My friend from university suggested that I listen to Unknown Mortal Orchestra one day in an English literature lecture one day in 2017. I don’t know how we got to that topic. But at some point she asked ‘Do you listen to [the group]?’ to which I replied ‘No… heard of them though.’ You know that standard reply. She said ‘You should, I think you’d be into them.’ I took her advice on board. I went home and listened to Multi-Love not too long afterwards. I have to thank her because it was an album that I added to the library with no hesitation. This was/is a great record.

A lot of the tracks on Multi-Love are based on UMO’s songwriter Ruban Nielson’s polyamorous relationship he had with his wife and a younger Japanese woman. The others are about drug-taking, partying, and feeling overwhelmed in the position of being a musician. ‘Like Acid Rain’ concerns the drug-taking aspect. In two minutes among a funky beat and washed out guitar chords, Nielson sings about buying some opiates and hallucinogenics and then seeing some weird actions going on while under the influence.

I always find myself air-drumming to this one. The fills during the ‘la-la-la’ hooks are so off the wall and erratic and they brilliantly close out the song too. “You and I are doomed to burn like white people in the sun” is a lyric on there that I’ve slightly side-eyed too sometimes. One of those ones where I’m not sure whether it’s meant to be a little joke or not. But apart from that there’s nothing I despise about this one. It’s a track that keeps things moving swiftly in the track list.