Tobacco

TOBACCO makes blown-open digital psych-funk — just slimy with influence from strange dark places. It's like Parliament Funkadelic via Italian giallo and Dante Carfagna's private 45s collection, and visuals from one of the midnight movies at Cinefamily. Weird? We've not even yet begun. TOBACCO is fearless when it comes to f*ing with f*ed-up sounds, and within his music, beauty and ugliness melt down into the same primordial bass. The vocoder and synths read technological, sure, but what we've really got here is the age-old struggle between spaceman and caveman — and the caveman is actually the one from the future. Heavy songs for heavy reasons... — By Chris Ziegler / LA WEEKLY