Graveface
2009
Eating Us
About This Album
It must have become clear at some point in the beginning stages of planning their fourth album that something had to change for Black Moth Super Rainbow, that perhaps they had taken their sound as far as they could and needed an upgrade. It sounds like they got tired of making music in a dingy basement filled with melted candles and old pizza boxes and figured it was time to move to the big leagues. To that end, on Eating Us they've paired with Flaming Lips/Mercury Rev producer Dave Fridmann and made a record that is far slicker and pro sounding than anything they've done before. Whether you, as a fan of their previous work, want to follow along might depend on how you feel about the opening track, "Born on a Day the Sun Didn't Rise," sounding like it's a Robert Plant vocal shy of being a track from Led Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door. The drums are thunderous, the synths are clear and soaring, and the song is crisply hooky; in fact, if it weren't for Tobacco's vocodered vocals you might not even peg it as a BMSR song right away. As the album goes along, though, the band's unique vision asserts itself despite the application of a fair amount of studio gloss.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,5,6,8,9 and 10)

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