Eating Us

Black Moth Super Rainbow | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 26, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Graveface
• ASIN: B0025X4P42
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,530 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #100 in Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo-Fi > Electronic Pop

Track Listings

1. Born on a Day the Sun Didn't Rise

2. Dark Bubbles

3. Twin of Myself

4. Gold Splatter

5. Iron Lemonade

6. Tooth Decay

7. Fields Are Breathing

8. Smile the Day After Today

9. The Sticky

10. Bubblegum Animals

11. American Face Dust

Editorial Reviews

Eating Us is Off-kilter, freak-out pop - lush orchestration and bubblegum melodies, with rhythmic drumming, thick bass tones, intense psychedelic drones and vocoder vocals. Eating Us is the band's 4th full-length album, after 2007's 'Dandelion Gum'. Album was produced by Dave Fridmann - Guitarist for Mercury Rev and producer for MGMT, Weezer, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tapes 'n Tapes. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Higher Fidelity at No Extra Charge!, June 8, 2009

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Jason (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eating Us (Audio CD)

Yet another morsel of psychedelic acid-tinged sweetness from Black Moth Super Rainbow. "Eating Us" takes everything that was great about "Dandelion Gum," the bubbly analogue synths (their adjective, not mine), the vocoder-heavy vocals, and puts it all through a higher-fidelity filter. While I'm more of a fan of the warmer, tape-saturated production on their previous effort, the music itself is still as strong as ever. The melodies are still deliciously lazy and the synths will wash you away into a hazy dream. Also, the clearer production gives allows the lyrics to be heard (slightly) more clearly, though, whether or not that is a merit is also debatable. Indie-tronic is too generic to do this group justice. Just listen to the clips here on the site and you'll know right away if you're ready to join BMSR on their pink cotton candy cloud.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Delicious, February 7, 2010

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Jon (Sunnyvale, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Eating Us (Audio CD)

This is such a cool band! If you get a chance watch on of their videos on You Tube. I'm not sure where these guys heads are at or what they are singing about, but definitely melodic and original tunes. I haven't heard anyting quite like it. This group has been in my top 5 for the last 3 years. And Eathing US is at least as good as their last release.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars dark bubblegum freakout for 2009, May 26, 2009

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A.P.M. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eating Us (Audio CD)

About Black Moth Super Rainbow:

After a year of eerie, stilted silence, the sun shines and the shadows reappear. Black Moth Super Rainbow has crept from the forests and cities to make Eating Us, their dark bubblegum freakout for 2009. The first fully hi-fi BMSR record, Eating Us adds space and dimension to the band's sticky, off-kilter melodies. This isn't an album about witches and woods, and this time around the band isn't letting on to what it all might mean. Because to them, it's just better that way.

The modern musical unit known as Black Moth Super Rainbow first emerged from an obscure Pennsylvania forest glen in 2003 to relay a somewhat confounding sound with Falling Through a Field. Over the next few years, that peculiar sound developed, and the cult of BMSR began. With the release of their naturally-sweetened, candy-coated, and acclaimed 2007 treat, Dandelion Gum, a number of curious listeners bent their ears and adjusted their listening habits to incorporate Black Moth Super Rainbow's oddly creepy and off-beat sweet audio plyings. A string of tours supporting big brothers Flaming Lips and Aesop Rock positioned the oft-camera shy outfit in front of thousands of brand new sonically adventurous music enthusiasts who weren't necessarily prepared for the eccentric visuals of BMSR's surreal live show, but would hopefully emerge changed, and be better off for it.

Their new full length presentation for 2009, Eating Us, promises to up the ante on the fidelity and melodies that BMSR have become known for. Here, the merry cryptic band has added some new flavors to their already well-established rainbow of sounds, with even more dense layers of lushly complex orchestration, intensely rhythmic drumming from a live, human drummer, vocoder vocals that are anything but robotic, and thick, undulating bass tones.

Eating Us marks the first time BMSR has ventured into a modern recording studio, being partially tracked and fully produced by Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, MGMT, Weezer) at Tarbox Studios, who was the only choice of producer for notedly anti-studio BMSR quasi-frontman Tobacco. Only Fridmann's hands and ears were trusted to keep the freaked out wiggles and hairy candies fully in-tact, while also expanding them in a more realistic space. This music agreeably dwells in contradiction; the songs contained herein have a feel both earnestly nostalgic, and hauntingly futuristic. Should the robots working in our factories, vacuuming our floors, and operating our gaming consoles choose to rise up and revolt, Eating Us could, perhaps, be used to serve as the first indication that our beloved machines had begun to understand the subtle complexities of human emotion.

These beat heavy, hook-laden, eerily comforting sonic capsules are as complex as a circuit board and as contagious as the common cold. For all those whose ears opt take part in listening, be forewarned that each and every track of Eating Us is equally apt to infest the more delicate portions of your cerebral cortex and nest into any readily available nook, cranny, or unprotected cavity of your susceptible brain with a very minimal chance of being easily ousted. Now a six piece, BMSR could come or go at any time, however 2009 promises a return to touring.

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