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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 90’s 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 shape—a project built by a
man searching for new beginnings and his own sense of self. After sobering up, writing
sessions began at Ubovich’s 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 Ubovich’s 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