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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Chad Ubovich-led Meatbodies was worked on pre-pandemic with Dylan Fujioka before it was completed at a new studio after Ubovich overcame losing his house and recovery from a month-long hospital stay.
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- Record Label: In the Red Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Mar 11, 2024This is a powerful piece of work, as serious about the trippy silliness as about the pitch and heave of amp overload. Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom, like its title, is several things at once. It rocks like a hurricane, dreams like a lotus eater.
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Mar 12, 2024With Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom, Ubovich offers a resounding reaffirmation that psych-rock is forever, even if the escape it provides from our cruel world is ultimately temporary.
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Classic Rock MagazineMar 11, 2024Mesmerises with tales of sobriety and redemption (it says here) that sound more unapologetically stoned and out there than ever. [Apr 2024, p.83]
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UncutMar 11, 2024This is a marvellous collection of hooky acid rock that nods to UK '80s indie as well as '70s classic rock. [Mar 2024, p.32]
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Mar 11, 2024Here everything feels like a copy of something that had already been done better by another band. In the end, there's little to no reason to pull this record out instead of Siamese Dream or Nothing's Shocking. Or the other three Meatbodies albums, which have all the oddball thrills and unique perspective Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom seems to have lost along the bumpy journey to completion.