March 8 street date. 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, and 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. 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.
March 8 street date. 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, and 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. 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.
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