Black Moth Super Rainbow

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Listening to Black Moth Super Rainbow is like plummeting into a Salvador Dali painting. You may not know why that clock is melting, but you accept it, and soon enough you are riding around on flying tigers and having a gay old time. Black Moth Super Rainbow fertilize their alien terrain with swirling layers of synth and the most up-to-date electronic sound makers, creating an elegant if artificial landscape. Yet the group manage to drench their glitches in a friendly jacket of warmth well-known to our sunny planet. The gooey lyrics of the strangely monikered singer, Tobacco, sound like any snippet from a hippie campfire jam, only he masks them in the isolating oscillations of robotic vocoders. The result is an emotionally upbeat, chilled-out love fest, best to soothe the nerves before interstellar takeoff. With School of Seven Bells. 18+.
Fri., May 22, 9 p.m., 2009