Neil Krug
Unknown Mortal Orchestra‘s new album Sex & Food will be released on April 6th.
The news has been marked with a video for the previously shared American Guilt, directed by Greg Sharp, which Ruban Nielson has described as his attempt to ‘capture some of the feelings floating around these days’. “In a perverse way I wanted to embrace this abandoned genre of rock music that I keep reading is ‘dead’ and invite people to hear what this living dead genre sounds like in the UMO universe,” he continued.
“It was recorded in Hanoi, Vietnam during monsoon season in a studio built for traditional Vietnamese music. Additional recording was done in Mexico City but our sessions were interrupted by one of the devastating earthquakes that occurred there last year. As we slept in the Parque de Mexico, unable to get back to our Air BnB, we heard a man yell “Viva la Mexico!” and I put this in the song out of respect for them.”
A world tour will bring UMO to the UK in May for gigs in London, Bristol, Manchester and Leeds.
Tour dates:
April
22 – Northampton, MA, Pearl Street
23 – Portland, ME, Port City Music Hall
25,26 – Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Steel
27 – Washington, DC, 9:30 Club
28 – Philadelphia, PA, Union Transfer
30 – Boston, MA, Royale
May
1 – Montreal, QC, Corona Theatre
2 – Toronto, ON, Danforth Music Hall
3 – Chicago, IL, Vic Theatre
4 – Minneapolis, MN, First Avenue
7 – Seattle, WA, The Moore Theatre
8 – Vancouver, BC, Commodore Ballroom
9 – Portland, OR, Roseland Theater
10 – Oakland, CA, Fox Theater
11 – Los Angeles, CA, The Wiltern
12 – Pioneertown, CA, Pappy and Harriet’s
18 – Hamburg, Germany, Uebel & Gefährlich
19 – Berlin, Germany, Kesselhaus
20 – Heidelberg, Germany, Karlstorbahnhof
21 – Düsseldorf, Germany, zakk
22 – Paris, France, La Gaîté Lyrique
24 – London, United Kingdom, Roundhouse
25 – Bristol, United Kingdom, SWX
26 – Manchester, United Kingdom, Strange Waves
27 – Leeds, United Kingdom, World Island
28 – Brussels, Belgium, Ancienne Belgique
June
10 – Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands, Best Kept Secret Festival
July
6 – Richmond, VA, The National
7 – Asheville, NC, The Orange Peel
8 – Atlanta, GA, Variety Playhouse
9 – Athens, GA, Georgia Theatre
11 – New Orleans, LA, Republic
12 – Houston, TX, White Oak Music Hall
13 – Austin, TX, Stubbs BBQ
14 – Dallas, TX, Granada Theater
16 – Englewood, CO, Gothic Theatre
17 – Ogden, UT, Ogden Amphitheatre
18 – Las Vegas, NV, Vinyl at Hard Rock
19 – Phoenix, AZ, Crescent Ballroom