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Black Moth Super Rainbow
On Tour42,653 listeners (1,090,210 plays)
psychedelic, experimental, electronic, indie, post-rock
Black Moth Super Rainbow come from the woods of western Pennsylvania. An actual, five-member band without the expected laptops and sequencers, BMSR is a psych-pop group in early-’70s electronic clothing. Sometimes the songs feel like pagan rituals in a sugarcoated fairyland, while at other times they’re like sad thoughts on the happiest days. All are lovingly played by real people with real hands.
Members prefer to go by aliases and stay away from normal press photos, in an attempt to keep the focus on their music. Led by Tobacco (Vox), who does most of the writing and production, the band also consists of Power Pill Fist (bass and atari), Father Hummingbird (rhodes and monosynth), The Seven Fields Of Aphelion (monosynth) and Iffernaut (drums). By developing their ideas in near-seclusion and without any local influence in Pittsburgh, they come across as feral and unique. Imagine being able to wipe the slate clean and hearing a pop song without ever hearing a pop song before and replacing the types of melodies you’re accustomed to hearing with something different. It’s kind of like that.
Most people associate sounds like a vocoded vocal with techno and novelty and analog synths with electro, but BMSR is coming from a different place and are trying to recontextualize these sounds. They’re categorized in the electronic genre, but their heads are somewhere else.
Members prefer to go by aliases and stay away from normal press photos, in an attempt to keep the focus on their music. Led by Tobacco (Vox), who does most of the writing and production, the band also consists of Power Pill Fist (bass and atari), Father Hummingbird (rhodes and monosynth), The Seven Fields Of Aphelion (monosynth) and Iffernaut (drums). By developing their ideas in near-seclusion and without any local influence in Pittsburgh, they come across as feral and unique. Imagine being able to wipe the slate clean and hearing a pop song without ever hearing a pop song before and replacing the types of melodies you’re accustomed to hearing with something different. It’s kind of like that.
Most people associate sounds like a vocoded vocal with techno and novelty and analog synths with electro, but BMSR is coming from a different place and are trying to recontextualize these sounds. They’re categorized in the electronic genre, but their heads are somewhere else.
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Black Moth Super Rainbow - Drippy Eye
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Black Moth Super Rainbow "Sun Lips" Live
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Black Moth Super Rainbow - Sun Lips
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Melt Me
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They Live in the Meadow
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The Afternoon Turns Pink
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When The Sun Grows On Your Tongue
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Caterpillar House
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Lost, Picking Flowers in the Woods
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Wall Of Gum
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Vietcaterpillar
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untitled roadside demo
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Shoutbox
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Remure wrote:
256 Colors is far too low on the charts.
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optimistic_tour wrote:
what an asshole statement, infant-tango. you honestly want good bands to remain unknown? that's why they quit and we get no more music. suprising, coming from a fellow Residents fan.. unless you're being arch-sarcastic, in which case, FOOLED! oh nos
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headtotoes wrote:
you make life worth living, in part!
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infant-tango wrote:
1mil plays...ugh pitchfork and hipsters
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femmefatale257 wrote:
simply amazing
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Aludin wrote:
lol over a million plays man bmsr are so mainstream
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analogonz wrote:
bmsr brmc botos bbml bxc b'p'b bd bcm
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optimistic_tour wrote:
I smell a hint of insecurity & dirty diapers coming from rigoisphat
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rpfile wrote:
yikes that is almost worse than stepping into oscar wilde's bunghole.
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Waqcku wrote:
I'm poor dude. and big shows here are at the Paramount which is the lamest venue in the world it's like stepping into some 17th century dandy's asshole.
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rigoisphat wrote:
i smell a hint of...must be indy-rock bad smell
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gonchoriffic wrote:
do me on it
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rpfile wrote:
well dont worry waqcku, you'll get your wish because it sounds like they wont be doing any touring soon, either with bands you don't want to see or bands you want to see. which sucks. i'll take what i can get. i just left the aesop show before aesop came on and everything was fine.
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seanipooh wrote:
so now we are 3.......BMSR.....my hooka and me..........lovely :)
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optimistic_tour wrote:
happy melted city is my myspace song, good lawd
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Waqcku wrote:
I'm sick of them touring with bands I don't want to see and playing big venues with high ticket prices. don't tour with Ween. Fuck ween. They don't even sound alike, at least it made a little sense with The Lips
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BackwardsBoy wrote:
so hot right now
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rpfile wrote:
happy melted city here: http://www.youaintnopicasso.com/2008/07/03/black-moth-super-rainbow-happy-melted-city/
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wales9 wrote:
Two "new" songs are up on their Myspace page (I can't stop listening to Happy Melted City), along with news of a new rarities album coming in September.
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dirtiboots wrote:
tour. with. ween. would the cosmos explode?
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Events
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MGMT
McCarren Pool, New York, United States
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Recent Activity
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