Black Moth Super Rainbow

I’ve heard this name float­ing around for a while now, and despite the name’s sheer and over­whelm­ing awe­some­ness, I had failed to take notice. But I’m doing my best to quickly make up for that.

From what I’ve been read­ing, these guys are fre­quently get­ting pegged as “rip­ping off” Boards of Canada. It’s a com­par­i­son that would occur to any­body, but “rip­ping off” is a harsh and plain inac­cu­rate way to put it. Still, they are heav­ily informed by BoC’s hyp­notic, break-driven ambiance. And if you amplify these ele­ments with the bom­bast of M83, and hints of Aavikko and Appa­rat Organ Quar­tet, you’ve got a pretty close approx­i­ma­tion of BMSR’s sound.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion is scarce (not even sure where these guys are from), and they seem to remain inten­tion­ally elu­sive to pho­tog­ra­phers, so please excuse the brevity of this post.

“Drippy Eye,” “Side 8,” and “Lost” all come from their (rather lengthy) EP of this year on Grave­face Records, Lost, Pick­ing Flow­ers In The Woods.