Well, last
night’s Unknown Mortal Orchestra gig
was pretty damn blow your mind. The main man, Ruban Nielson, entered the stage back lit, in a swirl of dry ice, a
black poncho draped across his shoulders (see Daily Image.) Looking like a cool, modern day
bandit in search of Morricone, his
only victims for a hold up were melodic swathes of feedback, and warm washes of
reverb; before shooting them down with sharp bursts of sweet, fractured, heart
wrenching falsetto soul. The UMO
twitter account describes their sound as ‘psychedellic R&B’ and it is a
pretty fair assessment, swinging from emotional beauty to freak out drum solos,
stabbing guitar diversions wrapped in distortion, with the pulsating bass,
bridging the gaps, gelling the sound together. A varied set of first and second
album material was rounded off with a three-song encore. An acoustic version of
Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark) was
followed by the mesmerizing So Good At
Being In Trouble, before we were jerked back to the realm of freak out
psychedelia, as UMO were joined on
stage by Connan Mockasin for a
psychedelic, disco-funk, rendering of Vitamin
C by Can. Wow, catch your breath.
This musical bandit had captivated us all with his unique sound, before, in the
same way he had arrived, submerged in dry ice, poncho loosely hanging from his
shoulders, he unassumingly exited, stage left…
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