UNKLE
Psyence Fiction
Label:  Mo Wax  
Date:  1998
Length:  0:00
Format:  2LP
Genre:  Rock; Electronic
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      Guns Blazing (Drums of Death, Pt. 1)    
      2.  
      UNKLE (Main Title Theme)    
      3.  
      Bloodstain    
      4.  
      Unreal    
      5.  
      Lonely Soul    
      6.  
      Getting Ahead in the Lucrative Field of Artist Management    
      7.  
      Nursery Rhyme/Breather    
      8.  
      Celestial Annihilation    
      9.  
      The Knock (Drums of Death), Pt. 2    
      10.  
      Chaos    
      11.  
      Rabbit in Your Headlights    
      12.  
      Outro    
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      This ambitious effort shows Mo' Wax label guru James Lavelle taking on the role of director, orchestrating a grand design, and translating it musically with the talents of studio muse DJ Shadow. Most accustomed to working solo, Shadow demonstrates here his adaptable talents in collaborating with others, whether it's on the powerful "Rabbit in Your Headlights," a track recorded in 1996 in which Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke eerily foreshadows his later success, or in "Guns Blazing (Drums of Death Pt. 1)," the album's only traditional hip-hop track, which pairs annihilating beats to Kool G Rap's equally lethal vocal delivery. Psyence Fiction, which also features contributions from Beastie Boy Mike D and the Verve's Richard Ashcroft, is certainly one of the most epic and eclectic records to emerge from the electronic world this year, one that should not only further the efforts to bridge the musical segregation that exists among the hip-hop, alternative, and electronic camps but also introduce these cultures to a few new surprises of its own. --Tamara Palmer