Shower Me In Symphonies

King Tuff “Raindrop Blue”

It’s kinda interesting that King Tuff and Ty Segall somehow both landed on the same specific vibe at about the same time: groovy strut rock with horns and a sharp contrast of dry sounds and bits of unnatural reverb. Great garage rock minds think alike, I suppose. “Raindrop Blue” sounds huge and signals enormous confidence – he’s singing about falling in love with someone in extremely bombastic terms, but he sounds entirely serious and earnest about it. I’m particularly fond of the drum fills in this track, and the way it busts out of a crisp pocket beat for these highly emotive deviations. That’s the song in a nutshell, really – controlled and self-assured enough to put it all out on the line and be unapologetically fabulous.

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