Tomato Flower - No (Black Vinyl) Alternative Music ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series

‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo

Armed with a record that celebrates rock in all of its glory

through moves to Waco and Austin

The music matters more than any of that

Topanga Canyon

Tomato Flower - No (Black Vinyl) Alternative Music ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic seriesSomething 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,