UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA - SEX & FOOD 

Sex & Food by Unknown Mortal Orchestra is 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. The album 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. 

 

TRACKLISTING:  01. A GOD CALLED HUBRIS 02. MAJOR LEAGUE CHEMICALS 03. MINISTRY OF ALIENATION 04. HUNNYBEE 05. CHRONOS FEASTS ON HIS CHILDREN 06. AMERICAN GUILT 07. THE INTERNET OF LOVE (THAT WAY) 08. EVERYONE ACTS CRAZY NOWADAYS 09. THIS DOOMSDAY 10. HOW MANY ZEROS 11. NOT IN LOVE WE'RE JUST HIGH 12. IF YOU'RE GOING TO BREAK YOURSELF