Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Live Gallery: Laneway Festival, Sydney 4.02.2024
Laneway 2024: A Kaleidoscope of Sound and Colour in blistering heat.
Live Review and Gallery: Capturing the Ethereal – Unknown Mortal Orchestra on 35mm Film at the Sydney Opera House – Eora/Sydney, 30.01.24
On a magical Tuesday night, the hallowed halls of the Sydney Opera House resonated with the dreamy tunes of Unknown Mortal Orchestra (UMO). The Aotearoa/New Zealand-based psych-rockers delivered a spellbinding performance at the Concert Hall, marking their debut at this iconic venue. The sold-out show was a testament to the band’s allure, drawing fans from …
Track: Unknown Mortal Orchestra reveal first new single in three years, Weekend Run
Unknown Mortal Orchestra have released their first new music in nearly three years, dating back to 2018’s Sex & Food album with a new single, Weekend Run, out now on the ever brilliant Jagjaguwar label. It’s not that UMO – aka Runah Nielsen hasn’t kept himself busy – quite the opposite, releasing the IC-01Hanoi project, collaborating …
Album Review : Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s ‘Sex & Food’
Ruban Nielson, from the beginning of Unknown Mortal Orchestra, has dabbled musically in darker terrain. There’s always a sense of groove and a funky nature to the music he creates, but even on the lightest days the songs sound as if they were aged in a time capsule and then dipped in some kind of …
Track: Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Everyone Acts Crazy Nowadays, plus tour news
‘Everyone Acts Crazy Nowadays’ is the third track to be released off the forthcoming album by Unknown Mortal Orchestra called ‘Sex & Food’, due out on 6 April. Unknown Mortal Orchestra is the work of artist Ruban Nielsen. It is a funky disco-infused track from the New Zealander who is based in Portland, Oregon: smooth …
News : Unknown Mortal Orchestra Announce New Album ‘Sex & Food’; Share New Track “American Guilt”
When Ruban Nielson puts out a new Unknown Mortal Orchestra album you can be sure it’s gonna be special. Each time out since his 2011 self-titled debut to 2015s Multi-Love, Nielson has tweaked and honed his mildly lo-fi and mildly psychedelic sound with cleaner production and more emphasis on songwriting. He’s not one to putz …
See: Unknown Mortal Orchestra Share “First World Problem” Video
It seems Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Ruban Nielson has gotten a fresh kick of inspiration in the form of new song “First World Problem”. The track debuted back at the end of May and seemed as if Nielson was using 2015s Multi-Love and that record’s groovy R&B-inflected vibe as the launching point for this new song. …
Album Review: Daniel Johnston – Space Ducks
I think I might have had my mind melted. I was just checking out some of the comic book for which this album is the soundtrack and the combined experience is powerfully psychedelic. I have to admit to not having read the comic cover to cover (not enough time), or having bought and played the …