After a rollercoaster twenty-five year career as an artist, curator and tastemaker, James Lavelle returns with UNKLE’s fifth studio album: 'The Road'. In the twenty years since UNKLE’s debut, Lavelle has been prolific. He created three more studio albums, a host of critically acclaimed film scores, worked aroundthe globe as a DJ and curated a series of art exhibitions. “I hadn’t made a record in a long time, and the incarnation of UNKLE had changed in that now, it was me on my own. For that reason, I wanted to make a record that I hadn’t been able to before, going back to the roots of where I came from, with a foot in modern London”. After a productive trip to the States, Lavelle returned to London to add the finishing touches to what was shaping up to be another classic UNKLE record. Lavelle then managed to conclude a twenty year conversation with Primal Scream’s Andrew Innes, as the pair finally got together in the studio. Innes plays lead guitar to the album’s title track. Another first for Lavelle was a collaboration with Planet Funk’s Gigi Canu and Marko Baroni, who along with The Duke Spirit starlet Liela Moss, ESKA and Mark Lanegan contributed to UNKLE’s dark reinterpretation of summer anthems.