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Jump,n and pump'n Oct 22, 2009
This album is amazing, containing more adverse synths and harder sounds than their last album. Though the main element is not lost, loose psychedelic guitar riffs, they continue to bring about a change in the scene for the better, adding to an already astounding catalogue.
Mindbending electric Sep 07, 2009
This album is the best thing to listen to with a lot of people of the right temperment. It is very trippy electronica mixed with vocoder falsetto vocals. All the songs have interesting names and excellent lyrics. The closest thing I can come to describing the sound is like candy for the ears, just pure sugar.
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 Higher Fidelity at No Extra Charge! Jun 09, 2009
Yet another morsel of psychedelic acid-tinged sweetness from Black Moth Super Rainbow. "Eating Us" takes everything that was great about "Dandelion Gum," the bubbly analogue synths (their adjective, not mine), the vocoder-heavy vocals, and puts it all through a higher-fidelity filter. While I'm more of a fan of the warmer, tape-saturated production on their previous effort, the music itself is still as strong as ever. The melodies are still deliciously lazy and the synths will wash you away into a hazy dream. Also, the clearer production gives allows the lyrics to be heard (slightly) more clearly, though, whether or not that is a merit is also debatable. Indie-tronic is too generic to do this group justice. Just listen to the clips here on the site and you'll know right away if you're ready to join BMSR on their pink cotton candy cloud.
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dark bubblegum freakout for 2009 May 26, 2009
About Black Moth Super Rainbow:
After a year of eerie, stilted silence, the sun shines and the shadows reappear. 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.
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