Hailing from the creepiest of states, this 5 piece junk band grew up watching ?321 Contact? and ?The Letter People Show? and has found a way into my listening routine on a daily basis for several years. They say their primary focus is turning their childhood memories into songs and feel much more at home playing music in the woods or an old barn than an electro club. -- Graveface Records
Black Moth Super Rainbow came from the woods of western Pennsylvania. An actual, five-member band without the expected laptops and sequencers, BMSR is a psych-electro group in early-'70s electronic clothing. All are lovingly played by real people with real hands.
Members prefer to go by aliases and stay away from normal press photos, in an attempt to keep the focus on their music. Led by Tobacco (Vocals, vocoder, analog synth), who does most of the writing and production, the band also consists of Father Hummingbird (rhodes and analog synth), The Seven Fields Of Aphelion (analog synth), Ryan Graveface (bass and guitar) and Iffernaut (drums). By developing their ideas in near-seclusion and without any local influence in Pittsburgh, they come across as feral and unique. Imagine being able to wipe the slate clean and hear a pop song without ever having heard a pop song before--replacing the types of melodies you're accustomed to hearing with something completely different. It's kind of like that.
From Wikipedia:Black Moth Super Rainbow is an American experimental band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their music contains elements of psychedelia, folk, electronica, and pop. Their distinctive sound is characterized by analog electronic instruments including the vocoder, Rhodes piano, and Novatron.
A Graveface insert included inside the album Dandelion Gum describes them as such: "Deep in the woods of western Pennsylvania vocoders hum amongst the flowers and synths bubble under the leaf-strewn ground while flutes whistle in the wind and beats bounce to the soft drizzle of a warm acid rain. As the sun peeks out from between the clouds, the organic aural concoction of Black Moth Super Rainbow starts to glisten above the trees."