{"product_id":"unknown-mortal-orchestra-blue-record-lp-blue-vinyl","title":"Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Blue Record LP (Blue Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/unknown-mortal-orchestra\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/unknown-mortal-orchestra\/\"\u003eUnknown Mortal Orchestra\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoffers no new material on their\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlue Record\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eEP, but rather three reworkings of highlight tracks from their recent LP,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2013\/02\/album-review-unknown-mortal-orchestra-ii\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2013\/02\/album-review-unknown-mortal-orchestra-ii\/\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-weight: inherit;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: inherit;\"\u003eII\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, and two covers of songs by rock artists that dabble in similarly psychedelic waters. All five recordings were done straight to tape in frontman Ruban Nielson’s basement using nothing more than one acoustic guitar, one microphone, and two voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn the EP’s press release, Nielson explains that it was the work of Love’s Arthur Lee that convinced him the acoustic guitar (picking, specifically, as he strums no more than a few chords on this record) can produce provocative music, instead of always being “too twee for me, or something.” With minimal prior experience on acoustic, Nielson clearly has not definitively deemed these songs fit for stripping-down; he’s merely trying them on for size this way, and graciously offering up the results for public consumption. And, as further commitment to the experiment, he chose only the prime cuts of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eII\u003c\/em\u003e. “Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark)”, “So Good at Being in Trouble”, and “Faded in the Morning” certainly lose shelf life without their original arrangements, but those arrangements were never crutches for these songs, which are all plenty strong enough at their cores to validate the acoustic experimentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe most ambitious moment here is Nielson’s cover of the excellent title track from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/dirty-projectors\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/dirty-projectors\/\"\u003eDirty Projectors’\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e2012 album,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2012\/07\/album-review-dirty-projectors-swing-lo-magellan\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2012\/07\/album-review-dirty-projectors-swing-lo-magellan\/\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSwing Lo Magellan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, which is already an acoustic song in its original form (as is Beck’s original version of closing cover “Puttin’ It Down”). Again, his version creates nothing new to explore, but is adept, and doesn’t spoil one of last year’s best melodies. Likewise,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem style=\"font-weight: inherit;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: inherit;\"\u003eBlue Record\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eworks overall, but only on that single level, as a transparent exercise in an unfamiliar style for Nielson. As an EP, it’s not much to look at. But, as a quick footnote at the end of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eII\u003c\/em\u003e, where it’s placed on the album’s deluxe edition, it’s a nice bonus, an insight into an artist’s process.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"02- Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54915744301395,"sku":"656605224641.0","price":7.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1070\/4316\/0403\/files\/unknown_dd11eefe-8426-41ed-a93d-43cfc6562872.webp?v=1789401454","url":"https:\/\/globall-sports.myshopify.com\/products\/unknown-mortal-orchestra-blue-record-lp-blue-vinyl","provider":"GLOBALL SPORTS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}