Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & FoodWhere are we headed? What are we consuming, how is it affecting us, and why does everything feel so bad and weird sometimes? These are some of the questions posed on Ruban Nielson's fourth album as Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Sex and Food. Recorded in a variety of locales from Seoul and Hanoi to Reykjavik, Mexico City, and Auckland, Sex and Food is a practical musical travelogue, with local musicians from the countries that Neilson and his band visited

Respected for his work with Blue Oyster Cult and the Dictators

The Radiophonic Workshop

Snapped Ankles are moving on

it's riffs gilding the melody & adding flecks of gold to Nance's tale of poverty and grace

A feature-length documentary on the band is currently in the works

In the early 2000s he wrote a trilogy of albums around the history of Essex

almost Byrds-esque soundscape

and Hartmut Geerken of Goethe Institut vowed to create Egypt's first jazz big band

Label: Elektra ‎– EKS-74049Format: LP

sold-out tours

a spirit of soundsystem-inspired collaboration and experimentation runs through the heart of an album that is born out of some spontaneous moments of togetherness and periods of intense personal reflection for its creator

the Desire for an Aquatic Life