Everyone knows that Tobacco is a little, lets say, fucking crazy. As head honcho at Black Moth Super Rainbow - the Philly based collective of hippie recluses - Tobacco lead the troop deep into Pennsylvania forests to hole up in log cabins and make 70s synthesizer music with vocoder vocals vehemently vying for visibility. (breathe)
The results were like polite LSD trips through a meadow. Their 2007 Dandelion Gum LP earned the group some much needed attention. Their years of pop experiments had finally paid off with a clip on MTV and some favorable critical review.
Prompted by their success, Tobacco released some solo work. The formula is roughly the same: vintage synths, vocoder filters and outsider motifs abound. But unlike the easygoing pop sensibilities of BMSR, Tobacco's music sounds like the same gooey concoction thrown into a blender with forks and knives thrown into the mix as well. The tracks clatter and crash in ways BMSR only hinted at. To balance out his manic tendencies, Tobacco's tracks have a bit of hip hop flair that makes them bump rather than clang.
This clip for his track "Super Gum" finds him and his cronies getting frisky with what looks like ET. Maybe theirs some deep meaning. Maybe theirs not. Either way I'm freaked out
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