IC-01 Hanoi

"What really strikes is how, being instrumental, the album is free to go to deeper and earthier places, places the submarine falsetto of previous albums couldn't take it. It's an album that sets out to excite and take risks and be messy. Alternately visceral and cerebral, and building with a whole new set of tools, UMO's second release this year feels like a band bursting from their bubble; saying plenty about both Nielson's fevered creativity, and the future of his cherished project".

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"While not necessarily essential to the UMO catalog, Hanoi finds the band reveling in its psychedelic roots and exploring a primeval darkness that their songs often only hint at".

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"AllMusic Reviewby Tim Sendra [-]IC-01 Hanoi is quite different from anything else in the Unknown Mortal Orchestra catalog. While in Vietnam recording the 2018 album Sex & Food, group leader Ruban Nielson, his brother drummer Kody Nielson, and bassist Jacob Portrait took some time out from the sessions to lay down some electric jazz tracks ... Overall, IC-01 Hanoi is interesting and shows that the band does have impressive range, but it's not quite an essential piece of the UMO puzzle".

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