Sweatbox Dynasty

TOBACCO album #4 Ghostly International

Thomas Fec (aka Tobacco) has trafficked over the years in the weird, the uncanny, the not-quite-right. His new album tries for a slightly less confrontational, still-unconventional take on synthpop.

The man of mystery from rural Pennsylvania and leader of Black Moth Super Rainbow rains electro-psych shrapnel with increasing control.

By the time ex-Black Moth Super Rainbow leader Tobacco released his fourth album, Sweatbox Dynasty, in 2016, anyone who had heard a single song by either his former band or his solo incarnation knew exactly what to expect: blown-out beats informed by hip-hop, goopy synths that sound serrated and sticky at the same time, and bubblegum-sweet and horror movie-spooky melodies with vocals fed through an overworked vocoder.

Electronic experimentalist and analogue fanatic Tobacco is back with a total melter: fourth album Sweatbox Dynasty is a beast to be feared.

Thomas Fec started his Tobacco alter ego to create music that ultimately feels darker, denser and more sinister than that of his main gig as...

Thomas Fec, better known by his stage name TOBACCO, makes music destined for abstract adjectives. Squishy, dirty, fuzzy, vibey, bouncy are each appropriate, if ultimately inadequate to describe the psychic dirge of his fourth solo record, Sweatbox Dynasty

'Sweatbox Dynasty' by TOBACCO, album review by Adam Williams. The full-length is out 8/19 on Ghostly International. TOBACCO, plays tonight in Brooklyn, NY.