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Me Myself and I

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UMO's ability to create some amazing music out of minimal equipment, as well as change genres up and still be able to tie it into a style that feels very original really opened my eyes to making a lot out of nothing. Ruban specifically likes to play around with his guitar and his tunings which has greatly inspired me.

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Hendrix is a large inspiration to Ruban's guitar style, Ruban stating “I like the haziness of what he does, the way he bends the [guitar] neck and makes the notes wobble.” You can hear this influence quite a lot on Major League Chemicals. Richard Bienstock, 2015, Inside Ruban Nielson’s Heady Homegrown Pop, RollingStone.com

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Ruban's guitar sound is rough, fuzzed out and pretty gnarly. Ruban states that one of his inspirations for this is a lot of punk music including the Buzzcocks, this being early inspirations for a young Ruban Neilson. Him and his brother started out making music in a punk band The Mint Chicks. Patrick D. Mcdermott, Larry Fitzmaurice, 2015, Before Unknown Mortal Orchestra, There Was The Mint Chicks, thefader.com

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Kevin Parker's way of locking himself in a room for months, Multitrack recording instrument after instrument to create wonderful soundscapes full of emotion. Tame Impala has inspired me greatly in alot of aspects. His use of Multi track recording has made me really experiment with building large soundscapes as a solo artist.

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Ruban being a self-Professed “Frank Zappa rip-off” he has taken large amounts of Zappa's general weirdness and Guitar virtuosity whilst maintaining an original sound to it all, This shows quite a bit in Ruban's overall vibe, He has the passion of Zappa. Carlos De Loera, 2018, Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Ruban Nielson talks art and New Zealand music, Chron.com

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Kevin, whilst looking to make "something crazy" looked into Supertramp for inspiration for his second album Lonerism. Kevin got a buzz out of their music and the fact that they had an explosive quality with a huge sound with introspective lyrics. David Marchese, 2012 Tame Impala’s Surprising ‘Lonerism’ Influence: Supertramp, Spin.com

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"I got into this album because my brothers were into it – they listened to a lot of grunge. That time – I was 10 or 11 – was all about discovering rock music and realising how bad-ass it was." Silverchair is what inspired Kevin to want to make music and what paved his way of musical identity and showed him that you can be young and make good music. Killian Fox, 2013,Kevin Parker: soundtrack of my life, theguardian.com

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During the creation of his first album Innerspeaker Kevin wore his influences on his sleave, One being Smashing Pumpkins Kevin states “It was like an indescribable cross between optimistic and sad music,” what mostly inspired him was the way they made melodies move around in a nonlinear way. Patrick Doyle, 2020, Musicians on Musicians: Kevin Parker & Billy Corgan, Rollingstone.com