Call the cacophonic rattle of MOO a return to form, if you like. Kyle Thomas, the rock preservationist known as King Tuff , would call it the same. As he writes in the album’s quasi-liner notes: “after years of confusion I felt like myself again. MOO made the conclusion that I was an elf again.” Perhaps an odd turn of phrase for somebody who sounded positively besotted with the elvin Marc Bolan on his 2023 release Smalltown Stardust . Yet the fact remains: MOO finds Thomas getting back to where he once belonged, capturing a glorious noise at home on his eight-track. That’s how he made his blissfully fuzzed-out early records, albums that pushed him to the vanguard of the scuzzy garage-punk revivalists. When he left his native Vermont for the cinematic vistas of Los Angeles, he didn’t renounce those songs’ monumental crunch so much as built upon them. Discovering literal and metaphorical sunshine on the West Coast, King Tuff broadened his palette with a pair of records built on the softer side of psych.…