Fight With Tools by Flobots

Fight with Tools, the debut album from Denver's Flobots, first surfaced in October 2007 and came back around on Universal Republic in May 2008, the band's major-label launch. It was recorded in 2007 around their home state of Colorado by the experimental hip-hop outfit Jamie Laurie had formed in 2005, and critics, if not bowled over, gave credit to the production and to the weight of what the songs were about.

"Handlebars" was the one that broke it open, a hit on Modern Rock radio the following April and on the charts in the UK, New Zealand and Canada, with "Rise" following it onto the airwaves. In the first week of June 2008 the album leapt 168 places on the Billboard 200 to peak at number 15, and it went on to sell more than 265,000 copies.

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