Artist:
Meatbodies
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Shoegaze
Total Time:
57:00
Record Label:
In the Red Records
Purchasing Links:
MP3, Apple Music
Release Date
March 8, 2024
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Meatbodies
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Shoegaze
Total Time:
57:00
Record Label:
In the Red Records
Purchasing Links:
MP3, Apple Music
Release Date
March 8, 2024
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Product Description: Meatbodies’ latest undertaking and borderline lost album, Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom, is their most varied and realized work to date. It’s a melodic, hook-filled rock epic in which frontman and lead guitarist Chad Ubovich faces the trials of sobriety, redemption, reinvention while literally learning to walk and play again. Resurrection not only accompanies the record, but its production as well, Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom examines themes surrounding love and loss, escapism, defeatism, hedonism, psychedelics and much more.
By 2017, Ubovich had reached a crossroads. After years of increasingly insane shows playing to heaving crowds with an ever-evolving and rotating door of personnel, fatigue had taken its toll and he realized another change was on the horizon. Retreating to the seedy Los Angeles underbelly—in search of meaning and a reset—he escaped into that world, ignoring his own well being, trying to forget his successes. It was at this point that Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom began to take shape—a project built by a man searching for new beginnings and his own sense of self. After sobering up, sessions began with longtime collaborator Dylan Fujioka. However, due to discrepancies with the studio, tensions were high and the plug was pulled. And as the world took a back seat, so did the idea of Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom. Not wanting to sit still at home, Ubovich began to comb through his previous demos, and, with that, 333 was born, the now de facto third Meatbodies album. Yet Flora was never far from Ubovich’s mind.
When restrictions started to lift, Ubovich headed to Gold Diggers Sound in Los Angeles, backed by engineer Ed McEntee and a team of colleagues and friends, and completed the final act to the album. It recalls the searing Blue Cheer-meets-Iggy Pop-with-psychedelia that permeated previous releases, but adds new elements of shoegaze, classic alternative, Britpop, drone, and hints of country. Simultaneously an ode to ’80s LA punk and the rise of indie / alternative music in the U.K., it plays like a radio station broadcasting from the void.
By 2017, Ubovich had reached a crossroads. After years of increasingly insane shows playing to heaving crowds with an ever-evolving and rotating door of personnel, fatigue had taken its toll and he realized another change was on the horizon. Retreating to the seedy Los Angeles underbelly—in search of meaning and a reset—he escaped into that world, ignoring his own well being, trying to forget his successes. It was at this point that Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom began to take shape—a project built by a man searching for new beginnings and his own sense of self. After sobering up, sessions began with longtime collaborator Dylan Fujioka. However, due to discrepancies with the studio, tensions were high and the plug was pulled. And as the world took a back seat, so did the idea of Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom. Not wanting to sit still at home, Ubovich began to comb through his previous demos, and, with that, 333 was born, the now de facto third Meatbodies album. Yet Flora was never far from Ubovich’s mind.
When restrictions started to lift, Ubovich headed to Gold Diggers Sound in Los Angeles, backed by engineer Ed McEntee and a team of colleagues and friends, and completed the final act to the album. It recalls the searing Blue Cheer-meets-Iggy Pop-with-psychedelia that permeated previous releases, but adds new elements of shoegaze, classic alternative, Britpop, drone, and hints of country. Simultaneously an ode to ’80s LA punk and the rise of indie / alternative music in the U.K., it plays like a radio station broadcasting from the void.
TRACK LIST:
1 .
The Assignment
(06:04)
2 . Hole (06:12)
3 . Silly Cybin (03:37)
4 . Billow (04:29)
5 . They Came Down (04:52)
6 . Trapped? (00:51)
7 . Move (07:24)
8 . I Believe In Pink (Interlude) (00:38)
9 . Criminal Minds (03:43)
10 . ICNNVR2 . (04:58)
11 . Psychic Garden (04:49)
12 . (Return Of) Ecstasy (03:31)
13 .Gate (06:50)
2 . Hole (06:12)
3 . Silly Cybin (03:37)
4 . Billow (04:29)
5 . They Came Down (04:52)
6 . Trapped? (00:51)
7 . Move (07:24)
8 . I Believe In Pink (Interlude) (00:38)
9 . Criminal Minds (03:43)
10 . ICNNVR2 . (04:58)
11 . Psychic Garden (04:49)
12 . (Return Of) Ecstasy (03:31)
13 .Gate (06:50)
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