There was derision?
― 29 facepalms, Monday, 20 April 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
Pretty harrowing account of this dude's love life on pork. David Crosby Triad type shit
― calstars, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 23:53 (nine years ago) link
Pfork sry!
― calstars, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
Triad isn't harrowing in any way at all tho
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 05:42 (nine years ago) link
Unless Ruban's dating David Crosby, that'd be p harrowing
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 05:44 (nine years ago) link
I hadn't really thought about it but their song "multi-love" is basically a "Triad" update.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 14 May 2015 02:46 (nine years ago) link
I read it as a transgender thing but yeah, I guess it works either way
"She don't want to be a man or a woman / she wants to be your love"
― calstars, Thursday, 14 May 2015 02:49 (nine years ago) link
bless him for his honesty
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 14 May 2015 02:57 (nine years ago) link
like his stuff, but dude comes across as a pretty irritating "bro" in that pfork feature
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
I like this album a lot. I'm not sure I immediately like it as much as the first two (which blend together for me because I heard / bought them at the same time), but the highs here (for me, "Necessary Evil" and "The World Is Crowded") are as good as anything he's done. Also agree with the pfork review about the last song; sounds like padding; it's the weakest track by a pretty wide margin, I think.
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
Dude is such a talent. Besides the guitar playing and the songs themselves, the vocal phrasing is great too. "Like Acid Rain" in particular.
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 00:35 (nine years ago) link
No surprise that they sold out the tiny place they're playing in brooklyn and tix are now going for double on scalping sites
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link
<3 "the world is crowded" <3
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 13:03 (nine years ago) link
Saw them live for free at Montreux Jazz last week. Intimate concert which is my favorite kind of concert. There weren't many people in there, 100+ at most, it was on a small venue called the rock cave so you can't fit that many people in there. They were perhaps one of the highlights of the whole week for me. You don't get the lo-fi live so they sound even better than on record. Mountain-hipster drummer was a highlight.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 20 July 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
this guy:
http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/St+Jerome+Laneway+Festival+Auckland+I573P74_d_Dl.jpg
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 20 July 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
Singer kind of looks like a white John Legend.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 20 July 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
Nice necklace
― calstars, Monday, 20 July 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
i like this dude's songs a lot
agree that the jams on the new album are 'multi-love' 'can't keep checking my phone' and 'world is crowded'
listening to all three albums, you can see him playing around with the same small set of musical ideas that would eventually become the best songs on the new album
it's nothing revelatory or mindblowing, but very nice little style that i'm fond of. also the albums are all short, i like short albums
― flopson, Friday, 7 August 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
Monki is so funki
― calstars, Saturday, 8 August 2015 02:00 (nine years ago) link
this performance is so rad http://pitchfork.com/news/60944-unknown-mortal-orchestra-perform-cant-keep-checking-my-phone-on-conan/
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 27 August 2015 03:04 (nine years ago) link
yeah that was great
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 27 August 2015 03:14 (nine years ago) link
Dude in a sailors hat on the congas
― calstars, Thursday, 27 August 2015 03:21 (nine years ago) link
this is one of those bands that actually deserves the cliche "hard to categorize" in a good way
― five six and (man alive), Thursday, 27 August 2015 03:46 (nine years ago) link
that dude on congas is Connan Mockasin
― Captain Maximus, Thursday, 27 August 2015 04:15 (nine years ago) link
I've always been in love with this band but you have to hear them live if you're still unconvinced. It's incredibly contrasting to hear how energetic "cant keep checking my phone" sounds live and the album version. They need a better producer for the next album, they're being choked on the lo-fi setting.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 27 August 2015 07:26 (nine years ago) link
I'll see if I can upload some of the crappy videos I took on my phone of them at Montreux Jazz. There were only like 80 persons in there but they were amazing.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 27 August 2015 07:31 (nine years ago) link
i laughed out loud at the guitar toss, spin, split move.i dig this band but my interest seems to wane when listening to a whole album. some great tracks though.
― mizzell, Thursday, 27 August 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link
the new album isn't lo-fi at all
― flopson, Thursday, 27 August 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
this record is exactly what i wanted the tame impala record to be but wasn't
I like how this sentence is a renewable sentiment
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 August 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
when i first heard this record through my roommates wall i thought it was neo-soul
(that's an endorsement)
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 August 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Empress OfFREE SHOW - July 30 – Saturday – 6:00pm – Central Park, Manhattanhttp://www.cityparksfoundation.org/event/summerstage-unknown-mortal-orchestra-empress/
― ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 02:24 (eight years ago) link
SB-04 is up on soundcloud
― calstars, Sunday, 25 December 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/unknownmortalorchestra/sb-5
― calstars, Sunday, 25 December 2016 02:40 (seven years ago) link
This year’s Installment. Lots of ideas https://soundcloud.com/unknownmortalorchestra/sb-05
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 21:39 (six years ago) link
Not in love we’re just high
― calstars, Saturday, 3 March 2018 01:19 (six years ago) link
is there a new album out?
