Tobacco

Black Moth Super Rainbow's electro-pop developed some extra shine on 2009's Eating Us, all without abandoning its mangled, gooshing, startling flirtations with the grotesque. Nonetheless, leader Tobacco has plenty of sickly swirled analog-synth melodies and ridiculous song titles to spare, as he proved on 2008's Fucked Up Friends, his solo debut for the Anticon label. "Hairy Candy" and "Berries That Burn" sounded like BMSR songs left to wander outside the band's focus, and often into strangely bumpin' places (hence "Dirt," which featured guest raps from Aesop Rock). Tobacco's solo follow-up, Maniac Meat, boasts a guest contribution from someone else who knows how to mix the funky with the disorienting: Beck.  

Updated 03/10/2010