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Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

  • Summary: The solo debut for the electronic artist Tobacco also features Aesop Rock
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. A rock-solid Aesop Rock cameo is icing atop this sorely overlooked platter, which easily one of 2008's best driving records.
  2. Fucked Up Friends is a blissful reminder that the practice of absorbing rather than regurgitating influences--innovation and invention--is alive and well.
  3. 80
    Tobacco’s jagged, unconventional sounds aren’t easily pinned down, and therein lies their appeal.
  4. Blender
    70
    This music is better hazy, its messages garbled and out of reach. [Dec 08/Jan 09, p.82]
  5. 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]
  6. 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.
  7. 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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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. MilesN.
    Dec 16, 2008
    9
    Solid and very listenable album with very textured beats and solid rhymes from Aesop.