Portland-based Kiwi psych rockers Unknown Mortal Orchestra follow 2018's 'IC-01 Hanoi' with another instrumental set, drawing on their recent time in Colombia to inspire a jazz-flecked travelogue that introduces their new keyboard player Christian Li.
More faded than a lost archival tape, 'IC-02 Bogotá' sounds as if it was pirated multiple times to various overused cassettes, in the best possible way. UMC try to capture the tangy flavor of their surroundings on this one, playing the kind of spiralized outsider disco and psych-inflected jazz fusion that you'd expect to find on a Sublime Frequencies release. Spend a few minutes with the ferric opener 'Earth 1' and you'll get the picture, but the album kicks into a different gear with 'Heaven 7', a euphoric intermingling of cosmic, warbled synths and bossa snaps.
We get more of a sense of the band's surroundings on the cumbia-knocked 'Earth 3', but this one's all about the 15-minute 'Underworld 6' - an unhinged jam that drapes druggy synthprovisations over galloping, hotwired drum machine burps.
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Portland-based Kiwi psych rockers Unknown Mortal Orchestra follow 2018's 'IC-01 Hanoi' with another instrumental set, drawing on their recent time in Colombia to inspire a jazz-flecked travelogue that introduces their new keyboard player Christian Li.
More faded than a lost archival tape, 'IC-02 Bogotá' sounds as if it was pirated multiple times to various overused cassettes, in the best possible way. UMC try to capture the tangy flavor of their surroundings on this one, playing the kind of spiralized outsider disco and psych-inflected jazz fusion that you'd expect to find on a Sublime Frequencies release. Spend a few minutes with the ferric opener 'Earth 1' and you'll get the picture, but the album kicks into a different gear with 'Heaven 7', a euphoric intermingling of cosmic, warbled synths and bossa snaps.
We get more of a sense of the band's surroundings on the cumbia-knocked 'Earth 3', but this one's all about the 15-minute 'Underworld 6' - an unhinged jam that drapes druggy synthprovisations over galloping, hotwired drum machine burps.
Portland-based Kiwi psych rockers Unknown Mortal Orchestra follow 2018's 'IC-01 Hanoi' with another instrumental set, drawing on their recent time in Colombia to inspire a jazz-flecked travelogue that introduces their new keyboard player Christian Li.
More faded than a lost archival tape, 'IC-02 Bogotá' sounds as if it was pirated multiple times to various overused cassettes, in the best possible way. UMC try to capture the tangy flavor of their surroundings on this one, playing the kind of spiralized outsider disco and psych-inflected jazz fusion that you'd expect to find on a Sublime Frequencies release. Spend a few minutes with the ferric opener 'Earth 1' and you'll get the picture, but the album kicks into a different gear with 'Heaven 7', a euphoric intermingling of cosmic, warbled synths and bossa snaps.
We get more of a sense of the band's surroundings on the cumbia-knocked 'Earth 3', but this one's all about the 15-minute 'Underworld 6' - an unhinged jam that drapes druggy synthprovisations over galloping, hotwired drum machine burps.
Portland-based Kiwi psych rockers Unknown Mortal Orchestra follow 2018's 'IC-01 Hanoi' with another instrumental set, drawing on their recent time in Colombia to inspire a jazz-flecked travelogue that introduces their new keyboard player Christian Li.
More faded than a lost archival tape, 'IC-02 Bogotá' sounds as if it was pirated multiple times to various overused cassettes, in the best possible way. UMC try to capture the tangy flavor of their surroundings on this one, playing the kind of spiralized outsider disco and psych-inflected jazz fusion that you'd expect to find on a Sublime Frequencies release. Spend a few minutes with the ferric opener 'Earth 1' and you'll get the picture, but the album kicks into a different gear with 'Heaven 7', a euphoric intermingling of cosmic, warbled synths and bossa snaps.
We get more of a sense of the band's surroundings on the cumbia-knocked 'Earth 3', but this one's all about the 15-minute 'Underworld 6' - an unhinged jam that drapes druggy synthprovisations over galloping, hotwired drum machine burps.
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Portland-based Kiwi psych rockers Unknown Mortal Orchestra follow 2018's 'IC-01 Hanoi' with another instrumental set, drawing on their recent time in Colombia to inspire a jazz-flecked travelogue that introduces their new keyboard player Christian Li.
More faded than a lost archival tape, 'IC-02 Bogotá' sounds as if it was pirated multiple times to various overused cassettes, in the best possible way. UMC try to capture the tangy flavor of their surroundings on this one, playing the kind of spiralized outsider disco and psych-inflected jazz fusion that you'd expect to find on a Sublime Frequencies release. Spend a few minutes with the ferric opener 'Earth 1' and you'll get the picture, but the album kicks into a different gear with 'Heaven 7', a euphoric intermingling of cosmic, warbled synths and bossa snaps.
We get more of a sense of the band's surroundings on the cumbia-knocked 'Earth 3', but this one's all about the 15-minute 'Underworld 6' - an unhinged jam that drapes druggy synthprovisations over galloping, hotwired drum machine burps.