Description
Regular Edition on Black Vinyl
The sixth studio album from New Zealand psych-rock band Unknown Mortal Orchestra, V.
Created between Palm Springs, California and Hilo, Hawai’i, V is the first double album from the Hawaiian-New Zealand singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Ruban Nielson’s Unknown Mortal Orchestra band. Designed to play as one continuous movement and road-tested on dry California freeways, V is the definitive Unknown Mortal Orchestra car record. It’s also the fifth full-length album Ruban has released in twelve years.
Across fourteen sunbleached songs - written solo or with his brother Kody - Ruban draws from the rich traditions of West Coast AOR, yacht rock, weirdo pop and Hawaiian Hapa-haole music. Over a laidback blend of singalong anthems and cinematic instrumentals, he evokes blue skies, afternoons spent lounging by hotel swimming pools and the alluring darkness that lurks below perfect, pristine surfaces. It’s a duality expressed in the dilapidated sunset blues and the salt-corroded soul Ruban explores through tracks like ‘Layla’ and ‘Nadja. ’
TRACKLIST:
SIDE A:
1. The Garden
2. Guilty Pleasures
3. Meshuggah
SIDE B:
4. The Widow
5. In the Rear View
6. That Life
7. Layla
SIDE C:
8. Shin Ramyun
9. Weekend Run
10. The Beach
SIDE D:
11. Nadja
12. Keaukaha
13. I Killed Captain Cook
14. Drag
