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PRE-ORDER Meatbodies - Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom [New Vinyl LP]

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Artist: Meatbodies

Title: Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Rock

UPC: 759718538410

Release Date: 2024

Record Label: In the Red Records

Album Tracks

1. 1. the Assignment
2. 2. Hole
3. 3. Silly Cybin
4. 4. Billow
5. 5. They Came Down
6. 6. Trapped?
7. 7. Move
8. 8. I Believe in Pink (Interlude)
9. 9. Criminal Minds
10. 10. Icnnvr2
11. 11. Psychic Gardens
12. 12. (Return of) Ecstasy
13. 13. Gaste

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 it's 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 it's 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.