Tomato Flower - No (Black Vinyl) Electronic Music which so often commingles bliss

which so often commingles bliss and doom

Joe Armon-Jones

The collection loosely parallels the melancholic narrative behind the latter

had been a career breakthrough

Borrowing both its sounds (which have no real origin or internal space) and its idioms from electronic music

Tomato Flower - No (Black Vinyl) Electronic Music which so often commingles blissSomething 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,