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Topic: Black Moth Super Rainbow Posted: June 04 2013 at 15:20
So apparently these guys are in the archives, which I didn't even realize like till a couple of days ago. Kind of surprised actually, but hey that's cool. These guys are one of my favourite groups ever. I've listening to so much of their stuff lately. Such an abstract and psych sound, I haven't even heard anyone that comes close. Have a stab at em!
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Posted: June 04 2013 at 21:01
Great band, cazh fan ;
Armed with vocoders, Novatrons, and a liberated sense of music strictly as art, this mysterious
group of mad scientists makes some very neat stuff and with frequent but perfectly added surface
noise, Black Moth Super Rainbow's Start a People is much like finding some funky old LP in
the dollar box at a b&m record shop, taking it home, and being both appalled and enraptured at
the nerve someone had putting this stuff to vinyl.
But there's something there that makes you keep it, something interesting, unique, just plain fun,
maybe important but probably not, and eventually, maybe years or decades later, you pull it out and
listen and realize why you thought it was so fascinating in the first place. These nameless five
want us to forget it's an arty emulation, they want us to feel as if we're experiencing a real
artifact of music history's bloated and dingy past, and it works beautifully. BMSR is often termed
"experimental", "neopsychedelic", "Indietronic", "synthpop" and a variety of other labels all fair,
none of which capture their sound. There is no denying the Chiptune/bitpop presence, suggesting a
group of guys reared on videogames and perfectly happy to simulate that culture in rock. Slightly
warped 'Raspberry Dawn' and its in-the-hood gangsta fever, streetwise 'Vietcaterpillar', urban
arcade adventures of 'I am the Alphabet', dreamy 'I Think it is Beautiful That You Are 256 Colors
Too' is reminiscent of the loop-driven postrock of Tortoise, and large 'Count Backwards to Black' &
'Early 70s Gymnastics' evokes that decade's UFO pop subculture. Think Leonard Nimoy's In Search
Of.
Full on Atari 8-bit Family explosions for 'Folks With Magic Toes', 'Trees and Colors and Wizards'
contrasted nicely by d. kyler's drums, 'Hazy Field People' is a layered and lush reprise, and jazzy
hidden cut 'Smile Heavy' is a fantastic old-fashioned electronic prog ditty.
Very cool if you're in the mood for something different, these gameboys put on no pretenses and
represent a tiny but special place in the experimental art-rock galaxy.
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