Sometimes it's truly wonderful discovering new music. It's been a while for me, but sometimes you discover a band (or two) that turns you on so powerfully that you just have to collect all of their material. Years upon years upon years ago this happened to me with Olivia Tremor Control, and I spent a small amount of money on Ebay collecting all their albums. Yes, actual physical copies of their albums. I even have a "first edition" of Dusk at Cubist Castle.

I digress, however, and must cast my attention toward Black Moth Super Rainbow and The Octopus Project, two fabulous bands that I've since collected the complete works of, who join forces on this album to make something that I think is pretty much legendarily awesome as far as near-pure instrumental albums go.

I've never been a fan of post-rock, which is basically the only instrumental music you ever get in the whole genre of indie rock, there's something so seethingly pretentious about the whole tone of post-rock---like it's the score to some overwrought historical action drama no one would ever want to watch. Luckily groups like The Octopus Project and Holy Fuck play instrumental music that's more concerned with giving you a beat to move yourself to, either to dance or just to get shit done and please your ears while you do it.

This, The House of Apples & Eyeballs, is a marvelous chill out record that I would recommend to everyone. It's not entirely out of this world and hard to stomach, it's just some smooth tunes.

Sometimes you discover a band that is so you you have to wonder how you spent years never hearing a single damn word about them. Black Moth Super Rainbow is one of those bands for me. This is the sort of thing that really excites me about music: there's so much of it out there that there will always be something out there already in existence that you like that you haven't heard before. (And if it doesn't already exist and you don't even know you'd like it, someone will make it. That's why we have Sleigh Bells.)

Black Moth Super Rainbow play an electronic blend of psychedelia that can be compared to Caribou's Andorra (to the point you have to wonder if Caribou was inspired by Black Moth Super Rainbow) but with the main differences being a completely vocodered vocal (which is surprisingly not at all annoying and makes me think "less annoying Alaska in Winter") and a liberal dose of synthesizers.

There aren't a lot of hooks across this album, it's more something you put on while you get high on a lazy Sunday afternoon drive with the sunlight in your face, but it's not in that way that bothers you, but in that way that makes you feel warm and happy.

To summarize: this is happy sunlight music. (It's even a good night time chill out record...)