#smalltown stardust

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King Tuff: Symphony Of A Man (Official Audio)

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King Tuff - Rock River

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King Tuff Live Preview: 3/31, Empty Bottle, Chicago

Photo by Wyndham Garnett

BY JORDAN MAINZER

For his fifth full-length album and first in 5 years, amidst the uncertainty of a just-starting global pandemic, L.A.-via-Vermont fuzz rocker King Tuff decided to make a record to remind himself “that life is magical.” The result, January’s Smalltown Stardust (Sub Pop), is a far cry from the drawn-out, languid psychedelia of 2018′s The Other, Kyle Thomas opting for more specific references to nature, places, and objects that mean something to him. It’s his best record yet.

Of course, it helps when making an album during a global pandemic, if your housemate is Sasami Ashworth (aka SASAMI), who served the role of co-pilot, producing, writing, and singing along Thomas. Her airy voice is the perfect foil to Thomas’ deadpan sneer-cum-croon, immediately apparent on songs like “Tell Me” and “How I Love”. More important, her presence and curatorial ear seems to have refined Thomas’ singing and songwriting. “How I Love”, a song Thomas admits was tough for someone normally “lost in nothing but noise for so many years,” obscured by guitars, is an immediate Beatles-esque standout. “The Bandits of Blue Sky” starts with lo-fi drum fills and turns into a 70s AM radio piano rocker rife with orchestral synths, Thomas cinematically delivering a tall tale about a ghost roaming the streets. And the layers of saxophone, vocals, and clattering percussion propel “Always Find Me”, a heady tune where Thomas describes himself as “a loser lost in my headphones,” as are we in witnessing the expanse of the music.

Even if you’re not a spiritual person, it’s easy to dive right into Thomas’ joyous expressions of his own spirituality. On “Portrait Of God”, he asks, “Have you ever tried to imagine the shape of God?”, his jubilant singing and Steely Dan guitar leads paying tribute to our ability to find meaning in the natural world, art, and love. “Stars align, the planets dance, life happens in between,” he declares on the gentle “Pebbles In A Stream”, a mystical ode to love both romantic and platonic. Best, everyone can relate to the concept of the title track, album title, and album as a whole: Whether you’re remembering Route 91 in your small town or the sounds of the city you grew up in, “smalltown stardust” is that intangible feeling you get from nostalgia, a little melancholic, mostly wistful. This retro rocker captures it well.

King Tuff plays tonight at Empty Bottle. NYC rock band Tchotchke, who released an equally retro, supremely catchy self-titled album last year, goes on at 10 PM. Sorry, Jamie Lee Curtis.

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New Audio: King Tuff Shares Quirky and Breezy "Symphony Of A Man"

New Audio: King Tuff Shares Quirky and Breezy "Symphony Of A Man" @KINGTUFFY @subpop @subpoplicity @sasamiashworth

Brattleboro-born singer/songwriter and musician Kyle Thomas is the creative mastermind behind the acclaimed indie rock recording project King Tuff . Thomas’ sixth King Tuff album, the SASAMI co-written and co-produced Smalltown Stardust was released earlier this year to critical praise from the likes of The AV Club and Stereogum. The album is “an album about love and nature and youth,” Thomas…

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Steddie Masterlist

hi! welcome to my Steddie masterlist. here you can find all of my Eddie related works :)

(all of my wips are in green, and my smutty fics have an * beside them)

you can find my general masterlist here, and you can also find all of my fics and more on ao3 and wattpad :)

requests are closed at the moment :/

multichaps:

Baby Stardust singledad!steve x roomate!eddie christmas fic

Soccer Dads steve and eddie's daughters become best friends

Steddie Week 2023 submission :) following all the prompts for 7 days

one shots:

here is a link to my steddie ficlets list because I write so many

Sunflower Boy steve x eddie meet as kids, then again in s4

Smalltown Boy s1 au - inspired by bronski beats song smalltown boy

Communication Breakdown eddie doesn't know he's dating steve

Missin’ You Big Boy steve x eddie angst

Cant Keep A Secret rob & ed come out to eachother - steddie & ronance

Hellraiser steve x eddie accidental date trope

Skull Rock steve x eddie gay awakenings at its finest

Oblivious extraOblivious!steve x superPining!eddie

Valentines Sucks * eddie x steve hate valentines until they kiss

First Time * dom!top!virgin!eddie and steddie pre first time nerves

Sunshine Smile rockstar!eddie and steve find love again after separating

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1. what's your favorite song from so much for stardust ??

