UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
Not every punk ascribes to the “disco sucks” movement. In fact, Unknown Mortal Orchestra frontman Ruban Nielson dives right into such highly danceable grooves on the new album Sex & Food , despite New Zealand-born Nielson’s neo-punk roots in prior bands like The Mint Chicks.
Nielson says he and his but turns that flirtation into a full on affair with songs like “Hunnybee,” the baseline and drums of which dazzle like sequence on a bell bottomed jumpsuit, with nary a pandering indie rock guitar riff in sight. Ruban Nielson recruited his brother Kody Nielson—who was his bandmate in The Mint Chicks, and began working with his sibling again on —to contribute danceable percussion on .
