| King Tuff / Black Moon Spell |
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| Album: | Black Moon Spell | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | King Tuff | Added: | Oct 2014 | |
| Label: | Sub Pop Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2014-10-17 | Pull Date: | 2014-12-19 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 21 | Dec 14 | Dec 7 | Nov 16 | Nov 9 | Nov 2 | Oct 26 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 15, 2022: | Lunar Echoes Staircase Of Diamonds | 4. | Jul 24, 2019: | The Library Blck Moon Spell | |
| 2. | Apr 17, 2022: | Lunar Echoes Headbanger | 5. | Jan 30, 2019: | Take a spin Blck Moon Spell | |
| 3. | Feb 14, 2022: | Funhouse Blck Moon Spell | 6. | Mar 15, 2018: | veggie tales Headbanger |
| Album Review |
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| Alejandra Salazar Reviewed 2014-10-13 | ||
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King Tuff Black Moon Spell Sub Pop Records, 2014 Fuzzy, punk-y, lo-fi-esque glam rocker jams. King Tuff’s head-bopping, toe-tapping melodies contrast with frequently cliché and macabre subject matter. Unpolished, grungy and often tongue-in-cheek, this is quite a fun album to listen to. FCCs: 6, 8 ***1. (4:53) Title track. Highly repetitive (melodically and lyrically), but sooooo catchy. Electric guitar has loads of fun during the bridge/post-bridge. Play, play, play! 2. (2:10) Whiny vox, haywire guitar, very solid track albeit likely being the weakest on the album. **3. (3:25) Lots of reverbed vox. Psychedelic vibe. Feels like it’s backed with a little 70s groove. 4. (3:28) A bit of that angry, 90s grunge influence. More guitar solos, a bit slower paced than earlier songs. “Bang your little head” will be stuck in your head for ages. ***5. (2:39) Beach-y little tune (Beach Boys-esque), as cute as the album is capable of getting. Upbeat, with some nice harmonies and rhythmic clapping, whistling, etc. 6. (1:02) Makes me think of The Moldy Peaches! Simplest little melody, just a strumming guitar and lo-fi-filtered vox. Transitionary tune. FCC: “you look like shit” 7. (2:58) Psychedelic background “ahh”-ing—really nice touch. Slower tune but kind of tense, like there’s something just under the surface. Reminiscent of late 60s/early 70s rock. ***8. (2:55) Emphasis on the the details: loving the bass here (“bum-ba-dum-dum”), the driving clapping beat, jangling little tambourine, “ah-la-la-la”s. One of the best of the album, unfortunate FCC: “batshit insane”, “that shit that fucks me up” *9. (1:30) Fast, fast song. Punctuated by well-placed claps and wails. Interesting warped, wailing, echoed guitar. 10. (1:53) FUN (albeit slightly disconcerting) vocal effects: layered/filtered/reverbed “GO!” at the chorus. Has the effect of sounding a bit spacey/dreamy/robotic, even. 11. (1:18) “Dun-dun-dun-dun” synth comes into play (80s influence, for sure). Echoed, distant, dramatic opening vox. Rhythmless lo-fi guitar comes in to mess with the simple/spacey vibe. **12. (4:15) Upbeat, acoustic opening, lightest/least lo-fi song on the album. Smoothly transitions to some messier, whirring guitar in the later half. Very hippie vibe. ***13. (4:47) Weird opening montage of sounds (ten secs), eventually empties out to a yearning, ballad-y acoustic track that culminates in a sped-up whirlwind of symbols and drums (chorus). Some background harmonizing comes into play in the last minute or so. Really beautiful song. **14. (3:50) Upbeat, assertive, classically rock n’ roll. Dance, head bop, clap or sing along to the “oooh”s and “aaahh”s—it’s a fun song. | ||
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