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King Tuff
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Sub Pop
Title:
King Tuff
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Band:
King Tuff
Title:
King Tuff
Reviewed By:
Maarten Schiethart
Date Published:
27/06/2012
Label:
Sub Pop
Format:
CD
Release Year:
2012
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Californian King Tuff's jolly upbeat sixties pop is a canny blend of hooks, summer harmony vocals and lightweight chords. There is no genuine highlight on this second album.
Tracks such as 'Stranger' rely too much on impersonating both Marc Bolan's nasal sneering vocals and Alan Vega's shrieking yell. King Tuff did grow up on the right stuff though.
The album does make a fine listen yet I would like to have heard words and vocals of much greater clarity, in the same way that both Chris Stamey and Alex Chilton immediately caught your attention with their forcefulness. When King Tuff is, however, at his most upfront on 'Hit & Run', I thought he sang "healing nun".
This pastiche of great, mainly American pop music is though rather tremendous.Skiffle, indie, psycho blues and even melodic synth pop are all there yet in the end, you simply want him to be clearer spoken. An entry to my 2012 top 50 albums nevertheless!
Track Listing:
01) Anthem
02) Alone & Stoned
03) Keep On Movin'
04) Unusual World
05) Bad Thing
06) Loser's Wall
07) Stranger
08) Baby Just Break
09) Stupid Superstar
10) Evergreen
11) Swamp Of Love
12) Hit & Run
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