Exorcise Tape is the debut album by Demon Queen, a duo consisting of Black Moth Super Rainbow frontman Tobacco and Tucson rapper Zackey Force Funk, released August 6, 2013, by Rad Cult Records and The Orchard.
[4] The project was made remotely by the duo "sending files over the [internet] between Pittsburgh and Tucson", "writing a soundtrack conceived for a seedy strip club in Zackey Force Funk's neighborhood, a place where he imagined the dancers to be satanic (like the demon strippers in the Tarantino/Rodriguez film From Dusk till Dawn).
Zackey "seems to drag the project down at nearly every turn" with a "falsetto [that] is thin at best and often gets buried underneath the layers of synth, and, when he can be heard, he's usually rambling on and on about pussy", but that "doesn't mean there's nothing of value" on the album, with Conaton specifically praising Tobacco's "fine production work" and saying that songs improve "whenever guest rappers show up".
"[5] Spin's Chris Martins notes "Puni Nani" which "digs up some vintage Prince and doesn't bother to dust off the grit", "Bad Route" which "sounds like abstracted, acid-addled G-funk, and "Love Hour Zero" which "makes like Boards of Canada on ecstasy", calling the album a "warped electro-funk opus" and "some freaky stuff worthy of your ears' attention.
"[1] Mxdwn.com's April Siese notes that "unlike trashy production compatriots Wallpaper, Demon Queen's sleazy mix of vulgar lyrics and party-happy samples function sincerely rather than as a cheeky nod to the YOLO culture plaguing most contemporary dance music today", and calls the project "a respectable concept album fit for the finest strip club in all of Tucson, but if you've come to the Exorcise Tape to truly work it out, you may encounter a few issues along the way.