The follow-up to their critically acclaimed record Multi-Love, Sex & Food sees UMO mastermind Ruban Nielson tap into both familiar and unexpected territory.
The delightfully shape-shifting album filters real-deal serious themes such as "What are we consuming? How is it affecting us, and why does everything feel so bad and weird sometimes?” through a vibrant sonic lens that spans battered drum-machine funk, doomy and thrashing rock, and pink-hued psychedelic disco. It’s not a dark record, per se. Even the album’s title, Sex & Food, focuses on two of the most undeniably pleasurable experiences in life; positivity despite the strangeness of our times.
Sex & Food was recorded in a variety of locales from Seoul and Hanoi to Reykjavik, Mexico City, and Auckland, not to mention Nielson's home base studio in Portland. It is a practical musical travelogue, traversing the world as well as a wide spectrum of human experience. Nielson grapples with new, sometimes dismal realities, but succeeds in pulling the epiphanies from the chafe.
Label:
Jagjaguwar – JAG322
Format:
CD, Album
Country:
US
Released:
06 Apr 2018
Genre:
Rock, Funk / Soul
Style:
Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic, Experimental
Tracklist
1 A God Called Hubris 0:41
2 Major League Chemicals 3:53
3 Ministry of Alienation 3:43
4 Hunnybee 4:28
5 Chronos Feasts on His Children 1:42
6 American Guilt 4:33
7 The Internet of Love (That Way) 4:57
8 Everyone Acts Crazy Nowadays 4:15
9 This Doomsday 3:32
10 How Many Zeroes 3:25
11 Not in Love We're Just High 3:38
12 If You're Going to Break Yourself 4:38
