King Tuff - Smalltown Stardust [LOSER EDITION DARK GREEN VINYL]

Sub Pop Records

£21.40

Format: LP, LOSER EDITION DARK GREEN VINYL
Catalogue No.: SP1525X
Barcode: 0098787152500
Release Date: 27 Jan 2023
Genre: Indie/Alternative

 The fifth full-length by the multi-talented psychedelic rock / folk / pop artist King Tuff is a joyful ode to nature, youthful inspiration, and the solace of small towns and tight communities.
 Features collaborators Sasami Ashworth, Andy Cabic (Vetiver), Griffin Goldsmith (Dawes) and more.
 Recorded and engineered by King Tuff, co-produced with Sasami, and mixed by Greg Koller (Perfume Genius, Sky Ferreira, Mac Miller).
 On ‘Smalltown Stardust’, Thomas takes us on his journey to a place where past and present collide, where he can be a dreamer in love with all that he sees. References to his Brattleboro upbringing abound, but at the core of ‘Smalltown Stardust’ is Thomas’s desire to commune with nature on a spiritual level. Images of the natural world, from blizzards to green mountains to cloudy days, fill the songs. “I consider nature to be my religion,” he explains, and ‘Smalltown Stardust’ is nothing if not a spiritual exploration.
 In the end, ‘Smalltown Stardust’ is not merely a nostalgia trip. Thomas not only conjured a special time in his life, he found new inspiration, surrounded by collaborators and a sense of love and wonder for nature. If the first King Tuff record was content to merely state Thomas was no longer dead, ‘Smalltown Stardust’ is a paean to what that life means. A statement of belief and a hymnal to the magic still to behold all around us.

Tracklisting
Love Letters To Plants
How I Love
A Meditation
Portrait Of God
Smalltown Stardust
Pebbles In A Stream
Tell Me
Rock River
The Bandits Of Blue Sky
Always Find Me