Unknown Mortal Orchestra – ‘V’ limited edition golden nugget coloured vinyl 2LP.

Please note that due to the limited nature of this 2LP, we will only sell 1 copy per customer/household, multiple purchases will be cancelled.

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. ’

Tracklisting -

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