Food For Animals is Vulture Voltaire, Ricky Rabbit, and Hy. Formerly joined on stage by Dr. Dan aka NizzleONE aka The Young Anglo Metric aka The Slim Reaper They are real good. Find out more at foodforanimals.com. Scavengers buy | listen Cut and Paste Your Face EP buy | listen

PRESS Words on FFA “Scavengers” "Splattercore! Triple-time, chewed up and spat out jungle rhythms form the foundation for top-heavy constructions overloaded with Bollywood strings, guitar feedback and backmasked R&B vocals. It's enough to make El-P's music sound positively straight-forward" – Phillip Sherburne, the Wire, November 2004 The Wire “But like Public Enemy, these two pale hip-hop baccalaureates from Maryland succeed in capturing some of the confusion of our current epoch with crushing pop-noise narratives and some equally piquant politics; they're like the Bomb Squad subbing Einstuerzende Neubauten records for Slayer tracks or Atari Teenage Riot albums for, uh, backward whistling teakettles.” -J. Niimi/CityPages City Pages “Food for Animals step up to the plate and mostly obliterate the rhythmic conventions we've come to expect from hip-hop…what remains after DJ/producer Ricky Rabbit goes Rick James all over his ProTools setup sounds like a field recording from a sheet metal factory getting flattened by a herd of bulldozers. In fact, it isn't until two minutes into this 20-minute sound test that any semblance of a beat settles for MC Vulture Voltaire to rap over. But once he rolls through Rabbit's swarm of killer beats with a brassy, heavyweight tone, the gravity is difficult to ignore… “ -Jonathan Zwickel Pitchforkmedia Pitchforkmedia “…Food for Animals has the potential to release the next great indie hip-hop - and potentially the first great noise-hop - record.” -Alex Boer, 10/18/04 adequacy.net “Like a mad Gargamel, Ricky Rabbit likes to screw with hip-hop's DNA, removing such important aspects as rhythm and beats and replacing them with trashy cacophony of noise: clangs, fuzz and sharp edges. If this truly is food for animals, they're some fucked up animals.” -Sean Ford, July 27, 2004 cokemachineglow.com If the screams I let out at the Fox News Channel were run through Autechre's studio apparatus, I might get a sound that comes close to the messy intensity of Scavengers, an impressive first outing by D.C. hip-hop duo Food For Animals. From the belly of the nation's political beast, producer Ricky Rabbit chops up abrasive beats over and over for emcee Vulture Voltaire to lay down his agitated flow, which is no doubt influenced by the district's legendary hardcore scene. -Ron Albanese, Sept. 2, 2004 junkmedia.org “Food For Animals' disposition is truly authentic, reinventing hip-hop (again) to convey its message for a new context, accurately and convincingly. The musical soundtrack is ideal for the thematic subject matter of the album. Songs like "Cut and Paste" and "Scavengers" exemplifies Food For Animals' ruggedness and affection. And while today's electro hip-hop becomes convincingly more mainstream, Food For Animals hammer its context with brutal energy and frenetic force.” – Wolfman, Tiny Mix Tapes Tiny Mix Tapes ”I haven’t been able to take off my headphones since I was handed this promo album… This is Food For Animals and you must see them live.” -Jaysun Fort Drastic fordrastic.com Pop News Their sound is definitely unique. -Sable Yong Sound The Sirens Sound The Sirens “I could go on and on about all the things I like about Scavengers, but the bottom line is these guys are doing something unique and they’ve managed to take their unique sound and meld into something that could appeal to a wide array of listeners without alienating any of them in the process.” -Jonathan P Scene Point Blank Scene Point Blank “The title track to this Washington, DC duo's debut perfectly encapsulates their sound: a clattering blend of banging and crashing that brings to mind both Public Enemy and Wu-Tang. And then there are the punchlines…” -John Sakamoto Eye Weekly Eye Weekly “How can music this dense be so slippery? How can music this ferocious be so pleasurable to listen to? Check out Scavengers and see.” -Dave Heaton Erasing Clouds Erasing Clouds “Ten tracks and clocking in at a fraction under twenty minutes, this is a madcap Hip Hop record that has me grinning like a loon and dancing like there’s ass in my pants. The product of Washington DC duo Ricky Rabbit and Vulture Voltair, this in fact is more like Glitch Hop, with great raps exploding over the top of clashing electronics. It’s like Beastie Boys performing in a 19th Century Lancashire Mill with a radio playing Wu Tang Clan in the background. Yeah, that good. Really.” -Alistair Fitchett - Tangents Tangents “Hard, banging-pipes-against-metal beats back a political El-P style flow. Enjoyably noisy.” -Laze AddReviews AddReviews “This isn't an album that you can judge on one or two listens, the complex arrangements (although arrangements make them sound too uniform) and the frenzied nature of the album (it's hip-hops equivalent of the shower scene in Psycho!) means you need to give it time to let the different elements filter out and get under your skin. If you do that you'll have a real treat of an album” -Kev/The Beat Surrender The Beat Surrender