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SUMMARY:HI-FI First Fridays: Bad Bad Hats
DESCRIPTION:About Bad Bad Hats \nBad Bad Hats is an indie rock band from Minneapolis\, Minnesota. The band consists of Kerry Alexander\, Chris Hoge\, and Connor Davison. Named for a trouble-making character from the Madeline children’s books\, BadBad Hats is defined by a balance of sweet and sour. Their music honors classic pop songwriting\, with nods to nineties rock simplicity and pop-punk frivolity. Through it all\, Alexander’s unflinchingly sincere lyrics cut to the emotional heart of things. \nAlexander and Hoge met while attending Macalester College in Saint Paul\, Minnesota. In 2012\, they formed Bad Bad Hats with friend and bassist Noah Boswell\, and began performing around the Twin Cities. That same year\, they were signed by Minneapolis label Afternoon Records. Their 2015 debut album Psychic Reader caught the attention of outlets including The New Yorker\, NPR\, Pitchfork\, and Paste. Since the release of Psychic Reader\, Bad Bad Hats has toured the U.S. extensively\, supporting artists including Margaret Glaspy\, Hippo Campus\, and Third Eye Blind. \nLightning Round\, the band’s second full-length album\, finds Bad Bad Hats more confident and mature than ever. Producer and collaborator Brett Bullion (who also produced Psychic Reader) encouraged the group to record live in the studio\, an approach which pushed the band outside of their comfort zone and lends many songs on the record a loose\, organic feel. There is a vulnerability in this (fluttering tape loops\, a few wrong notes) and it makes the music on the new album feel as honest and unpredictable as Alexander’s lyrics. In this spontaneous environment\, Hoge\, who is known to play every instrument in the band\, delivers some of his most inspired musical performances yet. \nAs for Alexander\, she’s still writing love songs\, ones that recount with cinematic swell the subtle joy and pain of the everyday. Her vocals are supported by open\, breathing arrangements that feature lush keyboard sounds and woody guitar tones. Davison was recruited to play drums on the album and became a full-time member in the process. His drumming and melodic contributions give the new songs a level of nuance not heard in previous releases. \nLightning Round marks the final release with contributions from original member Noah Boswell\, who will be leaving the group this fall to pursue a master’s degree. Bad Bad Hats continues with Alexander\, Hoge\, and Davison. They have plans to tour the country this year.
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SUMMARY:HI-FI First Fridays: Black Moth Super Rainbow
DESCRIPTION:About Black Moth Super Rainbow \nIf you haven’t panicked lately\, you’re either blissfully ignorant or have gone completely clear. For the rest of us attempting to navigate the political\, economical\, and cultural carnage\, Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” succinctly captures the statue of psychic dislocation. Or N.W.A.’s “The Panic Zone.” Or Black Moth Super Rainbow’s Panic Blooms\, the latest disorienting dystopian masterpiece from the experimental pop arsonists that haunt the black-leaved Pennsylvania woods. \nFor the last decade\, BMSR and frontman TOBACCO have explored the periphery of evil and extreme color\, alternating between absurdly bright beauty and the slashed throat sinister. A sound impossible to replicate\, as though it burst fully formed from a paisley-painted fire hydrant stationed in hell. They combine the aesthetically gorgeous with the hideously ugly to create a psychedelic uneasiness usually only seen in old oil paintings. What if Goya or Bosch made ravaged vocoder pop? Or a neo-impressionist painter committed himself to creating slow woozy earworms so iridian and vivid you’d think he sliced off an ear in the process. \nWe know scarcely anything personal about 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. In that vein\, he’s closer to a Boards of Canada\, DOOM\, or Aphex Twin—periodically visible but opaque—emotional but unwilling to exploit the self-mythology and cult that cropped up around him. \nSo maybe this is why Panic Blooms is slightly startling. Never before has TOBACCO been so raw or direct in his lyrics. It’s a fucked up and bleeding account of depression and the shadow side of human frailty\, full of gorgeous warped melodies that exist as their own genre\, somewhere between late 90s Warp Records\, dub\, and chopped and screwed codeine drip. It’s not drug music\, it’s dragged music\, oozing through the muck of the present moment\, past mutating the present\, demon melodies filtered through the vain search for light. \nThis is why Pitchfork claimed BMSR mastered the balance between the grotesque and beautiful. Spin hailed their “consistently great records of mind-altering\, sugar-coated\, vocoder-heavy psychedelic pop.” Stereogum saluted their “excellent haze.” \nEncoded in a syrupy fog\, TOBACCO’s lines stab with more ferocity than ever before. From the first track\, the knives are out and slashing with chimerical violent imagery: mouths bleeding from razor blades stashed in tangerines and the ominous sensation of feeling haunted. There are sunset curses and diseased plants\, sunburn fevers and doomsday downgrades\, pink apocalyptic suns and sinister omens. It’s reminiscent of the phrase used to describe surrealism: as beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. \nHere we are in 2018\, inhabiting a tumorous wasteland with singed nerves and synapses fried from scrolling for far too long. This is what the fear sounds like in its most pristine form. The floral bloom and the toxic wilt\, the sound of dreams and nightmares reaching détente\, a ride through the void\, where the fumes offer all the anesthetic you need.
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