Stream: Meatbodies, ‘Hole’

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Meatbodies (Photo by Amanda Adam)

Chad Ubovich describes Meatbodies’ new album, “Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom” (out March 8 via In the Red Records), as a reset — a quest for redemption and reinvention while staring down the challenges of sobriety and fatigue.

“A lot happened with this record,” he says. “It took me five years, I was out of a band, I had a drug problem, the album almost didn’t happen, the pandemic made it almost not happen again, and then in the end I almost died in the hospital, lost my house and had to learn to walk again. It’s been quite a road, but I could not be more thrilled with the final output. I guess the juice was worth the squeeze?”

The majestic first single, “Hole,” points to the affirmative. It’s a six-minute cleanse, a tsunami of shoegaze/alt-rock guitars big enough to wash away dread and fill Ubovich’s “hole inside your heart.” “That was one of the first songs I wrote, and I think it’s really indicative of that time,” he says. “How I was thinking and feeling and what I wanted to accomplish with this LP before I even knew it.”

||| Stream: “Hole”

||| Live: Meatbodies play the Lodge Room on March 23.

||| Previously: “Reach for the Sunn,” “Creature Feature”