Fucked Up Friends
by Tobacco
  • Record Label: Anticon
  • Release Date: Oct 14, 2008
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. The A.V. Club
    100
    A rock-solid Aesop Rock cameo is icing atop this sorely overlooked platter, which easily one of 2008's best driving records.
  2. Drowned In Sound
    90
    Fucked Up Friends is a blissful reminder that the practice of absorbing rather than regurgitating influences--innovation and invention--is alive and well.
  3. Urb
    80
    Tobacco’s jagged, unconventional sounds aren’t easily pinned down, and therein lies their appeal.
  5. cokemachineglow
    72
    While this solo venture is a unique take on the sound developed with BMSR, his song structures and instrumentation are built-in with monotony, practically usurping the purpose of developing a creative solo project in the first place.
  6. AllMusic
    70
    It's business as unusual and for the BMSR, their business has always been making challenging, inventive. and above all, hilariously fun, music. Fucked Up Friends represents no change in the status quo whatsoever.
  7. PopMatters
    70
    Though the ideas can start to redundantly plod by the album’s finale, Tobacco’s quality control remains high throughout.
  8. Rolling Stone
    70
    Tobacco's Tom Fec just made one of the year's best stoner-rock records--only it's powered by synths, hip-hop beats and vocoders instead of guitars.
  9. Alternative Press
    70
    In spite of the repetitiveness, Fucked Up Friends comes out gold and crispy and ready, for you to get your hands on it. [Nov 2008, p.164]
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  10. Blender
    70
    This music is better hazy, its messages garbled and out of reach. [Dec 08/Jan 09, p.82]
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  11. Pitchfork
    62
    It's an intriguing approach that yields a few great songs, but because of the glut of similar material, these standout tracks tend to get lost in a neutralizing fog of sameyness.
  12. Under The Radar
    60
    Black Moth Super Rainbow principal Tobacco's new solo full-length sticks to the formula established by his band, but adds a healthy dose of drum machine. [Fall 2008, p.87]
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  13. Q Magazine
    60
    Tobacco keeps things instrumental, lathering on freakish analogue effects but rejecting dance music's stylistic tics in favour of a pleasingly warped relative of space rock. [Aug 2009, p.112]
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  14. Mojo
    60
    Tobacco is more appealing when playing it straight. [Aug 2009, p.108]
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  15. Uncut
    60
    Fucked Up Friends isn't that great of a departure from this year's "Eating Us." [Aug 2009, p.105]
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User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. MilesN.
    Dec 16, 2008
    9
    Solid and very listenable album with very textured beats and solid rhymes from Aesop.
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