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Black Moth Super Rainbow
Eating Us
Graveface
Rating: 3.5 out of 5

For Black Moth Super Rainbow and their fourth album, the song does not remain the same.

Enlisting Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev producer Dave Fridmann, he was able to pluck out the band’s ‘70s psychedelic moments and put them into a more glossed-over studio production, while adding extra distortion to blend the smoothness with the band’s identity of fuzzed-out psychedelic space sounds.

So does this arena rock style approach help a band who has spent most of their career in the garage and living rooms of their homes? What Eating Us shows is that even though Black Moth Super Rainbow sound best rough and tumbled with a sound that is more haunting in nature, they can logically progress into their futurist environment without sounding tired or bleached out by a big studio production.

One thing that does remain the same is consistency for this band. “Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise” begins the album with about as much punch as you can possibly get, throwing you into this album with all the gusto this band can produce. Once you hear it, you will not forget.

But as the album progresses, bombastic beats transform into a blooming of sound. “Tooth Decay” shoots you up into the sky with otherworldly theramin-like sounds and a Trip-Hop beat structure. As “The Fields Are Breathing” differs with a very French-infused pop song that is Jacques Dutronc in outer space.

And by “American Face Dust,” you are left standing with the same expectations about this band as you went into this album. Like a breeze that blows you around, not knowing if you are going to be shot straight up in the air or twirled around with their cosmic synth sounds, this album combines the playful with the powerful even in their brightest hour thanks to studio subtlety.

Black Moth Super Rainbow