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Posted Jul 31st, 2010 (4:59 pm) by David Findlay

The mystique surrounding the Black Moth Super Rainbow frontman alter-ego, Tobacco, is slowly starting to burn out. As his popularity grows, so too does the ripples of information which becomes available to his fans. For a while, it seemed as though the experimental professor of analogue tech would be the next Burial like figure - nothing but a sound to which faces get plastered too, a real head-scratcher. However, it seems as though even the most secretive musical ventures have a way of finding a face, or at least a hand covering one. If the mystery of Tobacco is becoming a bore, then the video for his latest single, "Grape Aerosmith," which features a not-so-obvious vocal performance from Beck, might just bring back some exciting questionmarks. It's damn mad.

Like most of Tobacco's offerings, "Grape Aerosmith" is a short and sweet piece of sandpapered and synthesized melodica, coming in at just over the two minute mark. Beck can be heard (kind of) but not seen in this short. Instead, we get some hilariously odd footage of a young man, jumping around in the most frenetic and disturbing way imaginable, colored over with cheesy eighties-tinged effects and Hitchcockian camera tricks. Check it out down below.

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