{"id":10916,"date":"2012-05-31T07:33:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T15:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=10916"},"modified":"2012-05-31T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T18:52:54","slug":"new-music-king-tuff-stream-the-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-05\/new-music-king-tuff-stream-the-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music&#8211;King Tuff&#8211;Stream The New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-10964\" title=\"King-Tuff-608x608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/King-Tuff-608x608-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/King-Tuff-608x608-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/King-Tuff-608x608-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/King-Tuff-608x608-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/King-Tuff-608x608.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>King Tuff <\/strong>is the new record (just released on Tuesday) from <strong>Kyle Thomas, <\/strong>who is also the front-man of<strong> Happy Birthday <\/strong>and vocalist for J. Mascis\u2019 band Witch.<strong><\/strong>\u00a0 This is his first album for <strong>Sub Pop<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been listening to the new album on repeat and have simply been Tuffed up.\u00a0 King Tuff is just in time for summer and is an amiable mash-up of some of &#8217;70s-rock&#8217;s best sounds (running the gamut from glam to late &#8217;70s power-pop&#8211;check out <em><strong>Bad Thing<\/strong><\/em> for the latter).\u00a0 Thomas nasals along like <strong>Dylan\/Vile<\/strong> with some added <strong>Marc Bolan (T.Rex)<\/strong> sneer, and all on top of a melodic, winning power-pop melange.\u00a0 We hear T. Rex meeting the <strong>Stones\/Kinks<\/strong> while visiting a <strong>Buzzcocks<\/strong> recording session.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a rollicking, rocking ride.\u00a0 So it comes as welcome relief when the band downshifts to an acoustic rave-up on <em><strong>Baby Just Break the Rules<\/strong><\/em>, and slows the sound down on <em><strong>Evergreen<\/strong><\/em> (with its <strong>Stone Roses<\/strong> mien) and <em><strong>Swamp of Love<\/strong><\/em> (our favorite song on the album and a T.Rex-esque pop masterpiece that you can listen to below).\u00a0 Though you&#8217;ve heard it all before, King Tuff is catchy and fun-filled, and you haven&#8217;t heard it quite like this.\u00a0 Great stuff.\u00a0 Go on and <strong>get Tuff<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out<em><strong> Swamp of Love<\/strong><\/em> and then stream the whole album below it, and at bottom you can check out the official video for their song <em><strong>Bad Thing<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 And once you&#8217;re fully Tuffed up, you can go over and buy the album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subpop.com\/artists\/king_tuff\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F44573148&amp;show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"King Tuff - King Tuff [FULL ALBUM STREAM]\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L9SRvBQaHPQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"King Tuff - Bad Thing [OFFICIAL VIDEO]\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Eghg8092l_E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Tuff is the new record (just released on Tuesday) from Kyle Thomas, who is also the front-man of Happy Birthday and vocalist for J. Mascis\u2019 band Witch.\u00a0 This is his first album for Sub Pop. We&#8217;ve been listening to the new album on repeat and have simply been Tuffed up.\u00a0 King Tuff is just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}