Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food (Vinyl)
The follow-up to their critically acclaimed record Multi-Love, Sex & Food sees UMO mastermind Ruban Nielson tap into both familiar and unexpected territory.
The delightfully shape-shifting album filters real-deal serious themes such as "What are we consuming? How is it affecting us, and why does everything feel so bad and weird sometimes?” through a vibrant sonic lens that spans battered drum-machine funk, doomy and thrashing rock, and pink-hued psychedelic disco. It’s not a dark record, per se. Even the album’s title, Sex & Food, focuses on two of the most undeniably pleasurable experiences in life; positivity despite the strangeness of our times.
Sex & Food was recorded in a variety of locales from Seoul and Hanoi to Reykjavik, Mexico City, and Auckland, not to mention Nielson's home base studio in Portland. It is a practical musical travelogue, traversing the world as well as a wide spectrum of human experience. Nielson grapples with new, sometimes dismal realities, but succeeds in pulling the epiphanies from the chafe.
Track Listing:
SIDE A:
- A God Called Hubris
- Major League Chemicals
- Ministry of Alienation
- Hunnybee
- Chronos Feasts on His Children
- American Guilt
- The Internet of Love (That Way)
- Everyone Acts Crazy Nowadays
- This Doomsday
- How Many Zeros
- Not in Love We're Just High
- If You're Going to Break Yourself
The follow-up to their critically acclaimed record Multi-Love, Sex & Food sees UMO mastermind Ruban Nielson tap into both familiar and unexpected territory.
The delightfully shape-shifting album filters real-deal serious themes such as "What are we consuming? How is it affecting us, and why does everything feel so bad and weird sometimes?” through a vibrant sonic lens that spans battered drum-machine funk, doomy and thrashing rock, and pink-hued psychedelic disco. It’s not a dark record, per se. Even the album’s title, Sex & Food, focuses on two of the most undeniably pleasurable experiences in life; positivity despite the strangeness of our times.
Sex & Food was recorded in a variety of locales from Seoul and Hanoi to Reykjavik, Mexico City, and Auckland, not to mention Nielson's home base studio in Portland. It is a practical musical travelogue, traversing the world as well as a wide spectrum of human experience. Nielson grapples with new, sometimes dismal realities, but succeeds in pulling the epiphanies from the chafe.
Track Listing:
SIDE A:
- A God Called Hubris
- Major League Chemicals
- Ministry of Alienation
- Hunnybee
- Chronos Feasts on His Children
- American Guilt
- The Internet of Love (That Way)
- Everyone Acts Crazy Nowadays
- This Doomsday
- How Many Zeros
- Not in Love We're Just High
- If You're Going to Break Yourself
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