Uh, what? Funk punk?! Get out of the city! That’s a new one on me but this kind of sounds like that. The opening “wah” of the guitar tips you off that this might be punk but it ain’t punk like you’re used to. And then the second tune is like emo-Weezer or something. This is probably huge on college campuses in the northwest; it has such a new vibe to it. Hopefully they’ll make their way across the country.
- Impact Press
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Uh, what? Funk punk?! Get out of the city! That’s a new one on me but this kind of sounds like that. The opening “wah” of the guitar tips you off that this might be punk but it ain’t punk like you’re used to. And then the second tune is like emo-Weezer or something. This is probably huge on college campuses in the northwest; it has such a new vibe to it. Hopefully they’ll make their way across the country.
- Impact Press
Tuffy comes through with an album that captures some of the spirit of mid-‘70s art-punk bands like Television or the Voidoids. Though neither as artistically challenging nor blatantly nihilistic, Permanent For Now will, at the very least, jog listeners’ minds back to the days before CBGB’s became a fixture for the New York chic. The band’s mix of trebly, edgy Guitar and punchy, insistent bass lines craft the same feeling, if not the same attitude, as Hell’s contributions to adolescent punk rock. While the band never gets, nor even aims for, the full-blown power that’s associated part and parcel with punk rock nowadays, there’s a subtle defiance that creeps just below the slightly groomed songs on Permanent For Now. Tuffy isn’t going to hit listeners with a wall of angry Guitar, but the disheveled vocal tracks that bear a striking resemblance to those of Ned’s Atomic Dustbin’s Jonn Penney in “Happy” or the scratchy Guitar and quickstep rhythms of “Electrophotoplasm” hint at the same retreat from the mainstream of classic punk rock.
- Aversion
An impressive second release from this local group shows them diversifying their sound. I hear tidbits of the Clash (especially in the vocals) and even the Catherine Wheel (#2). All in all, a nice collection of pop songs.
- Cheryl Waters, KCMU Radio
Tuffy plays brash, loud Rock and Roll, and Songs We Know rocks like a mutha. How can you slag any record with titles like “Chet Baker” and “Jerk Sandwich?”
- John Holcomb, Amplifier Magazine, Issue # 17
Relative upstart Tuffy recently released a souped-up pop debut called Songs We Know. It’s a promising effort, with well-constructed guitar squalls, decent harmonies, and toe-tapping beats. Some of the songs could use some fleshing out, but the juanty “Jerk Sandwich” and the Dandy Warhol-esqe-if such a thing is possible-“Down Here” have undeniable charms.
- “R.A.M,” Seattle Weekly
