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Black Moth Super Rainbow


That theme song from Silicon Valley? The incredible off-kilter synthpop played on a ribbon? That’s Tobacco – the enigmatic front-man who started life with Pittsburgh’s Black Moth Super Rainbow. Perhaps unfairly overlooked among some circles as another acid-laden, synth driven indie-psych band in the same era as Late Of The Pier and every mum’s favourite …

 There isn’t much known about BMSR frontman TOBACCO. There’s his government name, Tom Fec. A few photos if you want to Google, most of them in a mask. He’s done enough interviews where he patiently breaks down the creative process and the ideas espoused, but has mostly resisted the soul-snuffing admissions expected from contemporary musicians. …

After six years away, Black Moth Super Rainbow are back with a new album, Panic Blooms, out on May 4th, and a new single, Mr No One. They and their mysterious, oft mask-wearing frontman Tobacco have stuck their heads above the Pennsylvania woods they inhabit to record a new set of disorienting, day-glo experimental pop. …