| “There’s So Much to Take In That I Had to Actually Try to Take In the Music:” An Interview With TOBACCO | November 12, 2020 |
Chris Daly speaks to the most experimental of experimental artists. For reasons of basic human decency, we have chosen not to summarize what this (hysterical) interview is about.
| Seventeen Summers in Developing: Aesop Rock and TOBACCO’s Malibu Ken | February 11, 2019 |
Chris Daly dives into the weird world of the stalwart MC and psychedelic producer's first collaborative full-length.
| One Look at You and I Can’t Disguise: On Tobacco’s Cover of “Hungry Eyes” | September 12, 2018 |
Chris Daly uses the video for Tobacco's cover of the Dirty Dancing soundtrack standard as an excuse to write about weird porn.
| Growing Fear of a Tobacco Free World: Black Moth Super Rainbow Return with ‘Panic Bloom’ | May 7, 2018 |
Chris Daly breaks down the latest Black Moth Super Rainbow LP.
| Sweat La Familia: Tobacco’s Sweatbox Dynasty | August 14, 2016 |
Chris Daly looks at Tobacco's Sweatbox Dynasty, due out April 19th.
The sludge maestro returns with a new album out next month.
| Tobacco: King of the Awkward Massage Situation | April 29, 2014 |
Chris Daly is rarely safe for work If anyone was concerned that Tobacco had softened his approach after his most accessible work to date with last year’s Cobra Juicy, I point you no further than the video for his latest single, “Streaker.” Directed by Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric fame, the most recently released […]
| The Second Mixtape of Spring: Chris Daly | April 23, 2014 |
Chris Daly is naughty. By nature. The “problem” with spring is that it never lasts long enough for anyone’s liking. Whether I’ve been living in Chicago, with its seemingly endless winters, or Washington, D.C., with its too humid summers, there’s never enough upper 60s/lower 70s, first buds popping on the trees, leave the coat at […]
Willie Schube originally recorded this post on a 4-inch reel. The press release announcing Tobacco’s first album in four years, Ultima II Massage, ends like this: “No happy ending.” Sounds about right. At it’s best Tobacco’s music sounds like psychedelia run through a garbage disposal. I mean this in the best way imaginable. The […]
| Tobacco: Demon Pizza Proprietor, Lipstick Destroyer | April 22, 2013 |
Tobacco returns for some more demon disco — vocoders that sound like they’ve been left for the vultures. Lines about girls who say they are strawberries. Synthesizers that glow like the Ghostbusters slime that you could buy circa 1985. I don’t know why I like this stuff so much. I suspect it’s that no one […]
