THE FORMULA: AIR + GRATEFUL DEAD + THE CIA
“I’ve never paid much attention to the music scene here,” says Black Moth Super Rainbow’s frontman Tobacco about nightlife in his hometown of Pittsburgh. “It’s the opposite of a scene. People don’t want other bands to get out of the city. They just want them to stay stuck, unhappy, in Pittsburgh.” So when it came time for the psych-electronica group to record their latest disc, Dandelion Gum, the five pseudonymed members (Tobacco, bassist Power Pill Fist, keyboardist Seven Fields of Aphelion, drummer Iffernaut and keyboardist Father Hummingbird) made sure to beat a path out of the metropolis, heading north to a cabin in the Pennsylvania woods. They emerged with a concept album based on a local myth about two candy-wielding witches who lure kids to an uncertain doom. “It’s probably just a tale invented by Father Hummingbird’s grandparents,” says Tobacco, 27. “I don’t know if they created it to scare him, but we would talk about it when we were out there at night.” (more . . . )
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