8 March 2024

Photo by Amanda Adam

Today Los Angeles‘ psych rockers MEATBODIES fronted by voice/guitarist/songwriter Chad Ubovich, have added a 4th LP to their résumé. It’s baptized FLORA OCEAN TIGER BLOOM. Order info here.

Press info: 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, reinvention while literally learning to walk and play again.

Resurrection not only accompanies the record, but its production as well, and examines themes surrounding love and loss, escapism, defeatism, hedonism, psychedelics and much more.

TUTV: Without a shadow of a doubt their best achievement, so far. Their 4th
resonates like a badass riff-hook-lick machine with, sonically, lots of echoes from the swinging 60s/70s psych pop/rock era translated to modern-day guitar-noizz electricity.

From harmony experts The Byrds and The 13th Floor Elevators‘ delirious garage hullabaloo to the nightingale splendor of Scottish heroes Teenage Fanclub. From Black Sabbath drones and The Stone Roses‘ sassy Madchester swagger of their 1989 debut LP to Jane’s Addiction towering art-rock flamboyance.

Chad Ubovich could be the main vocalist of any of those bands. His voice has that timeless psychedelia-rock timbre that elevates this record’s tracks to far-out highs. We, fans, know that he’s a six-string virtuoso too and that he’s backed by a terrifically solid band. He has a lot of demons to fight with, but in the end the healing power of music triumphs.

Big rollicking Meatbodies score.
One for best-of-the-year lists.

Singles/clips: Hole / Move / Billow

– HOLE –

– MOVE –

– BILLOW –

ALBUM

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