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By 2017, Meatbodies frontman Chad Ubovich had reached a crossroads. After years of increasingly insane shows playing to heaving crowds with an ever-evolving and rotating door of personnel, fatigue had taken its toll and Ubovich realized another change was on the horizon. It was like the car had run out of gas in the middle of the road, and I knew I had a long walk ahead of me. Retreating to the seedy Los Angeles underbelly in search of meaning and a reset. Ubovich escaped into that world, ignoring his own well being, trying to forget his successes. I was living like a 90s vampire out of a comic book. Stumbling around LA with the socialites, partying away my sorrows, trying to forget.It was at this point that Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom began to take shapea project built by a man searching for new beginnings and his own sense of self. After sobering up, writing sessions began at Ubovichs home and various studios with longtime collaborator Dylan Fujioka. Eventually, the official production for Flora began in 2019, but it was a story left on the editing table. Due to discrepancies with the studio, tensions were high and the plug was pulled. Left with an album only half baked, it seemed like Flora had been put to rest. After the fires cooled and many discussions about the future of the album. Ubovich finally got the green light to finish production for Flora in 2020 when he hit another snag the pandemic. And as the world took a back seat, so did the idea of Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom.Not wanting to sit still at home, Ubovich began to comb through his previous demos with Fujioka while writing for Flora. And with that, 333 was born, the now de facto third Meatbodies LP. Yet Flora was never far from Ubovichs mind and once again he revisited the idea of completing the now fabled album. As restrictions started to lift, Ubovich headed to Gold Diggers Sound, backed by engineer Ed McEntee and a team of colleagues and friends, Ubovich completed the final act to the album, but he still wasnt quite out of the woods just yet. He now faced a new crisis, one that proved to be more terrifying than any before: his home that he had spent the last 8 years in had been deemed uninhabitable and he wound up in a hospital bed where he spent the next month of his life.
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