Black Moon Spell<\/i> is the latest offering from bedroom garagepop wunderkind Kyle Thomas. This album finds Thomas running wild with the 70s glam sound found on his earlier albums. Fuzzed out and poptacular, Black Moon Spell<\/i> bops along from tune to tune with catchy choruses and pop hooks jammed into anywhere that\u2019ll fit. Much like Thomas\u2019s last two albums, Black<\/i> never takes itself too seriously and approaches its glam idols with irreverence. He likes to toe the line of imitation closely, as the vocal similarity to Marc Bolan gets pretty uncanny at times, and some of those guitar riffs could be copy\/pasted right off Mott The Hoople or Ziggy Stardust.<\/p>\n
I think a bit is lost here with the purposefully goofball approach though, as it fails to be as memorable as King Tuff<\/i> or the powerpop glamrock it worships. Nevertheless, tunes like \u201cBlack Moon Spell\u201d almost demand a second listen with its teasing chorus hooks and crunch-ass guitar. \u201cEyes of the Muse\u201d finds itself a lot closer to Big Star, but is still unmistakably King Tuff. \u201cRainbow Run\u201d is the garage-iest track here with its echo-laden verses. \u201cI Love You Ugly\u201d is a fun little tune but is unfortunately only a minute long.<\/p>\n
All in all, Black Moon Spell<\/i> is definitely a fun, rompy October album, but I think we might be seeing the full-on revival era wear out its welcome here. It\u2019s one of the most originality-infused revival albums this year, but I can\u2019t help but feel that it just doesn\u2019t feel nearly as fresh or relevant as King Tuff<\/i> did even two years ago. It\u2019s not to dismiss the song quality on Black, <\/i>but Thomas and his contemporaries seem to already be finding diminishing celebration for their musical grave robbing.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n All things being said, I feel the promo sheet concludes things best: \u201cGod and The Devil actually have very similar interests. They both love electric guitars and they both want you to listen to Black Moon Spell<\/i> and freak the f*** out\u201d.<\/p>\n Recommended if you like: T. Rex, Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Ziggy Stardust<\/i><\/p>\n Recommended Tracks: “Black Moon Spell,” “Rainbow’s Run,” “Eyes of the Muse,” and “I Love You Ugly”<\/p>\n Reviewed by Doug Bybee on October 2, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Black Moon Spell is the latest offering from bedroom garagepop wunderkind Kyle Thomas. This album finds Thomas running wild with the 70s glam sound found on his earlier albums. Fuzzed out and poptacular, Black Moon Spell bops along from tune to tune with catchy choruses and pop hooks jammed into anywhere that\u2019ll fit. Much like Thomas\u2019s last two albums, Black never takes itself too seriously and approaches its glam idols with irreverence. He likes to toe the line of imitation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":32071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3230,181],"tags":[2392,2224,2391],"class_list":["post-32070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-music-rotation","category-rock-rotation","tag-black-moon-spell","tag-doug-bybee","tag-king-tuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/140708-king-tuff-black-moon-spell-cover.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}