Fucked Up Friends

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Fucked Up Friends
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Studio album by
Tobacco
ReleasedOctober 14, 2008 (2008-10-14) [1]
Recorded2007–2008
Genre Electronic
Length38:24
Label Anticon
Producer Tobacco
Tobacco chronology
Fucked Up Friends
(2008)		 The Allegheny White Fish Tapes
(2009)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 73/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The A.V. Club A [4]
Cokemachineglow 72/100 [5]
NME 8/10 [6]
Pitchfork 6.2/10 [7]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [9]
URB Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]

Fucked Up Friends is the first studio album by American electronic musician Tobacco. It was released through Anticon on October 14, 2008. [1] Aesop Rock provided vocals on "Dirt". [11]

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 73% based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [2]

Kevin O Donnell of Rolling Stone gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5, calling it "one of the year's best stoner-rock records." [9] Meanwhile, Joe Colly of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.2 out of 10, saying, "as an album, Fucked Up Friends lacks focus and variety." [7]

Jeff Weiss of LA Weekly placed it at number 46 on the "50 Best Albums of the Year" list. [12]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Street Trash"1:55
2."Truck Sweat"3:09
3."Hairy Candy"3:15
4."Hawker Boat"2:06
5."Side 8 (Big Gums Version)"3:17
6."Yum Yum Cult"1:06
7."Berries That Burn"2:07
8."Get My Nails Did"0:11
9."Dirt" (featuring Aesop Rock)4:01
10."Gross Magik"3:54
11."Little Pink Riding Hood"2:01
12."Backwoods Altar"4:08
13."-"0:05
14."Tape Eater"2:24
15."Pink Goo"2:22
16."Grease Wizard"2:09
Total length:38:11

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  2. 1 2 "Fucked Up Friends - Tobacco". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ Sendra, Tim. "Fucked Up Friends - Tobacco". AllMusic . Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ Martins, Chris (January 5, 2009). "Tobacco: Fucked Up Friends". The A.V. Club . Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  5. ↑ Langille, Justin (October 17, 2008). "Tobacco: Fucked Up Friends". Cokemachineglow . Archived from the original on February 13, 2010. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  6. ↑ Parkin, Chris (July 2, 2009). "Album Review: Tobacco - 'Fucked Up Friends'". NME . Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  7. 1 2 Colly, Joe (October 31, 2008). "TOBACCO: Fucked Up Friends". Pitchfork . Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  8. ↑ Gabriele, Timothy (November 4, 2008). "Tobacco: Fucked Up Friends". PopMatters . Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  9. 1 2 O'Donnell, Kevin (December 11, 2008). "Fucked Up Friends". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on December 16, 2008. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  10. ↑ Rodriguez, Ryan E. (October 28, 2008). "Tobacco :: Fucked Up Friends". URB . Archived from the original on December 16, 2008. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  11. ↑ Weiss, Jeff (April 23, 2008). "Tobacco of Black Moth Super Rainbow & Aesop Rock-"Dirt"". LA Weekly . Retrieved July 5, 2018.
  12. ↑ Weiss, Jeff (December 22, 2008). "Weiss' 50 Best Albums of the Year (#50-41)". LA Weekly . Retrieved July 5, 2018.
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