This Friday, New Zealand duo Unknown Mortal Orchestra will return to Hong Kong to perform at This Town Needs in Kowloon in support of their new album, Food. The performance will be their first ...

Ruban Nielson had no idea what he was in for when he uploaded a song called “Ffunny Ffrends” to his Bandcamp page under the moniker Unknown Mortal Orchestra in the spring of 2010. Taste-making ...

A few songs into Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s fifth album, there’s an extraordinary sound. It’s not a musical one, however – at least not in the conventional sense. In the final moments of ...

Li’s sound is easy to spot with the keyboards a key component of this record’s sound and a natural addition to the sonic palette of Unknown Mortal Orchestra. He is allowed to cut loose on some solos ...

Even though Unknown Mortal Orchestra outgrew its home-recording roots long ago to become the sort of globetrotting entity liable to record a single album across four continents, their work has ...

Psychedelia is typically characterised as an inward journey. Over the course of two albums with Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Ruban Nielson seemed to be following the prescribed route, with 2013’s ...

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The festival’s fourth edition covers two separate weekends, with Cold War Kids, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, G-Eazy, and Band of Skulls among the acts appearing at Tilt! (July 4-6) and Peach Pit ...