Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II (Vinyl) FEA 21/04/23 From Mick Jagger's breakup with

From Mick Jagger's breakup with Marianne Faithfull

with his life split between work in Los Angeles and his family in Wellington

First single Bic’s Birthday – sees baroque melodies skating with graceful aplomb over funky drum beats

The Beautiful Young Crew

7 Country Death Song

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II (Vinyl) FEA 21/04/23 From Mick Jagger's breakup withThe opening line on the second album from Ruban Nielson's Unknown Mortal Orchestra is a rather dark and compelling thought: "Isolation can put a gun in your hand". Nielson wrote most of the songs on II while he was on tour a whirlwind state of existence he's been trying to cope with since the first UMO album came out in 2010 and found international acclaim, and there's something in the new tracks that reflect the delirious lack of control, and often a