The Road: Part I is the fifth studio album from British electronic music act Unkle, released on 18 August 2017 (2017-08-18).

The album was inspired by James Lavelle's time spent curating the Meltdown Festival at London's Southbank Centre in 2014.

[12] Talking about the process of creating the new album, Lavelle said:[12] 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.The artwork for the album was created by German painter Jonas Burgert.

The album is accompanied by a 36-page booklet that features artworks by Nathan Coley, John Isaacs, David Nicholson, Norbert Schoerner, Doug Foster, and previous collaborators Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones.