Hull’s garage-psych outfit The Velvet Tuxedo have released “Buzz The Scuzz,” a blistering new single recorded at Magic Garden Studios with producer Gavin Monaghan (Editors, The Sherlocks, Ocean Colour Scene, The Twang). The track opens with an eastern tambura drone and a swirling reversed-guitar line before the full riff tears through the speakers, driven by pounding drums, snarling vocals, and a valve-driven riff built to ignite a riot. It channels the wild electricity of The Who, the proto-punk bite of MC5, and the acid-drenched swirl of The Seeds, The Pretty Things, and 13th Floor Elevators, dragging all of it into the present with zero apology.
The phrase “Buzz The Scuzz” is the band’s own invention, a rallying cry that sums up their ethos: reject the plan, ditch the script, dig the fuzz, and follow your own road. Frontman Will Reid puts it directly: “Our drop-out anthem, two fingers up to conformity. It starts with that hypnotic drone and then erupts into something driving and defiant. It’s about breaking free from the conveyor-belt life we’re sold and choosing your own path really.” Listeners are already latching onto it as one of the most viscerally satisfying garage-psych singles to come out of the UK underground in recent memory.
The Velvet Tuxedo fuse 1960s Freakbeat, Garage, Psych, and R&B into a sound steeped in nostalgia but free from pastiche. Their reputation is built on explosive, high-octane live shows known for unpredictability, rawness, and a guitar-driven attack that hits with real ferocity. “Buzz The Scuzz” plants a flag for a band rooted in the spirit of ’68 and fully committed to pushing that energy into the present.