View basket “Ice on Fire” has been added to your basket. On Sale The Other King Tuff SKU: SP1230 Barcode: 098787123012 10.99 £20.00 £10.99 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sub Pop Released Date: 13th April 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info When asked to describe the title track from his new record, Kyle Thomas – aka King Tuff – takes a deep breath. “It’s a song about hitting rock bottom,” he says. “I didn’t even know what I wanted to do anymore, but I still had this urge, like there was this possibility of something else I could be doing… and then I just followed that possibility. To me, that’s what songwriting, and art in general, is about. You’re chasing something. ‘The Other’ is basically where songs come from. It’s the hidden world. It’s the invisible hand that guides you whenever you make something. It’s the thing I had to rediscover to bring me back to making music again in a way that felt true and good.” After years of non-stop touring, culminating in a particularly arduous stint in support of 2014’s ‘Black Moon Spell’, Thomas found himself back in Los Angeles experiencing the flipside of the ultimate rock and roll cliché. “I had literally been on tour for years,” recalls Thomas. “It was exhausting, physically and mentally. I’m essentially playing this character of King Tuff, this crazy party monster, and I don’t even drink or do drugs. It had become a weird persona, which people seemed to want from me, but it was no longer me. I just felt like it had gotten away from me.” The ten tracks that make up ‘The Other’ represent a kind of psychic evolution for King Tuff. No less hooky than previous records, the new songs ditch the goofy rock & roll bacchanalia narratives of earlier records in favour of expansive arrangements, a diversity of instrumentation and lyrics that straddle the fence between painful ruminations and a childlike, creative energy untarnished by cynicism. The soulful and cosmic new direction is apparent from the album’s first moments: introduced by the gentle ringing of a chime, acoustic guitar and warm organ tones, ‘The Other’ is a narrative of redemption born of creativity. As Thomas sings about being stuck in traffic, directionless, with no particular reason to be alive, he hears the call of “the other,” a kind of siren song that, instead of leading towards destruction, draws the narrator towards a creative rebirth. Elsewhere, tracks like ‘Thru the Cracks’ and ‘Psycho Star’ balance psychedelia with day-glo pop hooks. “The universe is probably an illusion, but isn’t it so beautifully bizarre?” he asks on ‘Psycho Star’, providing one of the record’s central tenets. At a time when everything in the world feels so deeply spoiled and the concept of making meaning out of the void seems both pointless and impossible, why not try? Thomas self-produced the record, as he did his 2007 debut – ‘Was Dead’ – but on a far grander scale. He recorded it at The Pine Room (the home studio Thomas built to work on the record), playing every instrument aside from drums and saxophone. He pulled Shawn Everett (War On Drugs, Alabama Shakes) in to assist with the mixing process. While it would be easy to think of ‘The Other’ as a kind of reinvention for King Tuff, Thomas views the entire experience of the record as a kind of reset that’s not totally removed from what he’s done in the past. “I can’t help but sound like me,” he says. “It’s just that this time I let the songs lead me where they wanted to go, instead of trying to push them into a certain zone. King Tuff was always just supposed to be me. When I started doing this as a teenager, it was whatever I wanted it to be. King Tuff was never supposed to be just one thing. It was supposed to be everything.” Gatefold jacket with custom dust sleeve and digital download coupon. Artist King Tuff Genre Rock And Pop Label Sub Pop Buying Options 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Gatefold Sleeve , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings The Other Raindrop Blue Thru the Cracks Psycho Star Infinite Mile Birds of Paradise Circuits in the Sand Ultraviolet Neverending Sunshine No Man's Land Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from King Tuff and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View King Tuff Smalltown Stardust Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sub Pop | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th January 2023 £19.00 - £20.00 Select options King Tuff Smalltown Stardust £19.00 - £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sub Pop Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th January 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View King Tuff King Tuff Rock And Pop | Sub Pop | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 28th May 2012 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders King Tuff King 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