A stark contrast to the euphoric and energetic narrative of the video for 'Layla', the sequel video depicts the two young women after they have separated. The album's fifth single, 'Nadja', was released on 21 February 2023 with another visual directed by Vira-Lata. The video is the first part of a two-part series chronicling the adventures of two young women bonded through a passionate but ephemeral friendship. The single was accompanied by a music video directed by the Brazilian directing duo Vira-Lata.

The album was officially announced on 2 February 2023, alongside the release of the fourth single 'Layla'. An accompanying Super 8 music video directed by Ruban Nielson was released alongside the single, featuring his mother hula dancing on the beach at Keaukaha in Hilo, Hawaii. On 25 October 2022, 'I Killed Captain Cook', was released with a press release indicating the song would appear on a forthcoming double album to be released in 2023. Camera shots occasionally zoom out to reveal that each of the puppet's locations are fabricated sets in a studio. The sense of reality is skewed throughout the video as the camouflaged puppeteers are increasingly made visible. The video ends with the puppet left in a daze, drooling and sweating profusely.

He returns dressed only in his underwear, but resumes his dancing in an restless stupor.

The scene shifts to a desert, where the puppet is abducted by aliens. As the puppet dances beside a swimming pool, he begins drinking and losing his grip on reality. The puppet was created by puppeteer and fabricator Laura Manns, who has worked with The Muppets and Sesame Street. The single was accompanied by a surrealist music video directed by Lydia Fine and Tony Blahd that features a dancing blue puppet modeled after Ruban Nielson. Ī second single, 'That Life', was released on 4 August 2021. The video depicts bandleader Ruban Nielson performing a variety of daily activities, including playing video games, riding an exercise bicycle, eating meals, and sitting beside a swimming pool while drinking from a bottle of champagne. On 25 June 2021, the single 'Weekend Run' was released with an accompanying music video filmed by Amanda Hugenquist and edited by Chloe Hemingway. Promotion and release Singles and music videos It also features their father, saxophonist and flutist Chris Nielson, and longtime Unknown Mortal Orchestra member Jacob Portrait. The album's performers include bandleader Ruban Nielson and his brother, Kody. It was created in Palm Springs, California, and Hilo, Hawaii. The album was influenced by 'West Coast AOR, classic hits, weirdo pop and Hawaiian Hapa-haole music'. V is the fifth studio album by New Zealand band Unknown Mortal Orchestra, released on 17 March 2023 through Jagjaguwar.

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