Thursday, November 5, 2009

Tobacco

Tobacco is the mastermind behind the band Black Moth Super Rainbow, an amazing group that I've posted about in the past.

Tobacco has made a record called Fucked Up Friends that basically sounds just like Black Moth Super Rainbow, which is a good thing. Every track is raw psychedelic goodness.
Basically, the anatomy of Tobacco and BMSR tracks are as follows:
1. distorted, fat drum beats
2. fat, crunchy (but sometimes round and smooth) synth bass
3. poppy synth melodies, usually catchy as hell
4. mellotron flutes
5. sometimes some acoustic guitar thrown in for good measure
6. vocoder robot vocals with hard-to-distinguish lyrics. when you can decipher the lyrics, they're usually about the sun melting, death and decay, and eternally blossoming blissful flowers. yeah!

3 comments:

DC said...

WHA?!?! BMSR solo joint?!?!

rootless said...

Just checked this out, really really cool, thanks for turning me on to it, will be in heavy rotation.

DC said...

Some guy is selling a mellotron on eBay right now...