When a band is made up of members called Tobacco, The Seven Fields of Aphelion, Power Pill Fist, Father Hummingbird, Iffernaut and Ryan Graveface you always have a sneaky feeling that their sound is going to err on the side of the psychedelic and brain fried. Throw in the fact that their previous band names include Allegheny White Fish (apparently Pittsburgh slang for a condom floating down the river) and satanstampingcaterpillars, they have toured with the Flaming Lips and their last full album Dandelion Gum came with a Scratch n’ Sniff cover then you can start to get an idea about the way that the loose collective known as Black Moth Super Rainbow operate.It is somewhat surprising then that an act who in the past have been defined by their ragged lo=fi approach have taken the gamble of bringing in Dave Fridmann on production duties. Best known for helping the likes of the Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev hone their lo-fi tendencies into a more focussed end product, Fridmann’s production brings out the more pastoral side of the band, bringing in sweet guitar loops, real drums to replace drum machines and even the odd banjo here and there. The smooth sounds seem to iron out much of the idiosyncrasies of previous Black Moth Super Rainbow outings, and move the band decidedly closer to the coffee table chill out of Goldfrapp and Air. Sugar coated psych pop is still at the heart of all that BMSR do, yet on Eating Us it seems a lot more calculated.'Twin Of Myself' burbles along prettily enough, like an off cut of some early BBC Radiophonic Workshop recordings, or, dare I say it, a hipster ringtone. With lolloping beats and an attitude so laid back it’s virtually horizontal it is an easy going listen perfect for a sticky summer day. 'Gold Splatter' continues in much the same way, a drawn out vocoder vocal drawling out phrases about “beautiful friends” and “fucked up dreams” over a light acoustic refrain before a typically Fridmann-esque string section moves proceedings further into ‘chill out compilation’ territory. 'Iron Lemonade' takes a turn for the sinister, repeating the phrase “Iron Lemonade, wash my friend away, Neon Lemonade eat my face away”- its as if HAL 9000’s breakdown had been had been produced by T-Pain and his infernal autotune device.Black Moth Super Rainbow’s decision to deliver all the vocals on Eating Us through a vocoder could be a problem for some listeners, as although the idea works well, over the course of a whole record it can become a little wearing. With Fridmann on hand to smooth out the rougher edges of previous efforts, there are times where the album merely drifts by pleasantly without really doing much to hold the listeners attention. That said the tracks that bookend the album are the real highlights here: the delicately picked minor key banjo of closer 'American Face Dust' fits surprisingly well into the analog synth driven sound of the band, while the organ riff of opener 'Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise' is the kind of slacker pop summer anthem that you might expect to have been the product of a blissed out recording session between Beck and Stereolab in their respective heydays. 72%Black Moth Super Rainbox on Myspace