― flopson, Saturday, 3 March 2018 08:41 (six years ago) link
Almost Ruben is freaking great
― calstars, Saturday, 10 March 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
New album and no one cares lol @ilm
― calstars, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:14 (six years ago) link
mate it was released yesterday, gotta give me a change. neways thx 4 the tip, listening now. i adored multi-love
― flopson, Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:35 (six years ago) link
I gave it kind of a cursory listen on Friday and it sounded nice. gonna dig into it again soon.
― Simon H., Sunday, 8 April 2018 02:37 (six years ago) link
Thought there might have been talk in one of the NZ music threads.
Liked these two interviews (one w/Taika Waititi):
http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/39590/1/unknown-mortal-orchestra-ruban-nielson-taika-waititi-interview
https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/news/14116/Interview-Unknown-Mortal-Orchestra-Talks-About-New-Album-Sex--Food.utr
― etc, Sunday, 8 April 2018 03:30 (six years ago) link
thanks for that !
― calstars, Sunday, 8 April 2018 03:41 (six years ago) link
(bit of a sidetrack, but ha, that Dazed interview has somehow hit the mainstream NZ tabloid/talkback circuit, oh dear:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/featured/09-04-2018/irrefutable-proof-taika-waititi-is-wrong-and-nz-is-not-racist-as-fuck/ )
― etc, Monday, 9 April 2018 10:01 (six years ago) link
some next level terrible writing in this Pitchfork review today, jfc:
UMO’s mildew-covered fourth record
shellshocked R&B and emaciated soul
like Thundercat master tapes fished from a river
sounds washed-out and strangled, like a downbeat Prince rarity recorded on a dictaphone in Arthur Russell’s pocket
ends with a miniature, mortally wounded sax solo
The new Unknown Mortal Orchestra album? Well, for one thing, wear gloves, because it comes covered in mold. It has also experienced some sort of PTSD, and is now skinny as a toothpick as a result. Poor record! But it gets worse. You won't believe this, but...it got thrown into a river! Oh, my bad, that's a different record. Let's fish it out and have a look. Oh, it's a Thundercat master! Not a dub or a rough mix, mind you, but a master! Let's play it anyway, despite the river water. Hmmm...sounds like one of those common-ass dictaphone recordings Arthur Russell was always making of obscure Prince songs that always have the misfortune of being garrotted. God, I am so sick of those! OK, gotta go - the ambulance just arrived with a sax solo. He's hurt pretty bad. I don't think the little feller's gonna make it!
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 9 April 2018 11:55 (six years ago) link
Lol
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 9 April 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
If anything this sounds like something I'd really want to check out tbh
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 9 April 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
Hunnybee my early favorite ... so smooth and tender
― calstars, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
perfect example of indie rock score inflation, where a review that reads like it's trashing the album nonetheless gives it ★★★½
― flopson, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 04:27 (six years ago) link
I read a little bit of his AMA on Reddit and he basically reamplifies everything he records more than once it seems, hence all that yucky jizz and mildew Pitchfork found. He tweeted about it yesterday when the review was published saying something like "the language you use to describe me is disgusting" but deleted it almost immediately.
Clairo endorses Honeybee tho
every1 should get hi and dance to this- advice from claire pic.twitter.com/y9qI5KZljv— clairo (@clairecottrill) April 10, 2018
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 06:26 (six years ago) link
or even Hunnybee
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 06:44 (six years ago) link
Internet of Love also nice and smooth
― calstars, Friday, 13 April 2018 02:17 (six years ago) link
i like this
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 13 April 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDsmgYRh6nA
― vmajestic, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/53RUStfBVyyAu4se0AHMrM?si=IbB7qCrCS9CBL6NtfrhtqwOn a separate note, sex and food and the album before it are kind of let downs after the greatness and mystery that was “II” ...
― calstars, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
the sky ferreira remix was dope
― ritual showdown (Ross), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
I really like Sex & Food, like, a lot more than anything I've heard from them before. Just love the sound of every instrument, so tactile (and admittedly I checked it out after hearing an interview where he talked about bouncing tracks to cassette multiple times).
Also it's weird that it has such a dumb album title when the track titles are so good.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 4 March 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
I do skip the more rockin' tracks, like the second track and American Guilt.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 4 March 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
I like II best. S and F I have not returned to
― calstars, Monday, 4 March 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
II holds up, really good record
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 16:09 (one year ago) link
Not seen much discussion of V, which I like much better than anything since II. Anyone else into it? There are four of five songs on here I absolutely love and think are among the best things this band has done
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 23 March 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
I haven’t listened to it. My interest in this guy really soured around the time of multi-love.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 23 March 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
yeah, this one's my favourite UMO in years!!
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 23 March 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
Feeling this today, love the textures/recording/mixing
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 23 March 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
Yeah this is really good.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 24 March 2023 14:43 (one year ago) link
Loving it!
― calstars, Saturday, 1 April 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link
It's funny, I still think of them as like a festival-headlining act so I've been surprised at how little I've heard people talking about this new record, which I like more every time I play it, which I have been doing very often.
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 1 April 2023 00:32 (one year ago) link