Black Moon Spell

“King Tuff’s new record is called Black Moon Spell. It was produced and recorded by Bobby Harlow at Studio B in Los Angeles, California, in the hot winter of 2014. No one involved was prepared to make a record, but an invisible hand pushed them to do it. Perhaps it was God or that special someone we all know and love called The Devil. God and The Devil actually have very similar interests. They both love electric guitars and they both want you to listen to Black Moon Spell and freak the fuck out.” Read the full bio for Black Moon Spell over here: www.subpop.com/artists/king_tuff.

In a way, Black Moon Spell is King Tuff mastermind Kyle Thomas' post-fame record: the tales are taller, the drugs are better, the women wilder, and there’s a conquering hero at the record's center to tell us all about it. If the stories are slightly different, for better or worse, the songs remain the same.

On his 2012 self-titled album, his first for Sub Pop, Kyle Thomas (a.k.a. King Tuff) became a hero at writing gooey garage punk filtered through a sticky haze of weed smoke. High and in the clouds one minute and high and on the couch the next, the in-the-pocket songwriting features a giddy mix of charming sandy-beach…

They rocked at dawn on the front line, but do King Tuff now belong on the Home Guard?

When Kyle Thomas was writing what would eventually become his first record as King Tuff—in a musty basement in Brattleboro,…

As King Tuff, multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Kyle Thomas melts down garage rock hedonism, glam rock glitter, and undeniable pop catchiness into one unstoppable force.

Kyle Thomas' King Tuff returns fiercer than ever with his take on psychedelia and classic rock, with generous doses of headbanging, humour and sentimentality.

The first riff on Black Moon Spell (on the title track, no less) is proof that Kyle Thomas (aka King Tuff) is gunning for a space among the guitar heroes.

Review of King Tuff's 'Black Moon Spell', by Northern Transmissions, the LP comes out on September 22 on Sub Pop, the first single is "Eyes Of The Muse"