Hot Wet & Sassy

It's been four years since Sweatbox Dynasty, the fourth solo LP from Pennsylvanian experimentalist TOBACCO. In that time, Tom Fec's project has toured with Nine Inch Nails, provided the theme song to HBO series Silicon Valley, and teamed with Aesop Rock for a collaborative album as Malibu Ken. He now returns to Ghostly International for Hot Wet & Sassy, a full-length album oozing with his most playful and approachable songs to date, which, conversely, express notions of antilove, self-hate, and disappointment in others. Pop impulses have always surged beneath the surface of his sound - blown-out bass, analog synths, drum machines, and Fec's unmistakable analog gurgle and hiss - here they've bubbled to the top. 'I feel like it's the most I've been able to refine what I'm doing,' says Fec. 'For the past decade I've had this motherfxcker on my shoulder that makes me pick away at structure and melody. Purposely covering up moments because I can. That really came to a peak on Sweatbox. So I wanted the opposite this time. Write the songs without ripping them in half. I went from 'what would the Butthole Surfers do?' to 'what would Cyndi Lauper do?'' And what would Trent Reznor do? Fec found his answer straight from the source. Their collaborative track, 'Babysitter,' fuses their voices into one deranged presence: 'I'm the new babysitter,' they alert, before pivoting into a menacingly saccharine bridge. The track tumbles on a tom fill, then a punishing synth line rips into a cacopho

Tracks

1~1~Centaur Skin
1~2~Pit
1~3~Headless To Headless
1~4~Stabbed By A Knight
1~5~Chinese Aquarius
1~6~Ass-To-Truth
1~7~Jinmenken
1~8~Babysitter (Ft. Trent Reznor)
1~9~Road Warrior Pisces
1~10~Poisonous Horses
1~11~Mythemim
1~12~Body Double
1~13~Motherfuckers 64
1~14~Perfect Shadow

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Tobacco
Release Date: 30 October 2020
Genre: Dance & Electronic
Label: GHOSTLY
Distributor: Rocket Group