King Tuff Shares Single & Video, “Invisible Ink”

King Tuff, aka Vermont artist Kyle Thomas, releases “Invisible Ink,” the rollicking new single from his recently announced new album, MOO, out March 27 via his new label MUP Records via Thirty Tigers. The track arrives with a video directed by Thomas himself that features his former Happy Birthday bandmates, Ruth Garbus and Chris Weisman, as his backing band.

MOO album finds Thomas going back to his roots, after years of living in Los Angeles and trying to make albums exploring new sonic palates, he moved back to Vermont, used the same tape machine, a Tascam 388, that he used to record his seminal debut album, played his old blue Gibson SG, and made an album of the music that always brought him the most joy, rock and roll.

He comments:

“I made MOO in 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.

“I stopped caring if there were mistakes. There’s not enough mistakes. I wish it sounded even worse. Rock & Roll is the music of rodents and bugs. It should sound like it crept from a decrepit trashcan or a crypt or a toilet. It is not chill or vibey, autotuned or on the grid. It is not perfect, which is why it’s perfect. And I don’t care if it’s dead or alive, cool or uncool: when I hear it, and when I play it, as a chubby and balding 43 year old punk weirdo, I FEEL ENERGIZED.”

King Tuff ‘MOO’ album artwork

MOO Track Listing:

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

Tour Dates:

April 15 – Troy, NY @ No Fun
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 25 – Houston, TX @ Moon Tower Inn *
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 11 – Sioux Falls, SD @ Total Drag
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