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- Summary: The solo debut for the electronic artist Tobacco also features Aesop Rock
- Record Label: Anticon
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 14
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Mixed: 4 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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A rock-solid Aesop Rock cameo is icing atop this sorely overlooked platter, which easily one of 2008's best driving records.
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Fucked Up Friends is a blissful reminder that the practice of absorbing rather than regurgitating influences--innovation and invention--is alive and well.
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Tobacco’s jagged, unconventional sounds aren’t easily pinned down, and therein lies their appeal.
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BlenderThis music is better hazy, its messages garbled and out of reach. [Dec 08/Jan 09, p.82]
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Alternative PressIn 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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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.
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UncutFucked Up Friends isn't that great of a departure from this year's "Eating Us." [Aug 2009, p.105]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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MilesN.Dec 16, 2008Solid and very listenable album with very textured beats and solid rhymes from Aesop.
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