Tomato Flower - No (Black Vinyl)

Tomato Flower - No (Black Vinyl)Something happened on No. The early EPs from Baltimores Tomato Flower were a pretty, dreamy psychedelia. Warm to the touch, like looking up at the trees on a cloudless day. On No, the four piece's (Mike Alfieri, Ruby Mars, Jamison Murphy, Austyn Wohlers) debut album, those trees, that cloudless sky, have become haunted, thorny, stormy. It takes Tomato Flower from buttoned up, almost technically formalist psych pop to something more urgent, raw,

You might not have heard of J Dilla

recorded in various stages and locations over the last twelve months

Through concepts & obscurations

and an experimental saxophonist walk into a karaoke bar

Sam Evian)

Drums melt into bass

At the same time

Jose Gonzales

and vulnerability of hand-played instruments and voice

and both gently intentional and evocative

Expanding on The Umbrellas’ breezy

Production-wise