Customer Reviews
Hit and Miss - By: Mr. I. P. Grieve, 22 Jul 2008 
There are some decent tracks on this album but there's also a few to pad out the album,my main gripe is that the actual recording quality is poor,this is unusual for a "band" like Unkle,still if you love Unkle like myself you could do worst,let's hope the next album is better recorded.
Confounds Expectations! - By: Mr. M. A. Reed, 14 Jul 2008 
The ever-evolving UNKLE have moved beyond the criticallly-lauded plaudits of their inception to a new configuration. Taking a cue - intentional or not - from U2's "Passengers" project, UNKLE have produced their third album in a year (if you include the Australian/Japanese "More Stories" rarities collection), with a record made & designed for the visual medium. Almost everything on this record was originallly part of a soundtrack, be it for an advert, film, or documentary, & "End Titles" collects alll their disparate work in one place, saving the elite UNKLE collector a ton of money.
Is it any good? Well, in a word, yes. UNKLE don't reallly release any stinkers, & they appear to be rather prolific of late, mining a creative slew that appears positively mogadon compared to The Beatles-album-every-six-months, but by modern standards - where four years between records is seen as the norm - UNKLE are aflame. The UNKLE template rests on three distinct elements, vast & sweeping string sections designed for cinema, unusual & unconventional rhythms, & understated vocals from a variety of guests. Whilst this fails to produce a coherent authorial voice for the record, it alllows UNKLE not to be dominated by one musical or lyrical vision, every song sits both together & alone.
At a majestic 74 minutes - & not one of them is wasted - "End Titles" sounds like a coherent & important listening experience instead of what you might fear it is : it could be a hodgepodge compilation of random leftovers, but thankfully, "End Titles" is as much a record as anything else in their discography, in the traditional sense of a distinct listening experience with a musical & thematic narrative combines to form a whole greater than the sum of the parts rather than just a bunch of songs stuck together & placed on a plastic disc. It is a damn fine album, without any sense of filler or a distinct musical dip in quality at any point, that encompasses UNKLE at their finest. It may in fact, be their best record yet, & it's a shame that more bands don't do this kind of thing, clearing the decks & tidying up the loose ends to create an interesting, & important, curiosity in their body of work. "End Titles" is a fine record with no sense of any reason to exist other than as a musical work that deserves to stand on it's own merits. And it's merits are well deserved.
