Electronic musician, Tom Fec of Tobacco and Black Moth Super Rainbow

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week we are revisiting our conversation with musician Tom Fec, better known by his stage name, Tobacco. His latest album, Hot Wet & Sassy comes out at the end of October. Tom joined Jesse last year to talk about his musical influences, his creative process, and why he rejects the label of psychedelic rock. Plus he tells us why you'll occasionally find him and his bandmates in Black Moth Super Rainbow performing concerts in masks.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Ford.
0:21.1	It wasn't long ago.
0:22.5	It was 10 years that record labels used to send us dozens of unsolicited CDs in a mail.
0:31.5	So many unsolicited CDs.
0:34.5	Obviously, we all know why record labels aren't spending any more money on thousands and thousands of free CDs for radio producers and DJs and music critics and so on and so forth.
0:46.5	But it was a nice time in my life.
0:48.5	That was actually how I heard about my next guest.
0:51.5	I was doing this show out of my apartment in Los Angeles and we got a CD.
0:58.5	It's a black and white photograph on the cover, a picture of a man's hand.
1:02.5	And on the hand, there is a woman's face.
1:05.5	The band was called Black Moth Super Rainbow and the title was Eating Us.
1:10.5	And I listened to it mostly because I thought the cover was interesting.
1:15.5	I had no idea what to expect.
1:17.5	All the days and nights, I'm dead and blinded.
1:22.5	Boy, you will now search mine.
1:28.5	It turned out it was great.
1:30.5	Rich and kind of dirty and unsettling.
1:33.5	There are all these old synthesizers and bits of tape distortion and weird processed vocals.
1:40.5	They sound a bit like Boards of Canada or David Bowie or 9-inch nails.
1:44.5	It's very difficult to describe, but I couldn't stop listening.
1:47.5	You and me and the moods went up for the sound.
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