Multi-Love

Multi-Love
Studio album by Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Released	May 26, 2015
Recorded	2015
Genre	Psychedelic rock indie rock indie pop psychedelic soul
Length	42:15
Label	Jagjaguwar
Producer	Ruban Nielson Kody Nielson
Unknown Mortal Orchestra chronology
II (2013) Multi-Love (2015)
Singles from Multi-Love
"Multi-Love" Released: February 5, 2015 "Can't Keep Checking My Phone" Released: April 20, 2015

Multi-Love is the third studio album from the band Unknown Mortal Orchestra. It was released on May 26, 2015.^[1] 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.^[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	78/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
The Guardian	[5]
The Irish Times	[6]
NME	9/10[7]
The Observer	[8]
Pitchfork Media	7.1/10[9]
Q	[10]
Rolling Stone	[11]
Spin	8/10[12]
Uncut	9/10[13]

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".^[3]

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."^[14] 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."^[15]

Accolades

Publication	Accolade	Year	Rank
Consequence of Sound	Top 50 Albums of 2015	2015	32[16]
The Guardian	The Best Albums of 2015	2015	18[17]
NME	NME's Albums of the Year 2015	2015	10[18]
Uncut	Uncut's Best Albums of 2015	2015	12[19]

Track listing

All tracks written by Ruban Nielson. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Multi-Love"	4:11
2.	"Like Acid Rain"	2:02
3.	"Ur Life One Night"	4:28
4.	"Can't Keep Checking My Phone"	4:16
5.	"Extreme Wealth and Casual Cruelty"	6:05
6.	"The World is Crowded"	4:20
7.	"Stage or Screen"	3:26
8.	"Necessary Evil"	5:18
9.	"Puzzles"	7:03
Total length:		42:15

Charts

Chart (2015)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[20]	45
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[21]	70
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[22]	158
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[23]	37
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[24]	14
UK Albums (OCC)[25]	44
US Billboard 200[26]	98
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[27]	7
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[28]	12
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[29]	5

References

1. Coplan, Chris (February 5, 2015). "Unknown Mortal Orchestra announce new album, Multi-Love". Consequence of Sound.
2. Hutchinson, Kate (2015-06-09). "Unknown Mortal Orchestra: 'I can't tell what I'm supposed to keep private now'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
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4. Sendra, Tim. "Multi-Love – Unknown Mortal Orchestra". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
5. Jonze, Tim (21 May 2015). "Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Multi-Love review – a breakup record with a difference". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
6. Murphy, Lauren (22 May 2015). "Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Multi-Love | Album Review". The Irish Times. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
7. Homewood, Ben (8 May 2015). "Unknown Mortal Orchestra – 'Multi-Love'". NME. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
8. Empire, Kitty (24 May 2015). "Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Multi-Love review – a squelchy update of UMO's nagging groove". The Observer. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
9. Larson, Jeremy D. (26 May 2015). "Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Multi-Love". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
10. "Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Multi-Love". Q (347): 113. June 2015.
11. Exposito, Suzy (24 July 2015). "Multi-Love". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
12. Brown, Harley (27 May 2015). "Review: Unknown Mortal Orchestra Welcomes the Private Into Public on the Kaleidoscopic 'Multi-Love'". Spin. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
13. "Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Multi-Love". Uncut (217): 79. June 2015.
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