IC-01 Hanoi is the first instrumental album by New Zealand band Unknown Mortal Orchestra,released on 26 October 2018 through Jagjaguwar.[3] It is the group's second album of 2018 after Sex &Food,released in April,and their first instrumental album.[3] The album was recorded entirely in the city of Hanoi,Vietnam,and originated from sessions for Sex &Food,[4][3] with frontman Ruban Nielson's father,Chris Nielson,also contributing instrumentation to the record.[3]
The first single,the nearly 10-minute ambient and freeform "Hanoi 6",was released on 25 September 2018.[1] The album was promoted by a series of shows across Europe and the UK,[5] as well as Asia and several in Mexico.[6]
Music
The album has been described as a "sonic distillation of the band's influences in Jazz,Krautrock and the avant garde",[1] as well as experimental jazz.[1] It was influenced by the works of Miles Davis.[1]
At Metacritic,which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications,IC-01 Hanoi received an average score of 66,based on eight reviews,indicating "generally favorable reviews".[7] Reviewing the album for Pitchfork,Andy Beta felt that "Ruban Nielson throws off his habitually weighty themes and digs into a refreshingly raw,heady session of psychedelic rock",also saying that the album "presents a visceral,smoky,casual session that cooks together fairly tumultuous moods over the course of its concise runtime".[2]
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