The artist: Black Moth Super Rainbow

The album: Eating Us (Graveface)

The spin: With the current influx of synth-friendly indie bands, it’s a good time to be Black Moth Super Rainbow, a rural Pennsylvania-based psychedelic outfit with a distinctly darker and more twisted sound than many of their disco-leaning peers. For Eating Us, their fourth album and first hi-fi recording, they recruited psych producer extraordinaire Dave Fridmann, whose production credits include the Flaming Lips, MGMT and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, among many others. The result is a polished and spacey mix of electronic and organic sounds: vocoder vocals and eerie synth effects atop human-powered drums, tambourine, guitar and even banjo. Add to that disturbing lyrics such as “neon lemonade/eat my face away,” and a few upbeat moments (“Tooth Decay”), and you get a chill-out album for fans of mind-melting dystopian visions.

The grade: B+

– Peter Mongillo

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Born on a day the sun didnt rise – Black Moth Super Rainbow

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