King Tuff has announced a new album called MOO. The follow-up to 2023’s Smalltown Stardust is set to land on March 27 through Kyle Thomas’ own MUP Records, via Thirty Tigers. Check out the frenzied, rollicking lead single ‘Twisted on a Train’ below.
Commenting on the track, Thomas said: “I wrote and recorded the whole dang song in the span of a few hours, which was basically the opposite of how I had been working in the computer. Spending hours moving waveforms around like a zombie, comping vocals, second guessing, trying to make things sound not lifeless, trying to make anything sound good at all, took months. But here on the tape it was so much more alive. More like painting or collaging. More like making actual music. Every move I made stuck like super glue. It was effortless. It was pure joy.”
Thomas made the new LP after moving Vermont, using the same tape machine, a Tascam 388, that he used to record his debut album, King Tuff Was Dead. He also made a physical newspaper that accompanies every copy of the album, The Daily Moo. “I stopped caring if there were mistakes,” he said. “There’s not enough mistakes. I wish it sounded even worse. Rock & Roll is the music of rodents and bugs. It should sound like it crept from a decrepit trashcan or a crypt or a toilet. It is not chill or vibey, autotuned or on the grid. It is not perfect, which is why it’s perfect. And I don’t care if it’s dead or alive, cool or uncool: when I hear it, and when I play it, as a chubby and balding 43 year old punk weirdo, I FEEL ENERGIZED.”
MOO Cover Artwork:
MOO Tracklist:
1. Twisted on a Train
2. Stairway to Nowhere
3. Invisible Ink
4. Landline
5. Crosseyed Critters
6. Oil Change
7. East of Ordinary
8. Unglued
9. Delusions
10. Backroads
