Tom Fec is a Pittsburg analogue freak with a mission to lightly scramble your summer brain. Who says the weed doesn’t dull your creativity? Well, this album hints that it might be possible. 13 looping tuneful beats and vocoder meanderings provide a continuous soundtrack to doing bugger all with a big stupid grin and the exotic smell of City Studentland in your nostrils.
As well as gathering old Korg and Moog machinery around them, Black Moth Super Rainbow are also adept at collecting enthusiastic press and ezine reviews. Boards of Canada get mentioned a lot. So too does a nostalgia for US Public Service Broadcast TV show themes. I wouldn’t know about the latter, but early Open University TV broadcasts in th UK could get a bit spacey if I remember right. As for Boards of Canada – my hearing says "no contest". Those Scots persons work hard for their delicious sounds – these here Yankees like an easier life and there's a distinct sense of OK, lets cut another one a bit like the last one. Someone said "Neutral Milk Hotel". I said WHAAAAT!?? Crazy Americans. They'll be telling our Prime Minister what to do before long.
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The groove is generally important – encouraging, at most, a slow walk to the fridge. The favoured tonal device is a pitch-bend moment whenever things get a little stable. Like that passing moment of car sickness on the long holiday journey with your parents in the old days.
Each tune has a title. But it’s really all one piece – a set of exercises and variations on the broad theme of individual disengagement from reality and denying the pain of global evil.
Pretty good stuff then. If you can be arsed, I think you could probably grow your own.
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