Black Moth Super Rainbow makes some of the most tripped-out experimental music you'll hear around these days, psychedelic electro-rock that belongs in a sci-fi space odyssey done in the 1970's. And it's not like that hard to sit through, hard to appreciate experi stuff — Black Moth's music is vibrant, a rainbow of flavors that practically jumps out of the speakers to get your notice. I saw them open for Aesop Rock in '07 and was impressed at how well their music translated live. (The visuals helped.)
The band has recently announced the May 26 Graveface Records release of their fourth full-length, Eating Us (cover pictured at left). A medly from the album is currently streaming on the band's MySpace page. It's pretty good and I'm intrigued.
Here's the release and track listing:
This article appears in Jan 28 – Feb 3, 2009.