{"id":1151,"date":"2015-08-10T08:35:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T15:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2022-01-12T16:12:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T23:12:33","slug":"unknown-mortal-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/unknown-mortal-orchestra","title":{"rendered":"Episode 46: Unknown Mortal Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subhead\">&#8220;Multi-Love&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SongExploder46-600x298.png\" alt=\"Unknown Mortal Orchestra\" width=\"600\" height=\"298\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SongExploder46.png 600w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SongExploder46-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SongExploder46-560x278.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" width=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/play.prx.org\/e?uf=https%3A%2F%2Ff.prxu.org%2Fsong-exploder%2Ffeed-rss.xml&#038;ge=66026b14d14349adb7be7e9a4e55f948\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"download-links\">DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/unknown-mortal-orchestra-multi\/id788236947?i=349267773&#038;mt=2?&#038;uo=4&#038;at=10lMg6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTUNES<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/dovetail.prxu.org\/song-exploder\/a0f7f01b-12b7-4731-b16f-744775b3da87\/SongExploder46-UnknownMortalOrchestra-DT.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MP3<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Multi-Love is the title track from the 2015 album by <a href=\"http:\/\/unknownmortalorchestra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown Mortal Orchestra<\/a>. When the song was first released, it was named <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/tracks\/17321-unknown-mortal-orchestra-multi-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best New Track by Pitchfork<\/a>. In this episode, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unknown_Mortal_Orchestra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruban Nielson<\/a> tells the story of how he made the song with help from his brother Kody Nielson, and how it was influenced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0117509\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romeo and Juliet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Questlove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Questlove<\/a>, and a broken synthesizer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/multi-love\/id962057741?i=962057746&#038;uo=4&#038;at=10lMg6\"target=\"_blank\">Buy &#8220;Multi-Love&#8221; on iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a transcript of this episode, <a href=\"http:\/\/songexploder.net\/transcripts\/unknown-mortal-orchestra-transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"header\">footnotes<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbullmusicacademy.com\/lectures\/questlove-new-york-2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Questlove interview with Red Bull<\/a> (2013)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_qO_0ceE4Kw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quindon Tarver \u2013 Everybody\u2019s Free<\/a> (from the <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em> soundtrack)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Multi-Love&#8221; DOWNLOAD: iTUNES \u00b7 MP3 Multi-Love is the title track from the 2015 album by Unknown Mortal Orchestra. 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