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Black Moth Super Rainbow: Eating Us

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BY Chris Bilton   May 20, 2009 21:05

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With a name like Black Moth Super Rainbow, you might assume this Brooklyn quartet make tripped-out psychedelic music that sounds best after the third bong hit — and you’d be exactly right. The melting organs, vocoder vocals and stoner-funk grooves that have come to define the BMSR sound are exactly what you’d want as a lava-lamp soundtrack. On their fourth full-length, Eating Us, BMSR have managed to refine the ideas captured on their sprawling ’07 disc Dandelion Gum and pare it down to 12 tracks of the catchiest acid-damaged melodies this side of Ween. While the production assistance of Flaming Lips engineer Dave Fridmann won’t likely generate the same hype afforded to his other recent endeavour, MGMT, Fridmann extracts the best strains from tracks like “Born on the Day the Sun Didn’t Rise”, “Iron Lemonade” and “Gold Splatter.” Eating Us is a good buzz through and through.

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