Tomato Flower - No (Black Vinyl) Electronic Music Lifestyles Of The Laptop Café

Lifestyles Of The Laptop Café is pearly and wistful

Already in the midst of a major life change

which so often commingles bliss and doom

Steve Holmes

Nobukazu Takemura

Tomato Flower - No (Black Vinyl) Electronic Music Lifestyles Of The Laptop CaféSomething 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,