TAG: Black Moth Super Rainbow

Mar12

The Seven Fields of Aphelion – Periphery (Review)

The Seven Fields of Aphelion

Periphery

Released by Graveface


The members of Black Moth Super Rainbow never seem to be at a loss when it comes to choosing captivating titles. Branching out as The Seven Fields of Aphelion, BMSR's Maux Boyle has just released her first solo album, which echoes the full band's love of melody, but eschews their penchant for dizzy timbres and sun-dappled psychedelia. Instead, Seven Fields seems to reflect a softer, more feminine sensibility, invoking muted hues that are better suited for grey skies and solitary moments. There are no beats to be found on Periphery, such that these ambient soundscapes all suggest a still, pensive sort of atmosphere, populated by lost chimes and forgotten memories. The album's most tangible focus comes from the keys of a treated piano, whose wandering melodies act as the only truly conscious element looming through the album's hazy backdrop--a place where spectral pads fade into the fog and wispy synth lines curl around tall, barren trees somewhere in the distance.

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Sep04

ATP Set Times

Here’s the rundown on next weekend’s bash in Catskills, NY. PS: Bars open til 4 am. Sweetness.

FRIDAY
Stage 1:

3.15pm-4.15pm : The Drones performing Wait Long By The River…
4.45pm-5.30pm : The Feelies performing Crazy Rhythms
6.00pm-7.00pm : Dirty Three performing Ocean Songs
7.30pm-8.30pm : Suicide performing Suicide (First LP)
9.00pm-9.45pm : Panda Bear
10.15pm-11.15pm : Iron & Wine
11.45pm-1.00am : The Jesus Lizard

Stage 2:
9.00pm-9.30pm : Jon Glaser & Jon Benjamin
9.45pm-10.15pm : Derrick Brown & The Navy Gravy
10.30pm-11.00pm : Eugene Mirman
11.15pm-11.45pm : David Cross

SATURDAY
Stage 1:
1.30pm-2.30pm : Sufjan Stevens
3.00pm-3.45pm : Grouper
4.15pm-5.00pm : Black Dice
5.30pm-6.15pm : Antipop Consortium
6.45pm-7.30pm : El-P
8.00pm-8.45pm : Autolux
9.15pm-10.15pm : Shellac
10.45pm-11.45pm : Deerhunter
12.15am-1.30am : Animal Collective

Stage 2:

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Jul20

Black Moth Super Rainbow ‘Born on a Day the Sun Didn’t Rise’ (NSFW) (Video)

There’s nothing like starting the week off with a freaky slasher video. You know something is up when the girls are skipping through the cemetary and one pulls a dagger out of her pocket; it’s all blood from there, as the girls chop up a dude, drink his blood, and put his head on display. Still, it’s restrained for frontman Tobacco, whose solo work is more disturbing.

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May21

Live Review BMSR + SVIIB

Yup, that’s right, a pair of hard to classify bands with to classify sounds and long names with unusual abbreviations swung through Chicago’s Bottom Lounge last night. Billed as a co-headlining tour, Black Moth Super Rainbow closed the night with their lo-fi psych grooves after School of Seven Bells finished filling the room with their own kaleidoscopic melodies.

Spreading out across the front of the stage with Alejandra and Claudia Deheza flanking Benjamin Curtis, SVIIB set the night in motion with computerized drums and walls of guitar and synth noise. The New York trio drew their setlist from their stellar debut Alpinisms and the twin sisters’ hypnotic vocals were as captivating as they were on the disc.

The ladies’ soaring voices took the lead, but Curtis was not to …

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May19

Black Moth Super Rainbow – Eating Us (Review)

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Eating Us



The psychedelic, ethereal, and downtempo creations of the aptly named Pittsburgh group Black Moth Super Rainbow are back in their follow up effort to their 2007 Dandelion Gum. It has become a running theme of BMSR to make music of a very soft-spoken styling, primarily drawing attention to the construction of rhythm, and the cohesive matching of sonic artifacts through static lo-fi sounds, looped samples, and simple melodic structure. In their new album, Eating Us, BMSR have taken a turn in their work, bringing more attention to ...

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