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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : Black Moth Super Rainbow
t i t l e : Start A People
d a t e : 2004
l a b e l : 70's Gymnastic Recording Co. / Graveface Records
g e n r e : Electronic
r l s. d a t e : May/2004
t r a c k s : 16
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 62,2 MB
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Imagine that an Air cover band and a Daft Punk cover band were
both flying to Mars, but the members got mixed up between
spaceships, so when they arrived they had a couple members of
each band, plus James Brown's funky drummer (where'd he come
from?). They stood and stared at each other in puzzlement, but
then they decided to get down to it and improvise. Somebody
caught it all on tape, and mailed it to back to Earth so
somebody else could release it as the new album from Black Moth
Super Rainbow... Ok, that description's a bit convoluted and
ridiculous. It also talks around the serious 1970s vibe that
BMSR is on, courtesy of the seriously 70s synthesizers at the
music's center. And it ignores how futuristic this album
sounds, what with a robot who takes over the microphone every
few songs to sing about sunshine in a way that makes you think
that either the song's about dreaming a year away on a sunny
afternoon or it's about nuclear annihilation. And then there's
the phonograph fuzz, the crickets and birds that seem to be
flying around under the surface, and the way the band casually
slips into a low-key funk groove. It's hard to find comparisons
(or words, even) that really get how wonderful the gorgeous yet
slightly eerie mood of Start a People is. The wizards in Black
Moth Super Rainbow are on some mysterious kaleidoscopic plane
of existence, and for 16 or so songs they take you there...and
it's a crazy, lovely place to be. --erasingclouds.com
MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! As you all know, we tripped over our
own tongues last year when we heard the debut album from BMSR,
which subsequently sold out of print faster than you could
blink. Well my friends, here comes the new album, Start a
People, which picks up exactly where you would want and hope.
Layers of beats, loops, vocoder vocals, orchestral sounds,
sweeping cinematic soundscapes, and an overall generally-fucked
warpedness quality a la MBV's Loveless masterpiece. You'll see
some familiar old friends here with changed faces - a handful
of tracks from Falling Through a Field show up here, reworked
and re-recorded. Overall more upbeat yet just as intoxicating
as their debut, Start a People just rocketed to the top of our
Best of List for 2004... and the disc hasn't even finished
playing yet. --tonevendor.com
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01-Raspberry Dawn [03:00]
02-Vietcaterpillar [02:15]
03-From The See [00:59]
04-I Am The Alphabet [00:58]
05-Seeeds [02:43]
06-I Think It Is Beautiful That You Are 256 Colors Too [03:06]
07-Count Backwards To Black [03:12]
08-Early 70's Gymnastics [03:41]
09-Snail Garden [01:51]
10-Folks With Magik Toes [00:27]
11-Trees And Colors And Wizards [02:28]
12-I Am The Alphabet [02:33]
13-1 2 3 Of Me [03:20]
14-Hazy Field People [02:52]
15-Smile Heavy [02:37]
16-Bonus Track [03:20]
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39:22 min
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