BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW
Emerging blinking into the sunlight from the backwoods of Pennsylvania, USA, BMSR comprise vocoder wielding front man Tobacco, backed by the forces known as The Seven Fields of Aphelion, Power Pill Fist, D.Kyler and Father Hummingbird. |
01. Born On A Day The Sun Didn't Rise
02. Born On A Day The Sun Didn't Rise (demo)
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01. Born On A Day The Sun Didn't Rise
02. Dark Bubbles
03. Twin of Myself
04. Gold Splatter
05. Iron Lemonade
06. Tooth Decay
07. The Fields Are Breathing
08. Smile the Day After Today
09. The Sticky
10. Bubblegum Animals
11. American Face Dust
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"A trippy marvel" - The Guardian
25 April - CMU, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
19 May - Red Mile Round Barn, Lexington, Kentucky
20 May - Bottom Lounge, Chicago, Illinois
21 May - High Noon Saloon, Madison, Wisconsin
22 May - Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota
25 May - Sasquatch Festival, The Gorge, Washington
26 May - Holocene, Portland, Oregon
28 May - Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco, California
29 May - Troubadour, Los Angeles, California
30 May - Detroit Bar, Costa Mesa, California
31 May - Rhythm Room, Phoenix, Arizona
02 June - The Mohawk, Austin, Texas
03 June - Hailey's, Denton, Texas
04 June - Sticky Fingerz, Little Rock, Arkansas
05 June - Exit/In, Nashville, Tennessee
06 June - Skullys, Columbus, Ohio
19 June - Pilot Light Knoxville, Tennessee
20 June - City Stages Music & Arts Festival Birmingham, Alabama
21 June - Southgate House Newport, Kentucky
27 June - Grog Shop Cleveland, Ohio
30 June - Magic Stick Detroit
24 July - Seaport Music Festival, New York, New York
25 July - Johnny Brenda’s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
26 July - Rock and Roll Hotel Washington DC, Washington DC
27 July - Ottobar Baltimore, Maryland
28 July - Nashwa Asheville, North Carolina
29 July - Drunken Unicorn Atlanta, Georgia
30 July - Backbooth Orlando, Florida
31 July - Crowbar Tampa, Florida
01 August - White Room Miami, Florida
03 August - Local 506 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
04 August - Outback Lodge Charlottesville, Virginia
27 August - Iron Horse Northampton, Massachusetts
28 August - ICA Boston, Massachusetts
13 September - All Tomorrow's Parties, Monticello, New York
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Black Moth Super Rainbow has crept from the forests and cities to make Eating Us, their dark bubblegum freakout for 2009. The first fully hi-fi BMSR record, Eating Us adds space and dimension to the band's sticky, off-kilter melodies. This isn't an album about witches and woods, and this time around the band isn't letting on to what it all might mean. Because to them, it's just better that way.
The modern musical unit known as Black Moth Super Rainbow first emerged from an obscure Pennsylvania forest glen in 2003 to relay a somewhat confounding sound with Falling Through a Field. Over the next few years, that peculiar sound developed, and the cult of BMSR began. With the release of their naturally-sweetened, candy-coated, and acclaimed 2007 treat, Dandelion Gum, a number of curious listeners bent their ears and adjusted their listening habits to incorporate Black Moth Super Rainbow’s oddly creepy and off-beat sweet audio plyings. A string of tours supporting big brothers Flaming Lips and Aesop Rock positioned the oft-camera shy outfit in front of thousands of brand new sonically adventurous music enthusiasts who weren't necessarily prepared for the eccentric visuals of BMSR's surreal live show, but would hopefully emerge changed, and be better off for it.
Their new full length presentation for 2009, Eating Us, promises to up the ante on the fidelity and melodies that BMSR have become known for. Here, the merry cryptic band has added some new flavors to their already well-established rainbow of sounds, with even more dense layers of lushly complex orchestration, intensely rhythmic drumming from a live, human drummer, vocoder vocals that are anything but robotic, and thick, undulating bass tones.
Eating Us marks the first time BMSR has ventured into a modern recording studio, being partially tracked and fully produced by Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, MGMT, Weezer) at Tarbox Studios, who was the only choice of producer for notedly anti-studio BMSR quasi-frontman Tobacco. Only Fridmann’s hands and ears were trusted to keep the freaked out wiggles and hairy candies fully in-tact, while also expanding them in a more realistic space.
This music agreeably dwells in contradiction; the songs contained herein have a feel both earnestly nostalgic, and hauntingly futuristic. Should the robots working in our factories, vacuuming our floors, and operating our gaming consoles choose to rise up and revolt, Eating Us could, perhaps, be used to serve as the first indication that our beloved machines had begun to understand the subtle complexities of human emotion.
These beat heavy, hook-laden, eerily comforting sonic capsules are as complex as a circuit board and as contagious as the common cold. For all those whose ears opt take part in listening, be forewarned that each and every track of Eating Us is equally apt to infest the more delicate portions of your cerebral cortex and nest into any readily available nook, cranny, or unprotected cavity of your susceptible brain with a very minimal chance of being easily ousted.
Now a six piece, BMSR could come or go at any time, however 2009 promises a return to touring.
Full deluxe CD version comes with 16 page art booklet and hairy summer jewel case jacket.
