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“The sweetest, catchiest, most impeccably crafted music Unknown Mortal Orchestra has made.”
NPR Music

“[Multi-Love] is Ruban Nielson’s strongest record yet, a sublime mash of psychedelia and R&B that incredibly evokes a Stevie Wonder — that is, if Stevie Wonder was from New Zealand and strongly considered the existence of chemtrails.”
The Fader

“Funk has sashayed its way back into the forefront of music, and almost no one is incorporating it better than Unknown Mortal Orchestra.”
Stereogum

Just announced for Meredith Music Festival, Unknown Mortal Orchestra – the Portland via New Zealand outfit fronted by psychedelic visionary Ruban Nielson – will return to Australia for a run of national dates in December.

Nielson and his cohorts from his adopted hometown – bassist Jacob Portrait, drummer Riley Geare, and keyboardist Quincy McCrary – will play at Perth’s Astor Theatre on Thursday December 3, Sydney’s The Metro Theatre on Friday December 4, Brisbane’s The Triffid on Sunday December 6 and Melbourne’s Corner Hotel on Tuesday December 8. It’ll mark UMO’s first shows since their exclusive dates at the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival in 2014.

Already one of the year’s best albums, Multi-Love follows the introspective and road-weary II (2013) and their self-titled 2011 debut, which blew the lid off the bedroom project started by Nielson following his relocation to Portland and the dissolution of the Mint Chicks.

First single ‘Multi-Love’ – described by The Herald Sun as “UMO’s Paranoid Android” – sees Nielson’s vocals soar to new heights. In its 4/5 star review, The Guardian’s Tim Jonze said the album takes it cues from soul music, but splashes “the canvas with futurist synths and trippy vocal effects”. FasterLouder declared Multi-Love as the band’s “best LP yet”, while Tone Deaf described it as “a whirlwind and entirely strange adventure that leaves you breathless and exhilarated”. Watch the kaleidoscopic video for new single ‘Ur Life One Night‘ – described by its director Manoj Leonel Jahson as a “sexually charged riot” – here.

Though conceived in the bedroom, UMO are a force to be reckoned with on stage. With Geare and Portrait locking down a tight groove, Nielson’s guitar prowess really comes to the fore. The band’s songs often descend into extended psychedelic jams, and with the addition of McCrary on keys, their new material – as well as favourites from their first two records – has taken on an extra dimension live. Don’t miss them when they play songs from Multi-Love in Australia for the very first time. UMO will be supported by New Zealand three-piece, Las Tetas. Formed by auntie-niece combo Lucy and Charlotte with their buddy Kristal on guitar; they play a brand of cathartic punk rock that in their own words tears “feigned neo-jangle ‘sincerity’ to shreds”.

UMO recently performed on Late Night with Seth Meyers and are scheduled to perform on Conan later this month. Multi-Love is out now on Jagjaguwar through Inertia.

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA TOUR DATES
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Tickets for all shows on sale Friday 21 August 9AM (local time)

Thursday 3 December – Astor Theatre, Perth (18+)
www.astortheatreperth.com or 08 9370 1777

Friday 4 December – Metro Theatre, Sydney (18+)
www.ticketek.com.au or 132 849

Sunday 6 December – The Triffid, Brisbane (18+)
www.thetriffid.com.au or 1300 762 545

Tuesday 8 December – Corner Hotel, Melbourne (18+)
www.cornerhotel.com or 1300 724 867

Also Appearing at Meredith Music Festival, Victoria and Fairgrounds, New South Wales.