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Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Unknown Mortal Orchestra is a group from Portland, active since 2010.

Group Portland since 2010 indie rock psychedelic rock indie
TOTAL PLAYS
1,722
SONGS PLAYED
138
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2011-03-24 01:49 · Radio 1 — "How Can U Love Me"
LAST PLAYED
2 weeks ago · 6 Music — "Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark)"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2011 — 2026
400 300 200 100 0
'11 '13 '15 '17 '19 '21 '23 '25
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 1,582 92%
Radio 1 121 7%
Radio 2 10 1%
1Xtra 9 1%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 19:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Can't Keep Checking My Phone 231 2026-08-20
2 Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark) 168 2026-08-26
3 American Guilt 136 2026-05-21
4 So Good at Being in Trouble 128 2026-07-14
5 Everyone Acts Crazy Nowadays 127 2025-11-27
6 That Life 119 2026-08-12
7 First World Problem 103 2026-08-19
8 Multi-Love 92 2025-10-14
9 Necessary Evil 55 2023-07-02
10 Layla 53 2025-12-26
11 Hunnybee 38 2026-08-04
12 Meshuggah 37 2023-09-02
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-08-26 15:23 Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark) 6 Music
2026-08-20 06:09 Can't Keep Checking My Phone 6 Music
2026-08-19 11:11 First World Problem 6 Music
2026-08-12 06:47 That Life 6 Music
2026-08-06 04:58 Can't Keep Checking My Phone 6 Music
2026-08-05 11:19 Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Necessary Evil 6 Music
2026-08-04 23:00 Hunnybee 6 Music
2026-07-24 07:14 Can't Keep Checking My Phone 6 Music
2026-07-20 11:44 Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark) 6 Music
2026-07-14 12:58 So Good at Being in Trouble 6 Music
2026-05-23 21:23 I Killed Captain Cook 6 Music
2026-05-21 08:57 American Guilt 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

138 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
A God Called Hubris — 2 ▶
American Guilt — 136 ▶
American Guilt (6 Music Session, 27 February 2018) — 2 ▶
American Guilt (Marc Riley - 6 Music Session 27.02.2018) — 1 ▶
Baby — 2 ▶
Baby (6 Music Session, 19th May 2015) — 1 ▶
Baby (6Music Session, 19 May 2015) — 4 ▶
Bicycle — 1 ▶
BOYS WITH THE CHARACTERISTICS OF WOLVES — 3 ▶
Can't Keep Checking My Phone — 231 ▶
Can't Keep Checking My Phone (6 Music Session, 19th May 2015) — 1 ▶
Can't Keep Checking My Phone (6Music Session, 19 May 2015) — 5 ▶
Can't Keep Checking My Phone (Glastonbury, 24 June 2016) — 4 ▶
Chronos Feasts On His Children — 1 ▶
Chronos Feasts On His Children (Marc Riley - 6 Music Session 27.02.2018) — 1 ▶
DEATH COMES FROM THE SKY — 7 ▶
Drag — 5 ▶
Everyone Acts Crazy Nowadays — 127 ▶
Extreme Wealth and Casual Cruelty — 5 ▶
Faded in the Morning — 9 ▶
FFunny Ffrends — 17 ▶
Ffunny Ffrends (6 Music Lauren Laverne Session, 21 Nov 2011) — 1 ▶
Ffunny Ffriends - 6Music Session 21/11/2011 — 1 ▶
First World Problem — 103 ▶
First World Problem (Radio Edit) — 1 ▶
From the Sun — 4 ▶
From The Sun ( 6 Music Session for Marc Riley 6th June 2013) — 1 ▶
Guilty Pleasures — 5 ▶
Guilty Pleasures (Instrumental) — 2 ▶
Hanoi 1 — 3 ▶
Hanoi 6 — 1 ▶
Hanoi 7 — 1 ▶
How Can U Love Me — 1 ▶
How Can U Luv Me — 37 ▶
How Can U Luv Me - 6 Music Session 21/11/2011 — 1 ▶
How Can U Luv Me? — 36 ▶
How Can U Luv Me? (6 Music Lauren Laverne Session, 21 Nov 2011) — 2 ▶
How Can U Luv Me? - 6Music Session 21/11/2011 — 2 ▶
How Can You Love Me — 10 ▶
How Can You Love Me ( 6 Music Session for Marc Riley 6th June 2013) — 2 ▶
How Can You Love Me (6 Music Session, 6 May 2013) — 1 ▶
How Can You Love Me? — 1 ▶
How Many Zeros — 2 ▶
Hunny Bee — 1 ▶
Hunnybee — 38 ▶
Hunnybee (Baltra Remix) — 2 ▶
I Killed Captain Cook — 8 ▶
I Killed Captain Cook (Instrumental) — 1 ▶
I'll Come Back 4 U — 1 ▶
