Tomato Flower - No (Black Vinyl) Electronic Music sceneries and stories in the

sceneries and stories in the listener

Nobukazu Takemura

busy percussion lines sound out from drum kit

” and on the sped-up Syd Barrett stylings of “Under The Rolling Moon

This is not hyperbole

Tomato Flower - No (Black Vinyl) Electronic Music sceneries and stories in theSomething 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,