I’m gonna die in a place that don’t know my name, Richard Ashcroft moaned nine years ago on Unkle’s Psyence Fiction. But “Lonely Soul” would’ve worked even better on the desolate landscape of War Stories, the third concept album from Unkle mastermind James Lavelle. The theme here is terrestrial annihilation, as War Stories‘ psychedelic haze of live drums and hypnotic guitars (Queens of the Stone Age’s Chris Goss is co-producer) grips you like a breath of desert air. The bombast can get stifling, but you’re hopelessly drawn to the reverberating mirage of tracks like “Keys to the Kingdom,” voiced by Gavin Clark. Lavelle’s latest trip to Never Neverland is risky, but more accurately: hot.