UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
NEW ALBUM 'Multi-Love' Friday 22 May on JAGJAGUWAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEtDVy55shI
SEE LIVE
Saturday 26 September at Whelans, Dublin
Unknown Mortal Orchestra have unveiled a video game to coincide with the release of their latest video, Multi-Love. In the words of the director Lionel Williams: “It is meant to represent the vacuum of space by impressing upon inter-dimensional unfolding, immaterial objects, and time-driven reverberation of events. The virtual space allows for most 3D objects to trail in time – based on the directions one moves. You can construct & paint the objects in space to stretch them in any direction, to create infinitely vast compositional spaces.”
The threads of our past never unravel, they hover like invisible webs, occasionally glistening due to a sly angle of the sun. On Multi-Love, Unknown Mortal Orchestra frontman and multi-instrumentalist Ruban Nielson reflects on relationships: airy, humid longing, loss, the geometry of desire that occurs when three people align. Where Nielson addressed the pain of being alone on II, Multi-Love takes on the complications of being together.
Multi-Love adds dimensions to the band’s already kaleidoscopic approach, with Nielson exploring a newfound appreciation for synthesizers. The new songs channel the spirit of psych innovators without ignoring the last 40 years of music, forming a flowing, cohesive whole that reflects restless creativity. Cosmic escapes and disco rhythms speak to developing new vocabulary, while Nielson’s vocals reach powerful new heights. “It felt good to be rebelling against the typical view of what an artists is today, a curator,” he says. “It’s more about being someone who makes things happen in concrete ways. Building old synthesizers and bringing them back to life, creating sounds that aren’t quite like anyone else’s. I think that’s much more subversive.”
While legions of artists show fidelity to the roots of psychedelia, Unknown Mortal Orchestra shares the rare quality that makes the genre’s touchstones so vital: constant exploration. Multi-Love is out 22nd May on Jagjaguwar.
PLAY
Download "MULTI-LOVE" app:
Mac: http://jagjaguwar.com/multi-love/MultiLoveInteractiveMAC.zip
PC: http://jagjaguwar.com/multi-love/MultiLoveInteractivePC.zip
Unity Pro Source file: http://jagjaguwar.com/multi-love/UMO_MultiLove_UnityProFiles.zip *
* If you have Unity Pro, you can not only explore the world but reshape and
redo it completely how ever you want, crafting your own world entirely.
Game instructions:
W ,A, S, and D keys move you around and your
mouse/trackpad controls where you look.
NEW ALBUM 'Multi-Love' Friday 22 May on JAGJAGUWAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEtDVy55shI
SEE LIVE
Saturday 26 September at Whelans, Dublin
Unknown Mortal Orchestra have unveiled a video game to coincide with the release of their latest video, Multi-Love. In the words of the director Lionel Williams: “It is meant to represent the vacuum of space by impressing upon inter-dimensional unfolding, immaterial objects, and time-driven reverberation of events. The virtual space allows for most 3D objects to trail in time – based on the directions one moves. You can construct & paint the objects in space to stretch them in any direction, to create infinitely vast compositional spaces.”
The threads of our past never unravel, they hover like invisible webs, occasionally glistening due to a sly angle of the sun. On Multi-Love, Unknown Mortal Orchestra frontman and multi-instrumentalist Ruban Nielson reflects on relationships: airy, humid longing, loss, the geometry of desire that occurs when three people align. Where Nielson addressed the pain of being alone on II, Multi-Love takes on the complications of being together.
Multi-Love adds dimensions to the band’s already kaleidoscopic approach, with Nielson exploring a newfound appreciation for synthesizers. The new songs channel the spirit of psych innovators without ignoring the last 40 years of music, forming a flowing, cohesive whole that reflects restless creativity. Cosmic escapes and disco rhythms speak to developing new vocabulary, while Nielson’s vocals reach powerful new heights. “It felt good to be rebelling against the typical view of what an artists is today, a curator,” he says. “It’s more about being someone who makes things happen in concrete ways. Building old synthesizers and bringing them back to life, creating sounds that aren’t quite like anyone else’s. I think that’s much more subversive.”
While legions of artists show fidelity to the roots of psychedelia, Unknown Mortal Orchestra shares the rare quality that makes the genre’s touchstones so vital: constant exploration. Multi-Love is out 22nd May on Jagjaguwar.
PLAY
Download "MULTI-LOVE" app:
Mac: http://jagjaguwar.com/multi-love/MultiLoveInteractiveMAC.zip
PC: http://jagjaguwar.com/multi-love/MultiLoveInteractivePC.zip
Unity Pro Source file: http://jagjaguwar.com/multi-love/UMO_MultiLove_UnityProFiles.zip *
* If you have Unity Pro, you can not only explore the world but reshape and
redo it completely how ever you want, crafting your own world entirely.
Game instructions:
W ,A, S, and D keys move you around and your
mouse/trackpad controls where you look.
