BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW - DANDELION GUM (LIMITED EDITION PICTURE LP)

Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum on Limited Edition Picture Disc LP

Black Moth Super Rainbow is a psyche-pop group from Western Pennsylvania. Sometimes their songs feel like pagan rituals in a sugarcoated fairyland. Other times they're like sad thoughts on the happiest days. BMSR lives and makes music in their own lollipop neon folktale world. Most people associate sounds like a vocoder vocal with techno and novelty, and analog synths with electro, but BMSR is coming from a different place and trying to re-contextualize these sounds.

Members prefer to go by aliases and stay away from normal press photos so the music is always the main focus. Led by Tobacco (Vox), who does most of the writing and production, the band also consists of Ryan Graveface (bass and guitar), The Seven Fields of Aphelion (monosynth) and Iffernaut (drums). Not really coming from any kind of scene, Black Moth Super Rainbow is somewhat of an anomaly in their hometown of Pittsburgh; a place where most people don't even realize BMSR is from. By developing their ideas in near-seclusion and without any local influence, they come across as something feral and without solid comparison.

Dandelion Gum is a loosely based concept record about witches who make candy in the forest. Each of its songs represent a different candy-induced freakout in the gooiest and sweetest ways possible. Songs that are built to stick in your head for hours meet textures that are impossible to scrape off your teeth. You might not even realize that the sunny melody you're humming to yourself all day has so many hidden layers behind it. It's as accessible of a record as it is abstract, and as bright on the surface as it is moody underneath. Dandelion Gum feels as colorful and sticky as its name suggests.

But there’s more to this deluxe reissue than the original Dandelion Gum tracks. Graveface Records has added 14 songs that were all recorded during the same time period. Six of these fourteen tracks have never been heard before! Some are from the out of print Drippers EP and a few are BMSR’s contributions to the 2006 split with The Octopus Project (The House of Apples and Eyeballs).

Black Moth Super Rainbow Dandelion Gum Track Listing:

1.  Forever Heavy
2.  Jump Into My Mouth And Breathe The Stardust
3.  Melt Me
4.  Lollpopsichord
5.  They Live In The Meadow
6.  Sun Lips
7.  Rollerdisco
8.  Neon Syrup Fro The Cemetery Sisters
9.  The Afternoon Turns Pink
10. When The Sun Grows On Your Tongue
11. Spinning Cotton Candy In A Shack Made Of Shingles
12. Drippy Eye
13. Lost, Picking Flowers In The Woods
14. Caterpillar House
15. Wall Of Gum
16. Untitled Roadside Demo
17. Untitled