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Eating Us
EMAILPRINTby Black Moth Super Rainbow
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 21 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 4 votes
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Album Info
Label: Graveface
Release Date: 26 May 2009
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Indie, Electronic
Summary
The fourth album for the Pittsburgh indie band was produced by Dave Fridmann.
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Alternative Press
Dave Fridmann's grand production touches enhance BMSR's otherworldly aura, adding dazzling glaze to this fruity cake. [Jun 2009, p.108]
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Eating Us, the fourth album from the Pennsylvania synthedelic band, is arguably its most accessible yet: It tones down the mind-blowing distortion and plays up the group’s melodic sense and danceable rhythms.
Read Full Review >Urb
Perhaps unintentional by the authors of the music, BMSR triumph in crafting a nuanced and aesthetically superb effort. Their music is wholesome and sounds delicious enough to eat, what a treat!
Read Full Review >Uncut
Eating Us is a litle too tidy, their frazzled wildness cultivated into ordered orchards, but on tracks like the typically titled 'Bubblegum Animals,' BMSR still conjure a ravishing, stoned cyber-soul pinic. [Jun 2009, p.83]
Dusted Magazine
Eating Us is still an unqualified success, the pop album that many followers in the footsteps of Kraftwerk have tried and failed to make.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
Eating Us has a more cohesive sound than its lo-fi predecessor, but still radioates weird and wonderful vibrations. [Jul 2009, p.117]
Prefix Magazine
Black Moth Super Rainbow’s improved fourth album, Eating Us, bears all the touches of a follow-up to a critically lauded work: larger sounds, a big name producer (Dave Fridmann) and a honed sense of purpose that forms the band’s best effort to date.
Read Full Review >The Phoenix
BMSR have, however, gone for extra credit and studied up on their Free Design and David Axelrod; they may even have taken more quaaludes.
Read Full Review >cokemachineglow
Eating Us works as a pop record and tends to be only as good as its songs, as opposed to the monochromatic statement of purpose that was "Dandelion Gum." Luckily, these are some pretty good songs.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express (NME)
Eating Us is their fourth full-length, and it’s a delight.
Read Full Review >All Music Guide
On Eating Us, Black Moth Super Rainbow prove that they can grow up a little without growing boring, and still deliver exactly the same amount of unhealthy sweetness as before.
Read Full Review >Spin
Woozy, smoked-out hooks are strewn like cigarette butts--a Black Moth specialty that Fridmann dials up throughout this consistently twisted half-hour and change.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
"Dandelion Gum" was speckled and silly and high as shit. Eating Us feels more like the baseline: collected, repeatable, respectable.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
The like-minded follow-up enlists Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann, who highlights the tingly interplay between acoustic and electronic instruments and the processed vocals, which generally sound like T-Pain tripping his balls off.
Read Full Review >Under The Radar
It's not quite background and not quite foreground. But probably more background, like a film soundtrack--that could be fixed with just a little more variety. [Spring 2009, p.64]
Tiny Mix Tapes
Enjoyably dumb and agreeably psychedelic, Eating Us is easy listening for an easy-going season.
Read Full Review >Mojo
The assured Eating Us proves that distractions aren't necessary. [Jul 2009, p.93]
Hot Press
Pittsburgh gene-splicers manage to overcome three minute attention deficit barrier.
Read Full Review >Drowned In Sound
Black Moth Super Rainbow is unable to even meld the far out periphery around a dreamy passive sound.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.2 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
