Black Moth Super Rainbow

**dookey67** · 04-16-2010, 09:54 PM

CDLV more or less turned me onto these cats a couple of Mammoth Minis ago (or maybe it was last spring, i can't remember exactly). When I say "more or less" it's because he was spinning some of their sounds at Ft. FKNA, but i wasn't really checking it. Then i stumbled upon a solo album from one of the members, Tobacco (http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...hlight=tobacco), and was hooked. Totally worth checking out it you like the synth sounds that populated Air's Moon Safari, the soundtrack to vintage Doctor Who, and other neo-psychedelic moog enhanced tomfoolery.

i've actually been spinning Dandelion Gum for the past week and have yet to tire of it. good stuff.

http://www.blackmothsuperrainbow.com/mpthree.htm

**cdlv** · 04-16-2010, 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by dookey67

Totally worth checking out it you like the synth sounds that populated Air's Moon Safari, the soundtrack to vintage Doctor Who, and other neo-psychedelic moog enhanced tomfoolery.

that might be the best description of BMSR ever

**dookey67** · 04-17-2010, 04:50 PM

danke.

i'd toss in the synth sounds from Looper's first album, Up A Tree, as well.

it's funny because i got to talking music with the dude parked next to me in the Sugarbowl parking lot yesterday and when I played BMSR for him the first thing he said was "That sounds a lot like Air's Moon Safari" to which I added, "Yeah, but without the vocals."

I need to cop some of their other albums for sure, plus that new off-shoot, The Seven Fields of Aphelion.

**BRUTAH** · 04-20-2010, 12:35 AM

i like their album with octopus project

**dookey67** · 04-20-2010, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by BRUTAH

i like their album with octopus project

seconded.

**blackhand** · 04-21-2010, 10:37 AM

black moth is sick, picked up one of the drippers scratch and sniff lp's but i got fucking dirt. bummer, i was hoping for bubblegum

**Poop~Ghost** · 04-21-2010, 11:10 AM

DL'ed and giving a shot. tnx dook, your suggestions are usually stuff I dig.

**candy123** · 04-28-2010, 01:31 AM

I spot this and steer well clear but I imagine a large number don't.

buy ugly betty dvd

**cdlv** · 04-28-2010, 06:01 AM

new tobacco disc has leaked

**dookey67** · 04-28-2010, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by cdlv

new tobacco disc has leaked

what's the verdict?

really ended up grinding Dandelion Gum to death on my most recent sojourn in Tahoe (2 weeks). That album is tits. Need to scoop up their earlier ones, I suspect.

spot-checked the Seven Fields of Aphelion on Amazon and was kinda non-plussed by it.

If y'all dig BMSR, might I suggest a group called Flowchart? Sorta similar, but not as dark.

**cdlv** · 04-28-2010, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by dookey67

what's the verdict?

first listen now, sounds exactly like you want Tobacco to sound, excelllent

**dookey67** · 09-09-2010, 01:19 AM

Dandelion Gum is quite excellent...

**dookey67** · 09-09-2010, 01:21 AM

and their most recent joint, Eat Us (which I just snagged last week) has been on heavy rotation n the dookey Taco Mama sound system during road trip adventures in patch skiing for the past 4 days straight.

**dookey67** · 08-11-2012, 02:58 PM

Kinda cool that one version of their new album will be a latex "Halloween" mask with a USB flash drive as one of the teeth in the mask.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...um-cobra-juicy

**Chugachjed** · 08-11-2012, 05:07 PM

BMSR has a new album coming out? Awesome! I always figured I was the only one that got down with lo-fi around here.

**dookey67** · 08-11-2012, 05:17 PM

Yup, October 23rd, 2012 is the projected release date for Cobra Juicy...

http://blackmothsuperrainbow.com/

New track, "Spraypaint", up on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/black-moth-sup...bow/spraypaint

**Chugachjed** · 08-11-2012, 05:56 PM

I can't believe I haven't gotten an email from soundcloud yet, ever since I bought Kishi Bashi's album they harass me every Damn day.

**dookey67** · 08-22-2012, 04:31 PM

crazy, squirreling, buzz chatter remix action:

http://soundcloud.com/black-moth-sup...asher-longmont

**dookey67** · 12-29-2012, 10:46 PM

BMSR's new album, Cobra Juicy, has taken a bit of time to grow on me. while not as readily immersive as their previous effort, Eating Us, the new joint has now been "stuck" in the cd player in my truck for 2 weeks straight.

**dookey67** · 12-31-2012, 07:41 AM

**Chugachjed** · 12-31-2012, 09:54 AM

Thanks dookey!

**dookey67** · 12-31-2012, 10:21 PM

I've never been much of a fan of Pitchfork (the site always felt like it was run by a bunch of pretentious high school bloggers with no journalistic experience), but I gotta say that I enjoyed this guy's review. It read like something I might have written back in the day when I was writing about music. My only "beef" with his review is that I would have scored the album a lot higher. It's a slow-burner that at first wasn't as immediate as their previous album, Eating Us, but after 2 weeks of constant spinning I think it might even be a stronger and more cohesive effort. I'd easily give Cobra Juicy somewhere between and 8.8 and a 9.3, maybe even a bit higher (then again I always hated rating albums, much preferring the review to speak for the greatness rather than the numerical offering and this guy's review sans the 7.6 speaks volumes of the album, imho):

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17134-cobra-juicy/