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photo: by Wyndham Garnett
photo: by Wyndham Garnett
Kyle Thomas has announced his sixth King Tuff album, MOO, which will be out March 27 via MUP Records / Thirty Tigers. He produced it himself in Vermont with the same Tascam 388 multi-track he used to make his debut, King Tuff is Dead.
After 2023’s folky, bucolic Smalltown Stardust, MOO appears to be a return to the glammy garage that originally got him noticed, as you can hear on first single, “Twisted on a Train.” Kyle says,
“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.” You can listen below.
King Tuff will also be on tour this spring beginning with NYC-area shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg on April 16 and Tubby’s Kingston on April 17. Both of those shows are with Morgan Nagler and tickets go on sale Friday, January 30 at 10 AM. All dates are listed below.
MOO
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
King Tuff – 2026 Tour Dates:
April 16 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
April 17 – Kingston, NY @ Tubby’s *
April 18 – Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie *
April 19 – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd Music House *
April 21 – Raleigh, NC @ Kings *
April 22 – Atlanta, GA @ The EARL *
April 24 – New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa *
April 26 – Austin, TX @ 29th Street Ballroom *
April 29 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah *
April 30 – Los Angeles, CA @ Sid The Cat Auditorium *
May 1 – Ojai, CA @ Ojai Women’s Center *
May 2 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel #
May 4 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza #
May 5 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios #
May 7 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge #
May 9 – Denver, CO @ Globe Hall #
May 12 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
May 13 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall ^
May 15 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme ^
May 16 – Toronto ON @ Sound Garage ^
May 17 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB ^
May 19 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground ^
May 20 – Portland, ME @ SPACE ^
May 21 – Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom ^
May 22- Boston, MA @ Middle East Upstairs ^
May 23 – Brattleboro, VT @ Stone Church ^
With support from
* Morgan Nagler
# Gabriel Bernini
^ Mod Lang
English (US) · 