Multi-Love


Multi-Love is the third studio album from the band Unknown Mortal Orchestra. It was released on 26 May 2015. The track "Can't Keep Checking My Phone" was featured by EA Sports on FIFA 16.
The title Multi-Love is a reference to the polyamorous relationship frontman Ruban Nielson had with his wife and a younger woman from Tokyo, Japan for a year, before her visa expired and the relationship ended. The topic is a prevalent theme in the album's lyrics.

Critical reception

Multi-Love received largely 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 78, based on 25 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Jeremy D. Larson of Pitchfork labeled it as Nielson's "most accomplished album".
Nina Corcoran of Consequence of Sound gave the album a favorable review, stating, "By deconstructing traditional geometries of desire, they’ve made their most fully realized album yet." Mack Hayden of Paste praised the album, stating, "Unknown Mortal Orchestra can now sit back and smile at the fact they’ve written an album which could just as easily be this year’s Channel Orange as it could be its Lonerism. But then again, what makes it even better is how it’s still so distinctively UMO’s that it really can only be 2015’s Multi-Love." In October 2019, Multi-Love placed at no.18 on 's list of "The 25 best psychedelic rock albums of the 2010s".

Accolades

Track listing

Notes
  • signifies a co-producer.
  • signifies an additional producer.

    Personnel

  • Ruban Nielson – guitar, synthesizer, vocals, bass, percussion, sitar, hurdy gurdy, strings ; production, engineering, mixing ; layout
  • Kody Nielson – drums, piano, percussion, synthesizer, bass, backing vocals ; co-production, additional engineering
  • Jacob Portrait – bass ; co-production, additional production, additional engineering
  • Riley Geare – additional drums, percussion ; additional engineering
  • Chris Nielson – horns
  • Duke Aipolani – percussion
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Marla Celeste – cover image
  • Miles Johnson – layout

    Charts