debut UK album ‘Eating Us’ out 8th June + free mp3
Introducing the enigmatic Black Moth Super Rainbow, their debut UK psych space rock album ‘Eating Us’ is released on the 8th June through Memphis Industries. This is preceded by the single ‘Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise’, which is out on the 18th May on 7” and also as a free download.
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 (comprising vocoder wielding front man Tobacco backed by four mysterious musical forces known as The Seven Fields of Aphelion, Power Pill Fist, D.Kyler and Father Hummingbird) first emerged from an obscure Pennsylvania forest glen in 2003. Over the next few years, their peculiar beat laden, synth and vocoder driven 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, Aesop Rock and MGMT and they’ve now garnered many musical admirers from Diplo to The Go! Team to Wayne Coyne of the Lips (who named the song “I Was Zapped by the Lucky Super Rainbow” after them).
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. 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.
Black Moth Super Rainbow are set to bring their surreal visuals heavy live show to Europe for the first time this summer.
Full deluxe CD version comes with 16 page art booklet and hairy summer jewel case jacket.
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 (comprising vocoder wielding front man Tobacco backed by four mysterious musical forces known as The Seven Fields of Aphelion, Power Pill Fist, D.Kyler and Father Hummingbird) first emerged from an obscure Pennsylvania forest glen in 2003. Over the next few years, their peculiar beat laden, synth and vocoder driven 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, Aesop Rock and MGMT and they’ve now garnered many musical admirers from Diplo to The Go! Team to Wayne Coyne of the Lips (who named the song “I Was Zapped by the Lucky Super Rainbow” after them).
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. 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.
Black Moth Super Rainbow are set to bring their surreal visuals heavy live show to Europe for the first time this summer.
Full deluxe CD version comes with 16 page art booklet and hairy summer jewel case jacket.
Tracklisting:
Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise
Dark Bubbles
Twin of Myself
Gold Splatter
Iron lemonade
Tooth Decay
The Fields Are Breathing
Smile the Day After Today
The Sticky
Bubblegum Animals
American Face Dust
Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise
Dark Bubbles
Twin of Myself
Gold Splatter
Iron lemonade
Tooth Decay
The Fields Are Breathing
Smile the Day After Today
The Sticky
Bubblegum Animals
American Face Dust
