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Unknown Mortal Orchestra (also known as UMO) is a New Zealand psychedelic rock band from Auckland and now based in Portland, Oregon. fronted by multi-instrumentalist Ruban Nielson, assisted by his brother Kody Nielson and bassist Jacob Portrait. Nielson started the band in 2009, initially as a solo project.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra received positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 73, based on 16 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
Ruban Nielson (born 20 February 1980) is a New Zealand musician, singer and songwriter, and the frontman of the psychedelic rock band Unknown Mortal Orchestra.He has won two Aotearoa Music Awards and an APRA Silver Scroll, over the course of his band's five studio albums and one extended play.
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On 25 June 2021, the single "Weekend Run" was released with an accompanying music video filmed by Amanda Hugenquist and edited by Chloe Hemingway. [4] The video depicts bandleader Ruban Nielson performing a variety of daily activities, including playing video games, riding an exercise bicycle, eating meals, and sitting beside a swimming pool while drinking from a bottle of champagne.
Following the release, UMO embarked on a tour through the UK, Europe, the US and Canada, with many sold out dates. Touring continued in Europe through that November, before heading to Australia and New Zealand for a string of headline shows in December. On 12 August, UMO performed Multi-Love on Late Night with Seth Meyers. [10]
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UMO can refer to: Unknown Mortal Orchestra, a psychedelic rock band from New Zealand; United Macedonian Organisation: Ilinden–Pirin, a Macedonian organization in Bulgaria; University of Maine at Orono (unofficial abbreviation) Mozilla Add-ons, a website formerly referred to as UMO (from update.mozilla.org) UMO Jazz Orchestra, a Finnish big band