Food For Animals record, tour

By Alex Young on February 14th, 2008

Hot off their European tour with Aphex Twin and a collaboration with Faust, Baltimore hip-hop group Food For Animals will kick off a short U.S. tour tonight in their native city.

Food For Animals sound like no one else. Invoking the aural assault of early industrial, 80s hardcore, IDM experimentalism with hip hop lyricism, the Baltimore-based trio blow the hip hop genre wide open. Moored by Ricky Rabbit’s fractured, lush beat production — which references the gamut of contemporary urban and electronic musics (Southern hip-hop, ghettotech, Baltimore club, dubstep, power electronics, straight-up noise) — rappers Vulture V and new member Hy weave intricate back-and-forth flows explicating the highs and lows of life.

Tour dates after the jump…

Food For Animals 2008 Tour Dates:
Feb. 14th - Baltimore, MD @ Floristree Space w/ Microkingdom
Feb. 15th - Brooklyn, NY @ Silent Barn w/ Pissed Jeans, DJ Ron Morelli, President
Feb. 16th - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s w/ Pissed Jeans
Feb. 17th - Boston, MA @ MassArt w/ Tinsel Teeth, Magic People, Mike Kanin
Feb. 18th - NYC, NY @ Knitting Factory w/ President
Feb. 19th - Middletown, CT @ Wesleyan University Westco Cafe
Feb. 20th - Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Art Works
Feb. 21st - Cleveland, OH @ Now That’s Class!
Feb. 22nd - Detroit, MI @ Scrummage University
Feb. 23rd - Chicago, IL @ AV-Aerie w/ Pit Er Pat, Scalpels
Feb. 24th - Bloomington, IN @ The Art Hospital
Feb. 25th - Knoxville, TN @ The Pilot Light
Feb. 26th - Raliegh, NC @ The Nightlight

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Check Out:
“Planet Say” w/ Faust

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