{"id":44267,"date":"2016-04-08T13:21:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T18:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=44267"},"modified":"2016-04-08T14:40:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T19:40:48","slug":"black-moth-super-rainbow-seefu-lilac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/04\/08\/black-moth-super-rainbow-seefu-lilac\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Moth Super Rainbow: SeeFu Lilac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SeeFu-Lilac-e1460139433860.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44336\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-44336 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SeeFu-Lilac-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"SeeFu Lilac\" width=\"285\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a>Formed in Pittsburgh in the late &#8217;90s, Black Moth Super Rainbow is the experimental rock project featuring Thomas Fec, who also performs alone under the TOBACCO moniker. With the last BMSR project\u00a0having come in 2012,\u00a0<em>SeeFu Lilac\u00a0<\/em>is the latest since\u00a0<em>Cobra Juicy\u00a0<\/em>and is the band&#8217;s seventh EP. <em>SeeFu Lilac <\/em>is available through <a href=\"http:\/\/radcult.bandcamp.com\/\">Rad Cult<\/a>, though Fec has also worked with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graveface.com\/\">Graveface Records<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostly.com\/\">Ghostly International<\/a>. After a Lawrence visit to The Bottleneck in the fall of 2014 in support TOBACCO&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Ultima II Massage,\u00a0<\/em>Fec took time to realign with the Black Moth stream of creativity; a project starkly different from his solo work.<\/p>\n<p>The spacious and space-ish\u00a0<em>SeeFu Lilac\u00a0<\/em>appears at first as an LP but of its nine tracks, only &#8220;Warm Water Leviathan&#8221; exceeds two and a half minutes. The ever-equipped BMSR hold dearly a tool belt of muddy synths, guitar, production, and vocoder-laden vocals with the dazed yet patient approach on title track introducing the EP. &#8220;The Chew&#8221; soon hits with the spinning, sandpaper psychedelics indicative in any of Fec&#8217;s music, but &#8220;Umbros Vorhees&#8221; is the only markedly TOBACCO track on the EP. So much of Fec&#8217;s proverbial watermark-emblazoned sound on <em>SeeFu Lilac <\/em>and\u00a0anything Black Moth is in fact an addictive, underwater sound.<\/p>\n<p>The EP blissfully bleeds together without notice and is arguably its best from the second track, &#8220;The Chew,&#8221; through the fifth track, &#8220;Brotherhood of Sisters&#8221; before one is woken up again by the submersed synths and vocals of &#8220;Umbros Vorhees.&#8221; The true, vast beauty of\u00a0<em>SeeFu Lilac\u00a0<\/em>lies in its chameleon-like ability to become the most bleak and removed or the most uplifting and self-actualized depending on the day; qualities found in the best art. Black Moth then unveils the final track, an assuredly analog and resplendent &#8220;Warm Water Leviathan.&#8221; Fec and Black Moth Super Rainbow are congruent with the band&#8217;s warmly warped discography on\u00a0<em>SeeFu Lilac.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended If You Like: TOBACCO, Lord RAJA, Choir of Young Believers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Tracks: 9 (Warm Water Leviathan), 4 (Since You&#8217;ve Seen Her), 6 (Umbros Vorhees), 2 (The Chew), 3 (Unfinished Sketch 6)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Not Play: None<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by Harrison Hipp on 04\/08\/16<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ever-equipped BMSR hold dearly a tool belt of muddy synths, guitar, production, and vocoder-laden vocals on this dazed yet patient approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1602,"featured_media":44336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,4,3235,3230],"tags":[1358,4829,4193,4828,2639,4827,4826,4825],"class_list":["post-44267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hopelectronic-rotation","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","tag-black-moth-super-rainbow","tag-bmsr","tag-ghostly-international","tag-graveface-records","tag-harrison-hipp","tag-rad-cult","tag-thomas-fec","tag-tobacco"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SeeFu-Lilac-e1460139433860.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}