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- Date Released: January 1, 2007
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Psychedelic Rock
- Label: Graveface Records / IODA
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We Say...
Black Moth Super Rainbow’s third full-length is a concept album about witches that make candy in the woods. The soundtrack? Hazy, sun-dappled electronica that’s more than a little indebted to Boards of Canada, of course. What makes BMSR different, however, is that the group plays this music live in the studio — no sequencers allowed. What occurs is a ramshackle version of the library music that their contemporaries trade in — an even more off-kilter version of a genre already built on unease.
You’ll be able to hear it immediately in opener, “Forever Heavy,” whose serrated Doppler synth give the track a wobbly, uncomfortable sheen. Things clear up a bit on the poppy “Sun Lips,” but there’s still enough reverb on the vocoded vocals to make you as wary as Hansel and Gretel should have been. -
They Say...
Over the course of the last couple years and two albums (plus a stunning collaboration with the Octopus Project in 2006 on The House of Apples and Eyeballs), Black Moth Super Rainbow has constructed a unique and impressive sound that takes the best elements of bedroom techno, DayGlo indie pop, and anything-goes maximum pop and rolls them up into a glittering ball of melody and invention. Most all of their songs are built on a tipsy foundation of lo-fi drums, bass, and the occasional guitar, then plastered over by all manner of tinny junk-shop synths and topped by vocals fed through the cheapest sounding vocoder on earth. Dandelion Gum is the perfection of that sound; each song is a perfectly crafted chunk of organic synth pop insanity. Sometimes a group with such an interesting and individual sound skimps on the actual songs, but BMSR doesn't, as tracks like "Roller Disco," "The Afternoon Turns Pink," "Wall of Gum," and "Spinning Cotton Candy in a Shack Made of Shingles" have the kind of child-like melodies that will nag you gleefully for days. Even when the melodies don't grab you, something about the song will, whether it's the dub-like shifting of tones or the sheer joy the band transmits through the speakers. While for the most part the album lives up to the title and exudes sweet and sticky happiness, some melancholy creeps in on songs like the very Air-y "Sun Lips" or the slightly creepy "Lost, Picking Flowers in the Woods." Apparently the album is based on a concept of candy-making witches who inhabit a forest and lure hapless locals to their doom with their sweets, so it works to have a well-rounded, fully realized, and varied batch of songs to fit the concept. As awesome as it would be to have a full-length album of all toothache-inducing sweetness and light, it might get tired after a while. And your teeth might fall out too. How could you chew your Dandelion Gum then?
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| 01. |  |
Forever Heavy |
4:15 |
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| 02. | |
Jump Into My Mouth and Breathe the Stardust |
2:33 |
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| 03. | |
Melt Me |
2:22 |
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| 04. | |
Lollpopsichord |
1:32 |
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| 05. | |
They Live In the Meadow |
2:33 |
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| 06. | |
Sun Lips |
3:16 |
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| 07. | |
Rollerdisco |
2:34 |
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| 08. | |
Neon Syrup fro the Cemetery Sisters |
2:52 |
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| 09. | |
The Afternoon Turns Pink |
2:36 |
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| 10. | |
When the Sun Grows on Your Tongue |
2:40 |
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| 11. | |
Spinning Cotton Candy In a Shack Made of Shingles |
3:10 |
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| 12. | |
Drippy Eye |
3:13 |
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| 13. | |
Lost, Picking Flowers In the Woods |
3:21 |
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| 14. | |
Caterpillar House |
1:58 |
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| 15. | |
Wall of Gum |
0:59 |
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| 16. | |
Untitled Roadside Demo |
3:34 |
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| 17. | |
Untitled |
3:10 |
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17 Total Tracks, 46:38 Total Length
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