The sound made by Tobacco comes from a similar place, though his albums suggest the dark, corrupted, and fucked up urges that spawned from a pile of Moogs and mescaline found in the woods outside Pittsburgh.

Insular, gross, completely bonkers.

[xrr rating=3.5/5]Hailing from the Pittsburgh area, Thomas Fec (aka Tobacco) spent his childhood in a region that created beauty from the remains of an industrial downturn. Still known the world over as the “Steel City,” Pittsburgh avoided the collapse of the industry (which claimed many Rust Belt cities as cultural casualties) and has transitioned into a hub for creativity across …

1. Flatbush Zombies – “97.92” (Electric KoolAde Records) On Flatbush Zombies’ breakout single “Thug Waffle” MC Juice rapped “Hip-hop is dead, Zombies for prez!” and it’s looking like a full zombie takeover is in the cards. Juice lays down a hyper-positive verse and Meechy’s so-high-he’s-hoarse flow is always welcome. But the real star here is Erick The Architect, whose flow …

Tobacco LA UTI Rating: 2.0/5.0 Label: Anticon Last year’s full-length release from Black Moth Super Rainbow’s Tobacco (aka Tom Fec), Maniac Meat, ranked high on the year-end list I floated on up to Spectrum Culture HQ. Tobacco said of his work and Meat, in particular, that he’s trying to create a soundtrack of sorts for the bizarre imagery one can …

Tobacco Maniac Meat Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Anticon On the heels of last year’s Eating Us, Black Moth Super Rainbow’s most divisive record to date, the band’s enigmatic frontman, Tom Fec, has funneled a sophomore sonic assault through his carcinogenic alter-ego, Tobacco. Maniac Meat is a snarling murk of fuzzy vocoder, trashy analog synth, big beat and broken guitar that expands …