2. do you think michael wheeler would be an enjoyer of fall out boy ??

asking for like science or whatever

1- ahhh they’re all so good…but i’ve ended up putting the kintsugi kid on repeat for days now every time i hear it so probably that…yeah so the kintsugi kid, so much for stardust, heartbreak feels so good, flu game, love from the other side, i am my own muse, and hold me like a grudge are my favs

now what’s yours?? for science obviously—data collection or whatever

2- dude yes!! Mad World by Tears for Fears is on his spotify playlist with Smalltown Boy, and even if they weren’t basically both 80s pre-emo songs, fob tends to tell more adventure stories in their songs than a lot of bands, plus, the double-meaning of that line in thnks fr th mmrs?? he would eat that shit up

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A little late to the party, but the ever-excellent @ikyoucrow tagged me to post some songs I've been hitting repeat on lately...

I'm gonna go ahead and tag @olivemd, @hideinsideyourlovingarms, @creature-fearx, @thristybloggs, @adore-blk, and @quiteawful.

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King Tuff — Smalltown Stardust. 2023 : Sub Pop.

! enjoy the album ★ donate a coffee !

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Songs You May Have Missed #741

King Tuff: “Pebbles in a Stream” (2023) The power pop/punk sound Vermont’s Kyle Thomas (aka King Tuff) formerly embraced has given way of late to a quieter, more reflective style, and never more so than on 2023’s Smalltown Stardust. Thanks to the songwriting and production touches contributed by Sasami Ashworth, gentle keys and strings bring perfectly suited ornamentation to tender, emotive…

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BEST OF 2023

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End of Year Lists Below:

The headings will take you through to more expansive Playlists.

Individual song links take you to youtube videos and a playlist of all selections.

Album list links will take you to places to buy the records.

MUSIC IS NOT FREE!   Always Support the makers and buy your favorite music direct from the artists, preferably via bandcamp or direct. 20 SONGS (links to Larger Playlist)

Andy Schauf - Wasted on You

Leah Senior - Where Am I Now?

Yo La Tengo - Aselestine

Shirley Collins - High and Away

Lankum - Go Dig My Grave

Weval - Remember

Fever Ray - North

Juan Waters - Let Loose

Peter Peter - I Promise

Summer Flake - Ordinary

Nicholas Krgovich - Cup Full

Tim Hecker - Winter Cop

Westerman - Idol; RE-run

Keanu Nelson - Kutjupa Tjuta

Ulaan Passerine - Gathering

King Tuff - Pebbles In A Stream

André 3000 - Ants To You, Gods To Who?

MGMT - Mother Nature

Brian Eno - We Let It In

Mac Demarco - Gualala 2

10 ALBUMS (links to Playlist)

Andy Schauf - Norm

Leah Senior - The Music That I Make

Ulaan Passerine - Dawn

Shirley Collins - Archangel Hill

Weval - Remember

Tim Hecker - No Highs

Lankum - False Lankum

Okonski - Magnolia

Juan Waters - Wandering Rebel

King Tuff - Smalltown Stardust 2023 SONGS (Video Playlist) ***CLOSING NOTE: Even though I use Spotify I am not captured by it. As a listener, don't let this Spotify Wrapped bullshit sweep you up. They've got me completely wrong because the data gets skewed by how you listen in random ways. Don't let it tell you what you are. The people that run that company are a bunch of homogenising data-stealing pricks and their algorithm and influence will be the death of music. Make your OWN PLAYLISTS. Keep them Private. Find your own way in music listening by using things like IT as a TOOL only to recommend and find music that you then can go and buy via Bandcamp and other means to support the artists that they DO NOT.

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King Tuff: Full Performance (Live on KEXP, 2023)

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King Tuff - Smalltown Stardust

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Favourite records of 2023

Jerry David Decicca - New Shadows

King Tuff - Smalltown Stardust

Andy Shauf - Norm

Le Cri du Caire - Le Cri du Caire

Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World

Sluice - Radial Gate

Brendan Eder Ensemble - Therapy

Doug Paisley - Say what you like

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily - Love In Exile

Damien Jurado - Sometimes You Hurt the Ones You Hate

Rose City Band - Garden Party

Kassi Valazza - Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing

Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings

Blake Mills - Jelly Road

Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))

Stephen Steinbrink - Disappearing Coin

Setting - Shone a Rainbow Light On

Resavoir - Resavoir

Animal Collective - Isn’t it Now?

Woods - Perennial

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Favourite Albums 2023

1 - Wilco - Cousin

2 - BC Camplight - The Last Rotation of Earth

3 - The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony

4 - Blur - The Ballad Of Darren

5 -The Tubs - Dead Meat

6 - Queens Of The Stone Age - In Times New Roman

7 - The National - Laugh Track

8 - The National - The First Two Pages Of Frankenstein

9 - Hotline TNT - Cartwheel

10 - Iggy Pop - Every Loser

11 - Mudhoney - Plastic Eternity

12 - Teenage Fanclub - Nothing Lasts Forever

13 - Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V

14 - Wednesday - Rat Saw God

15 - King Tuff - Smalltown Stardust 

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King Tuff - Smalltown Stardust

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King Tuff - Smalltown Stardust

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