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Edition: Limited Edition 2x Golden Nugget Vinyl LP
Condition: New

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V

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Original price £9.99 - Original price £29.99
Original price
£29.99
£9.99 - £29.99
Current price £29.99
Condition: New

Track Listing / Description
1 The Garden  
2 Guilty Pleasures  
3 Meshuggah  
4 The Widow  
5 In the Rear View  
6 That Life  
7 Layla 
8 Shin Ramyun  
9 Weekend Run  
10 The Beach  
11 Nadja  
12 Keaukaha  
13 I Killed Captain Cook  
14 Drag  
 
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. '