Shrapnel is the beat driven solo project of Sydney musician Sam Wilkinson (Day Ravies, King Tears Mortuary, Mope City) - a mostly electronic outfit akin to early Atlas Sound or bubblegum Suicide.
Tobacco Dream is the second single from Shrapnel's debut album "Tobacco Dreams", a psych-pop haze of electric guitar, minimal synth and drum machine; a dizzying ode to the everyday, sounding something like the rush that accompany's one's first (or last) cigarette.
The 14 track album spans an impressive number of styles and moods, from the 8 minute xanax motorik of 'Diet Coke (In All Its Glory)', to the Osaka inspired electronics of 'Ice Hat'. It is an album that reflects the ADD eclecticism of modern music listening, whilst retaining a seemingly impossible overall coherence throughout; making "Tobacco Dreams" an album for nearly all occasions.