Black Moth Super Rainbow – Dandelion Gum
If someone held out a Black Moth Super Rainbow album in one hand and a mixed bag of psychoactive drugs in the other and told me to choose, I’d instantly pick the album, even though both choices can perhaps convey similar states. The music choice is more addictive and ultimately healthier. This band is my latest musical obsession that I can’t get enough of. So here’s my take on them and their last album proper; Dandelion Gum.
Black Moth Super Rainbow… initially this band name sounds like a working title for a drawing that I made while in Kindergarten. Though not at all to undermine their musical direction whatsoever with that statement. I mean it as a revelatory explanation of BMSR’s playful exuberance and experimental electronic joy.
It’s a hardship to fully classify and acknowledge this band and album in simple terms for music commoners, (that’s what makes music so great and special, ya?) so try this on for size;
You know those wacky dreams you have? (not those negative, partially scary ones) I mean those fun and quirky, “I wonder what that could mean?” dreams that usually occur just before you wake up, like where you’re donning a Viking costume and waltzing with a giant baboon in a purple coloured meadow, OK that’s probably just exclusive to me… but anyway, BMSR is probably the only band that could provide the soundtrack to dreams of such odd and enigmatic subconscious tales of quirkiness.
Black Moth Super Rainbow is definitely an exciting and unique eccentricity, case in point, here’s the aliases of the 5 band members; Tobacco, The Seven Fields of Aphelion, Power Pill Fist, Iffernaut, and Father Hummingbird. The album song titles are also in the same league of enjoyable weirdness; Jump Into My Mouth and Breathe the Stardust, Lollipopsichord, Neon Syrup for the Cemetery Sisters, Spinning Cotton Candy in a Shack Made of Shingles… to name just a few.
Their songs are a lovely, method to their madness cacophony, playing with pulsating instrumentals and meandering loops of electronica. While most songs have a medium to fast pace, a few have a slowed down style to them which gives a meditative characteristic to their sound. Other songs also get quite vocoder-happy with their lyrics found occasionally during the album. The lyrics are quite strange and off the wall, but after listening to them for awhile one can maybe make sense of them and relate them to some facet of life, though it’s not really required for this music. Black Moth Super Rainbow is a delight to lose yourself to in all it’s bizarre glory. (and I’m just dying to see them live one day)
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Melt Me
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Rollerdisco
(and a brilliant video for the song; Sun Lips)
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