In the Randomised Record series, I take us both on an adventure to (re)discover my record collection. Fate decides: whether it be that obscure grunge album I bought recently or that emo rap record from 2017. Nothing is safe from the hands of the randomiser! I will listen to the entire album and highlight my favourite song off of it here on the blog. Do I still enjoy my records as much as when I bought ‘em? Let’s find out. Today, episode 20: ‘Multi-Love’ (2015) by Unknown Mortal Orchestra.

Another oopsie by the randomiser today, as it chose VUKOVI’s ‘NULA’ once more. After it had chosen King Gizzard’s ‘K.G.’ twice during this segment already, this marks the second double we get. Obviously, I’m not reviewing that album again, so another roll of the dice provided us with this record by Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Quite a good choice, since I can’t remember the last time I played this album and looking at the tracklist, there’s not that many songs I recognise either. I suppose this will be a great rediscovery… or will it?

It seems a bit odd that I own a record of which I barely recognise any songs off of the tracklist. Well, you see, I once got gifted this record. Or, my friend wanted to get rid of it and I didn’t mind taking it off him for free. Based on ‘Multi-Love’ and ‘Can’t Keep Checking My Phone’, I figured the rest of the album would be decent at least, so it wouldn’t do no harm adding it to my collection. To be fair, the biggest surprise of this record was its colour, since I wasn’t aware this was a funky coloured specimen when I took it from my mate. Cool! Maybe one day I can colour-coordinate the records in my collection, wouldn’t that be a fun thing to do. According to Discogs, there’s supposed to be an additional 12” included in this package which features  2 songs making for a so-called ‘sonic exploration’ spanning over 40 (!) minutes. I suppose I’m not too upset that those aren’t included here today. I do wonder if my friend still has it lying around somewhere.

I think I can count myself lucky that I get to listen to this album on a day like today, which is (at the time of writing) a lovely sunny spring day. I’ve just finished tidying up the garden and I’m ready for the weekend to kick in and I must say, the songs on this album definitely add an extra layer of happiness on top of what is already quite a good day. It does make me realise that this certainly is an album I wouldn’t enjoy as much on a rainy day. Pretty much the entire first half of the record is as danceable as can be and I suppose that’s all you would really like from a funky, psychedelic leaning indie record like this one. The only downfall is that, as soon as a song pops up that isn’t quite as uplifting, I’m kind of dozing off and losing concentration on what’s going on. Therefore, the best thing to do in that case is make sure we spread the happiness rather than the doziness.