Whenever anything off Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s eponymous début of yesteryear crops up here (home), there (out), or indeed anywhere my heart flutters a jolty little dad-dance jig. Ffunny Ffrends is, and has been for quite some time, my jam ♫ although this, Ruban Nielson’s first release on Jagjaguwar, runs its eternal predecessor close. Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark) splashes about in the mellow neck pickup melancholy of the old full-length, although it’s this time tie-dyed with a greater songwriting conviction; that to have had now label mate Sharon Van Etten picking up plaudits as a vagrant does shuteye wherever she may vagabond. Dip in above.
8 months ago on September 18, 2012 at 04:01pm
