War Stories (album)

War Stories (album)

War Stories is the third album from Unkle. The album was released in Japan on 20 June 2007 Europe and the UK on 9 July 2007, followed by a 24 July release date in North America. War Stories debuted at #58 in Australia. The album was promoted by three singles: "Burn My Shadow", "Hold My Hand" and "Restless". The video for "Burn My Shadow" featured the actor Goran Visnjic and was directed by Miguel Sapochnik.

The cover art was designed by 3D of Massive Attack.

The track "Mayday" was played in the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV on the radio station Radio Broker.

The track "Chemistry" is used as the instrumental track for "Hello/Goodbye (Uncool)" by Lupe Fiasco from his 2007 album Lupe Fiasco's The Cool. Lupe Fiasco chose War Stories as his #1 album of the year as posted to a video on Myspace.

The track "When Things Explode" was used during the dramatic ending of the episode "Number Crunch" (Season 1 Episode 10) from the TV series "Person of Interest".

The song "Burn My Shadow" was used during the climax of the movie Repo Men. It was also featured in an Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood trailer and the trailer for the 2009 video game Fuel. The song "Chemistry" was featured in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood DLC "The Da Vinci Disappearance" and the documentary movie Countdown to Zero (2010).

The track "Persons & Machinery" was used in a trailer for the 2013 Danny Boyle film Trance.

Reviews of the album were generally favorable. Notably, the tracks "Burn My Shadow" and "When Things Explode" (which are thematically similar and feature the vocals of Ian Astbury) received nearly universal praise, even from negative or mediocre reviews such as those written by Pitchfork Media and NME.