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May 22, 2015Nielson and Unknown Mortal Orchestra have created a genuinely psychedelic pop gem in the sense that it has virtually zero on in common with what psych-pop is supposed to sound like. What's more, the results are easily infectious enough for us to join them without hesitation on this richly rewarding ride into the unknown.
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May 12, 2015Nielson strides away from the woozy Beefheart-indebted psychedelia of ‘II’ and its self-titled 2011 predecessor, and vividly expands every single aspect of the UMO sound.
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UncutMay 12, 2015Containing only nine lithe and varied songs, Multi-Love is anything but a whimsical indulgence. [Jun 2015, p.79]
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May 26, 2015Unknown Mortal Orchestra can now sit back and smile at the fact they’ve written an album which could just as easily be this year’s Channel Orange as it could be its Lonerism.
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May 28, 2015The end result of Unknown Mortal Orchestra's third outing is a intoxicating concoction of brooding psychedelic musings, complete with otherworldly synths and fluttering modulations, on one of the most complicated and divisive topics one could imagine a pop record taking on.
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May 12, 2015Ruben Nielson returns with another anachronistic beauty. [Apr-May 2015, p.87]
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Jun 8, 2015Once a few months pass and the buzz has died down, this will no longer be a groundbreaking album about the complexities of modern relationships. It will just be another very good album.
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May 20, 2015By deconstructing traditional geometries of desire, they’ve made their most fully realized album yet.
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Jun 9, 2015Multi-Love demonstrates that the band isn’t beholden to a singular, lo-fi aesthetic. And for now, that’s more than enough.
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Jun 1, 2015The music is furtively detailed; it’s full of asymmetrical melodies and harmonic detours, bits of countermelody and instrumental interludes. Behind the cheesy facades, Mr. Nielson’s latest batch of songs deals with a complicated roundelay of heartache, androgyny, drugs, decadence and regret.
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May 28, 2015Multi-Love is more than just a brilliantly designed sonic facade--its excoriation of modern psycho-sexual mores is impossible to resist, so too its musical detail and understanding.
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May 27, 2015While his latest album is obviously rooted in Nielson’s present, it still brims with the same introspective nostalgia that comes with dusting off those old memories, and old records.
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May 26, 2015Multi-Love is a squelchy, seductive update of UMO’s nagging groove, now with added whoa-factor.
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May 26, 2015By building his own synths and meeting his troubles head-on, Nielson has created a bizarre take on romance, one that for the most part breeds devastating results.
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May 22, 2015UMO definitely have hit their stride with this record, solidifying their place as one of this era's premiere groove-rock bands.
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May 21, 2015Ruban Nielson might have tangled his emotions beyond repair during the making of his band’s third album, but you can’t deny the subject matter is compelling.
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Q MagazineMay 12, 2015With Multi-Love, Nielson has concocted an intoxicating brew. [Jun 2015, p.113]
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May 26, 2015This is Nielson's most accomplished album, though it's not his most direct, or brash, or explosive.
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Jul 24, 2015Just as in his personal life, Multi-Love sees Nielson coloring outside the lines for a vibrant vision of connection.
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MagnetJun 8, 2015An inventive, truly out-of-time pop record that never registers as nostalgic. [No. 121, p.61]
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May 26, 2015Multi-Love is definitely a departure from his previous work, but he has both the skill and the passion to pull it off. Ironically, where the album stumbles a bit is on the more experimental tracks.
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May 21, 2015What Multi-Love lacks in immediacy it mostly makes up for in aesthetic.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 69 out of 72
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Mixed: 2 out of 72
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Negative: 1 out of 72
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