Name: The Other
Brand: King Tuff

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Bonus disc: No

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-04-13

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PIAS

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Standard:20

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Black Vinyl with Download.

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Limited Loser Blue Coloured Vinyl with Download.

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Artist

King Tuff

Genre GB

Garage / Surf / Trash

Label GB

Sub Pop

King Tuff is a lo-fi / garage rock musician from the USA. He has been releasing material on Sub Pop and Burger Records since 2006. In addition to his solo work, King Tuff also played in Ty Segall's backing band "The Muggers", which was formed following the release of their album Emotional Mugger.

With his raw and energetic sound, King Tuff has gained a loyal following among fans of artists like Dead Ghosts, Jacuzzi Boys, Ty Segall, and Bass Drum of Death. His music is often characterized by its catchy hooks and gritty guitar riffs.

Whether he's performing as a solo artist or with The Muggers, King Tuff delivers electrifying live shows that leave audiences wanting more. If you're a fan of lo-fi garage rock, be sure to check out King Tuff's impressive discography.

Short for "Subterranean Pop" 

The label was an outgrowth of [a=Bruce Pavitt]'s Olympia, WA based (print) fanzine, which became the well respected cassettezine of the same name. 

After his move to Seattle he ran a music column in the Seattle Rocket also called Sub Pop.

After initial forays into the record label world with a [a=Green River] 7" (not officially on Sub Pop) and the Sub Pop 100 LP, the label exploded onto the indie scene with four influential colored vinyl 7"s which included [a=Mudhoney]'s "Touch Me I'm Sick" which made the year-end top 10 playlist of nearly every music journalist in the world.

Subsequent hyping of the label in the English music press put them on the map, and grunge was born.

Label-Code is 03159; rarely found printed on releases (basically only on releases manufactured/licensed by Warner/WEA Germany)

Back In Stock

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-and-roll bacchanalia narratives of earlier records in favor 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 dayglo 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, and 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.

LP+ - Limited Loser Blue Coloured Vinyl with Download.