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In 2008, Black Moth Super Rainbow frontman Tom Fec released Fucked Up Friends, the first album from his alter-ego Tobacco. And Fec hasn’t quit Tobacco yet. (Get it? You get it.) On May 25, Anticon will release the vividly titled Maniac Meat, Fec’s second album as Tobacco. And Fec’s roped a big-name collaborator into this one: Beck, who must’ve been unable to resist working with someone whose name rhymes with his.

Beck guests on two Maniac Meat tracks: “Fresh Hex” and the awesomely named “Grape Aerosmith”. Perusing the Maniac Meat tracklist, many of these song titles sound like the kind of things Beck could’ve come up with circa Midnite Vultures: “New Juices From the Hot Tub Freaks”, anyone? “TV All Greasy”? “Motorlicker”? If Fec can get Beck back into his M.V. pimp-stride, there’s a special place in heaven reserved for him.

Tobacco will spend March and April touring the U.S. – Pitchfork

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