| Meatbodies latest undertaking and borderline lost album, Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom, is their most varied and realized work to date. Its 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. The album 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. |
