames" - 4:58
  21. "Ghost" - 5:00
  22. Danny Elfman - "Wanted: The Little Things" - 4:06
  23. "Blade in the Black" - 5:14
  24. Queens of the Stone Age - "Burn the Witch" - 2:54
  25. "Morning Rage" - 5:15
  26. "Trouble in Paradise" - 5:43

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