Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends

It's been awhile since i've posted an album here, and that needed to be amended.

Tobacco, in case anyone was wondering, is the leader of the infamously reclusive group Black Moth Super Rainbow, an odd psych synth hippie freakfest of a band whose last album, Dandelion Gum, was praised by many but listened to by few. The album brought a combination of dreamy pop songs with a sort of analong synth crunch so pure only Boards of Canada could top the band's Moog tweaking. With the new solo album, Tobacco clearly shows who was behind those very Moogs in the recording studio. Fucked Up Friends is nothing new for fans of Black Moth, or at least at first. Tobacco lets his synths shine from track one, with only the occasional guitar or sampled flute show up, if only to accent (you guessed it) those thick thick synth lines. However, a vast majority of the album is instrumental, a key distintion between Black Moth and the solo Tobacco. With the lack of vocoded vocals, Tobacco is free to not only let the synths do the talking, but show off something that I felt was sorely overlooked in many reviews of Dandelion Gum: the Beats. Fucked Up Friends is a dynamo of a beats record, with Tobacco showing off his percussive skills as well his keyboard mastery. This record wouldn't seem out of place next to Flying Lotus or some of his other Warp counterparts, the only difference being Tobacco would rather see you in the forest rather than the record store.

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