Ultima II Massage
Ultima II Massage finds the Black Moth Super Rainbow frontman moving from the gently corroded Technicolor psych-prog of 2010’s Maniac Meat to a full-on barrage of wobbling, low-end-heavy bizarro pop. Tom Fec’s work as Tobacco is frequently approached as a dichotomy of beauty and ugliness, and at times the "ugly" quotient is often ramped up to match the project's warped, grotty imagery.
Black Moth Super Rainbow’s Thomas Fec breaks out on his own again for another album under his Tobacco moniker.
As with all the Tobacco albums so far, the frontman of Black Moth Super Rainbow dispenses with that group's sticky whimsy in favor of something harsher and noisier, but still insanely catchy and fun.
A growling, distorted bass hums, a pitch-bent synth wobbles, clashing live drums shudder and lurch. "RIDE," commands a distorted, vocoder-destroyed voice, "RIDE, MOTHERFUCKER, RIDE." If the third album proper from Pennsylvania native and former Anticon beatsmith Tobacco is a ride, it's a goddamn rollercoaster
At the end of the '00s, Thomas Fec created the alter ego Tobacco to release music deemed too eccentric for his primary musical group, Black Moth Super Rainbow.
Black Moth Super Rainbow frontman Thomas Fec, or TOBACCO, releases his third solo album Ultima II Massage, named after a massage parlor in Fec's home state of Pennsylvania—though as an album it's less a relaxing backrub and more a microdermabrasion trea