IAT: Unknown Mortal Orchestra pt 3 into Necessary Evil — 1 ▶
If You're Going to Break Yourself — 4 ▶
If You're Going To Break Yourself (6 Music Session, 27 February 2018) — 2 ▶
If You're Going To Break Yourself (Marc Riley - 6 Music Session 27.02.2018) — 1 ▶
Jello and Juggernaughts (6 Music Lauren Laverne Session, 21 Nov 2011) — 2 ▶
Jello And Juggernaughts - 6Music Session 21/11/2011 — 2 ▶
Keaukaha — 2 ▶
Layla — 53 ▶
Layla (Instrumental) — 3 ▶
Like Acid Rain — 2 ▶
Major League Chemicals — 4 ▶
Meshuggah — 37 ▶
Monki — 5 ▶
Monki ( 6 Music Session 4 Feb 2013) — 1 ▶
Multi Love — 3 ▶
Multi-Love — 92 ▶
Multi-Love (Glastonbury, 24 June 2016) — 1 ▶
Multi-Love (radio edit) — 1 ▶
Multi-Love - 6 Music Festival - RX 22/02/2015 — 1 ▶
Multi-Love MARY ANNE VERSION DO NOT PLAY — 1 ▶
Mutli-Love (Radio Edit) — 1 ▶
Nadja — 8 ▶
Nadja (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
Necessary Evil — 55 ▶
Necessary Evil (Glastonbury, 24 June 2016) — 2 ▶
Necessary Evil -DO NO PLAY — 1 ▶
Nerve Damage! — 1 ▶
No Need For a Leader — 16 ▶
No Need For A Leader (Marc Riley Session 140213) — 1 ▶
No Need For A Leader - 6 Music Session for Marc Riley 14.2.2013) — 1 ▶
Not in Love We're Just High — 6 ▶
Not In Love, We're Just High — 1 ▶
One At A Time — 1 ▶
ONE HUNDRED BATS — 1 ▶
Opposite Of Afternoon ( 6 Music Session for Marc Riley 6th June 2013) — 1 ▶
Opposite Of Afternoon (6 Music Session, 6 May 2013) — 1 ▶
Opposite of Afternoon (6 Music Session, 14th June 2023) — 1 ▶
Putting It Down — 3 ▶
Satanic Planet — 2 ▶
Secret Xtians — 6 ▶
Shakedown Street — 3 ▶
Sittin' On The Dock of The Bay (6 Music Session, 6 May 2013) — 1 ▶
So Good at Being in Trouble — 128 ▶
So Good At Being In Trouble ( 6 Music Session for Marc Riley 6th June 2013) — 2 ▶
So Good At Being In Trouble (6 Music Festival 2015) — 6 ▶
So Good at Being In Trouble (Glastonbury, 24 June 2016) — 1 ▶
So Good At Being In Trouble (Marc Riley session 27.11.13) — 1 ▶
So Good At Being In Trouble - 6Music Session - 040213 — 1 ▶
So Good At Being In Trouble/From The Sun (6 Music Session, 6 May 2013) — 1 ▶
Stage On Screen — 1 ▶
Stage On Screen (6Music Session, 19 May 2015) — 2 ▶
Stage or Screen — 3 ▶
Strangers Are Strange — 9 ▶
Strangers are Strange ( 6 Music Session 4 Feb 2013) — 1 ▶
Swim & Sleep (Like A Shark) (Acoustic) — 1 ▶
Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark) — 168 ▶
Swim And Sleep (Like A Shark) ( 6 Music Session for Marc Riley 6th June 2013) — 2 ▶
Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark) (6 Music Festival 2015) — 4 ▶
Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark) (6 Music Marc Riley Session, 6 May 2013) — 1 ▶
Swim And Sleep (Like A Shark) (6 Music Session, 6 May 2013) — 1 ▶
Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark) (Acoustic Version) — 3 ▶
Swim And Sleep (Like A Shark) (Glastonbury 2023) — 2 ▶
Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark) (Marc Riley session 27.11.13) — 1 ▶
Swim and Sleep like a Shark (Riley Session) — 2 ▶
Swing Lo Magellan — 1 ▶
Swing Low Magellan — 1 ▶
That Life — 119 ▶
That Life (6 Music Session, 14 Jun 2023) — 10 ▶
That Life (Glastonbury 2023) — 2 ▶
That Life - (6 Music Session, 14th June 2023) — 3 ▶
The Beach — 8 ▶
The Beach (Instrumental) — 1 ▶
The Garden — 1 ▶
The Garden (Glastonbury 2023) — 1 ▶
The Garden 6 Music Session, 14th June 2023) — 2 ▶
The Internet of Love (That Way) — 25 ▶
The Internet Of Love (That Way) (6 Music Session, 27 February 2018) — 4 ▶
The Opposite of Afternoon — 2 ▶
The Widow — 2 ▶
The World Is Crowded — 4 ▶
The World Is Crowded (Glastonbury, 24 June 2016) — 1 ▶
This Doomsday — 3 ▶
Thought Ballune — 1 ▶
Thought Ballune>Lil Blu>Necessary Evil>Monki - (6 Music Session, 14th June 2023) — 2 ▶
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Necessary Evil — 1 ▶
Unnecessary Evil — 1 ▶
Ur Life One Night — 4 ▶
Weekend Run — 13 ▶
Weekend Run (Instrumental) — 3 ▶