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Black Moth Super
Rainbow
Eating Us (Graveface)
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. With support slots
opening for Flaming Lips and Aesop Rock, the oft-camera shy
outfit was soon positioned 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. Recorded at Tarbox Road Studios,
Eating Us marks the first time BMSR has ventured
into a modern recording studio. Production and partial tracking
were handled by Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, MGMT, Weezer)
whose hands and ears were the only ones trusted to keep the
freaked out wiggles and hairy candies fully in-tact, while
also expanding them in a more realistic space.
Now a six piece, BMSR could come or go at any time, however
2009 promises a return to touring.
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