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- Summary: The fourth full-length release for the Pennsylvania producer was recorded on cassette and then into a sampler to create the 12 tracks.
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- Record Label: Ghostly International
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Aug 5, 2016We understand if the phrase 'breaking the album format' makes you eye-roll, but this collection of un-songs, half-rhythms and sound snapshots really questions the point in breaking a record into individual tracks.
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Aug 5, 2016Though the album isn’t an entreaty for mass acceptance, Tobacco’s music does sound increasingly comfortable in its stitched-up skin.
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UncutAug 5, 2016Tobacco's stew of narcoleptic beats, tape experiments, Vocoder mutterings and vintage synths in states of distress has lost some potency in the nine years since BMSR's classic Dandelion Gum, but remains wholly idiosyncratic. [Sep 2016, p.81]
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Aug 19, 2016While the revved motors and displaced robot pop satisfy your expectations, you find the virus progressing too quickly for you to evaluate its efficiency. A blue bar at the bottom tracks the virus’s progress to completion; you’re quite alarmed to see this already halfway full, as if someone twisted the fabrics of time in your ears.
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Aug 9, 2016Fec’s most disturbing songs were often his funniest, but Sweatbox Dynasty rarely allows Fec’s puckish side to rise from the muck.
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Aug 16, 2016It's doubtful Sweatbox Dynasty will make it into anyone's regular rotation, but Fec has no doubt carved himself out a cozy little corner of difficult trash music, and a visit now and then is worth the effort.
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Aug 5, 2016You need big dollops of generosity to accept that the numerous one-to-two-minute tracks here are anything more than sketches, but even if you’re willing, the likes of Wipeth Out and Dimensional Hum are still ugly--and worst of all, conservatively so.
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