‘You can wake up to it and feel good. You can bob your head to it and feel cool. You can kiss your honey under the sky dark blue to it and feel soothed.’
Black Moth Super Rainbow hail from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Having evolved from their previous incarnation satanstompingcaterpillars, they have been described as ‘the best kept indie secret in the US’, their use of dusty saturated analogue sounds drawing myriad comparisons to artists as diverse as Boards of Canada, the Children’s Television Workshop, Bruce Haack, Will Oldham and Air.
An electronic junk band who grew up watching “321 Contact” and “The Letter People Show”, Black Moth Super Rainbow is made up of 3 to 6 members at any given time, with their primary focus on turning their childhood memories into songs. They range in age from 20 to 25, and have shot many rainbows from their hands in the process of recording their previous two US-only indie albums.
Now firmly part of the crew on the good ship Lumenessence, they are poised to introduce their infectious brand of retro-futurism to the rest of the world and to expand on their current cult status in the USA.
Making songs from more of a folk perspective, the BMSR kids feel much more at home playing music in the woods or an old barn than an electro club. With US reviewers all bemoaning the short-sighted A&R policies of the UK’s premier electronica labels, it falls to Lumenessence to introduce BMSR to the wider audience they deserve. For those of you who have already had the pleasure we welcome you back, for those new to BMSR, we urge you to let them paint your grey world in hues of yellow, red, orange, green, blue, purple and pink and someday maybe you can be 256 colors too….