Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us reviews
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| Popmatters |
There is something disconcerting about the promise of “the first fully hi-fi Black Moth Super Rainbow record”. That statement appears in the press release for Eating Us, so it is a perceived selling point for the album. Yet it will probably cause suspicion among listeners who favor the band’s lo-fi approach. After all, Black Moth Super Rainbow has built and maintained quite a mystique by creating distressed, rough-around-the-edges psychedelic pop that more resembles “found sound” than many products that actually carry such a label. That tension between discovery and obfuscation has informed both the sound and image of the band, whose members have traditionally resisted providing any direct context for their music or identities. To look at available photographs of the band is to notice a mischievous dodge that, like the music, creates an appealing mystery by remaining at arm’s length. In that sense, Black Moth Super Rainbow has benefited from playing on the imagination of listeners to a degree all too uncommon in an overexposed era....full text |
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| Guardian |
| This Pennsylvania quintet make sweetly robotic psychedelia, all vocoders, plinkety-plonk synths and whooshing sound effects, like Flaming Lips remixed by Boards of Canada. A trippy marvel....full text |
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| Rollingstone |
| This Pittsburgh group's cryptic 2007 Dandelion Gum raised a question: Why is its leader named Tobacco and not Cannabis? Gum was some seriously stoned-sounding business, analog-synth clouds billowing around barely intelligible vocodered vocals. The like-minded follow-up enlists Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann, who highlights the tingly interplay between acoustic and electronic instruments and the processed vocals, which generally sound like T-Pain tripping his balls off. The melodies are sweet like cotton candy and dissolve as quickly. But that's fine. You may not want lyrics like "neon lemonade, eat my face away" stuck in your head for too long....full text |
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