Unknown Mortal Orchestra cover Otis Redding classic for BBC


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Unknown Mortal Orchestra covered Otis Redding‘s 1967 single ‘(Sittin On) The Dock Of The Bay‘ for the BBC this week, listen to the audio below.

The trio were performing live on Marc Riley’s BBC 6Music show, and certainly did a good job of tackling the all time classic track.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s second album ‘II‘ arrived in February, and has proved to be one of Live4ever’s favourite records of the year so far.

“‘II‘ easily lives up to the anticipation, taking the sun-baked psych-pop simplicity that defined the first record and twisting it just enough to add a previously missing layer of musical and emotional depth,” our review reads.

“If the debut was a hook-filled series of summery singalongs, then this one is its reflective, late night counterpart that replaces a reliance on catchy choruses with a bent towards stretched-out ruminations on loneliness and isolation. Not to say that the hooks aren’t here, it’s just that they are woven right into the fabric of the song so much that they are sometimes hard to place.”


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