- Beauty & Essex (feat. Daniel Caesar & Unknown Mortal Orchestra) - Single · 2018
- II (10 Year Anniversary Edition) · 2013
- Multi-Love · 2015
- Sex & Food · 2018
- Multi-Love · 2015
- Multi-Love · 2015
- II (10 Year Anniversary Edition) · 2013
- Multi-Love · 2015
- Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (Deluxe) · 2020
- V · 2021
- V · 2023
- IC-01 Hanoi · 2018
- Chris Black Changed My Life · 2023
Essential Albums
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s third album filters the warped, psychedelic strangeness of 2011’s Unknown Mortal Orchestra and 2013’s II through the novelistic side of soul artists like Prince and Stevie Wonder. Named in part after multi-instrumentalist mastermind Ruban Nielson’s difficult foray into polyamory, Multi-Love explores huge themes (trust, love, family) with vintage synthesizers and analogue haze, flirting with disco (“Can’t Keep Checking My Phone”), funk (“Necessary Evil”) and soft rock along the way.
Albums
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2021
Artist Playlists
- New Zealand-bred noise with Brit rock, psych pop and a lil' funk.
Appears On
More To Hear
- The band on “Meshuggah” and Ellie Goulding live.
- Unscripted funk with Yebba Smith, Teddy Ray, and Cordae.
- Unscripted funk with Yebba Smith, Teddy Ray, and more.
- Laid back tracks from Anderson .Paak, Fela Kuti, and Kari Faux.
- Matt speaks to the band at Primavera.
- New Zealand psych rockers UMO, plus the legendary Mike Dean.
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About Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Based in Portland, Oregon, Unknown Mortal Orchestra (UMO) is a psychedelic-rock band led by New Zealand native singer-songwriter and guitarist Ruban Nielson. ∙ UMO’s 2010 debut single, “Ffunny Ffriends,” was praised by influential music blogs, and their 2011 self-titled debut LP won the Taite Music Prize, awarded to the best album from New Zealand. ∙ They recorded “Satanic Planet” with noted outsider artist Daniel Johnston for 2012’s Space Ducks (Soundtrack from the Game), a compilation based on Johnston’s comic book. ∙ In 2013, their sophomore LP, II, won Best Alternative Album at the New Zealand Music Awards. ∙ Multi-Love—which delved into the polyamorous relationship between Nielson, his wife, and another woman—rose to No. 7 on Billboard’s US Independent Albums chart in 2015. ∙ Recorded in the titular Vietnamese city, the experimental-jazz release IC-01 Hanoi was UMO’s second album of 2018, after Sex & Food, and its first instrumental LP.
- FROM
- Auckland, New Zealand
- FORMED
- 2010
- GENRE
- Alternative