Panic Blooms

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Panic Blooms
Panic Blooms Black Moth.png
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 4, 2018 (2018-05-04)
Genre Electronic
Length42:24
Label Rad Cult
Black Moth Super Rainbow chronology
Cobra Juicy
(2012)
Panic Blooms
(2018)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Exclaim! (7/10) [3]

Panic Blooms is the seventh studio album by American electronic band Black Moth Super Rainbow. It was released on May 4, 2018, under Rad Cult Records. [4]

Contents

Critical reception

Panic Blooms was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 72, based on 7 reviews. [1] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 73 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 5 reviews. [5]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Panic Blooms"4:03
2."Baby's in the Void"3:38
3."Rip On Through"1:55
4."One More Ear"0:51
5."Bad Fuckin Times"2:42
6."New Breeze"4:09
7."Aerosol Weather"1:44
8."June July 28"1:05
9."Bottomless Face"2:35
10."Permanent Hole"3:19
11."To the Beat of a Creeper"1:30
12."We Might Come Back"2:26
13."Harmlessly"2:25
14."Backwash"4:04
15."Sunset Curses"2:21
16."Mr No One"3:37
Bonus cassette
No.TitleLength
1."Smoky Mountain Neverthing"9:11

On October 18, 2019, Rad Cult released an alternate version of the album titled Panic Fades. In addition to two exclusive bonus tracks, the Panic Blooms tracks are slowed down to 75% the original speed to simulate a vinyl listening experience. [6]

Panic Fades CD track listing
No.TitleLength
1."The Neither"2:19
2."Bad Fuckin Times (Slow)"3:33
3."June July 28 (Slow)"1:23
4."Harmlessly (Slow)"3:09
5."Mr No One (Slow)"4:44
6."We Might Come Back (Slow)"3:11
7."Aerosol Weather (Slow)"2:16
8."Rip On Through (Slow)"2:32
9."Bottomless Face (Slow)"3:23
10."One More Ear (Slow)"1:07
11."Panic Blooms (Slow)"5:21
12."New Breeze (Slow)"5:28
13."Backwash (Slow)"5:20
14."Permanent Hole (Slow)"4:21
15."Baby's in the Void (Slow)"4:47
16."Sunset Curses (Slow)"3:05
17."To the Beat of a Creeper (Slow)"1:57
18."Good When It Fades"2:21

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
US Top Album Sales (Billboard) [7] 54
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [8] 15
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [9] 1
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [10] 17

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