Unknown Mortal Orchestra's sound is something of a mystery. While it's bathed in a lo-fi aesthetic, it has managed to evolve and grow through genres such a psychedelic, punk and even disco through ...

Unknown Mortal Orchestra began as a bedroom project of ex-Mint Chicks guitarist Ruban Nielson, intended mostly for his own benefit. After the first anonymous single spread from blog to blog, ...

Psychedelic rock band Unknown Mortal Orchestra is back with its fourth album, Sex & Food, out Friday.The title "was my attempt to make a name that was dumb and simple, and go past politics," says ...

Unknown Mortal Orchestra return from a five-year gap between albums next month with V, the globe-trotting indie pop project’s first LP since 2018’s Sex & Food and IC-01 Hanoi.. UMO mastermind ...

Curse serves as Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s second release of the year following March’s instrumental EP IC-02 Bogotá. It’s his first non-instrumental release since his 2023 double album V .

Unknown Mortal Orchestra had a sold-out show at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday, after selling out theaters in Vancouver, Seattle and Portland leading up to the Observatory, ...

Unknown Mortal Orchestra are preparing to release the double album V.Singles “Layla,” “I Killed Captain Cook,” “Nadja,” “That Life,” and “Weekend Run” have all been shared so ...

Ruban Nielson, the driving force in Unknown Mortal Orchestra, came to Portland a few years ago thinking his music career was over. The guitarist grew up in New Zealand and played in a punk band ...

Unknown Mortal Orchestra unpack and explore modern life and its myriad afflictions and phenomena, from restless leg syndrome to rapture, in the peculiar new video for “Can’t Keep Checking My ...

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra has already shown us the twisted, dark depths of psychedelia. On the band’s two album catalog to this point, New Zealand native Ruban Nielson exhumed the ghosts of ...

Every year for the past few Christmases, Unknown Mortal Orchestra have shared an extended instrumental track to celebrate the season. This year is no different and today, like "SB-01," "SB-02 ...