King Krule - i love this hipster shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRzlbh4or3c

ZOO KID

lol remember this garbage

'Octopus' is pretty spectacular but a cursory browse of his stuff on itunes seem to indicate it is not very representative of his stuff - anyone?

FP'd London for this

http://www.npr.org/2013/08/18/210187927/first-listen-king-krule-6-feet-beneath-the-moon

i tend to agree with the guy who wrote on rateyourmsusic, that although the record is very good, it's over produced.
maybe trying a bit too hard, and somewhat pretentious as a result.

Can't yet put my finger on what exactly it is but the guy definitely has got something

http://cdn.mm-health.com/bookimages/14/4720.1.png

This wouldn't be the worst thing a cynic could expect to win a Mercury but it's far too long and samey.

these lyrics are hilarious

i am a fan of this felo, have not heard album yet. i see 'rock bottom' is not on it, which i think is my favourite to this point.

Took me a while but now I love this. Hipster shot

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2013/09/23/130923crmu_music_frerejones

When I look at him I feel, I've known people like that. But not when I hear his voice

I would call the Krule record interesting.

The way his voice is mixed on the record makes me think of Ghostpoet

Whenever I see his name I think of

http://d2oz5j6ef5tbf6.cloudfront.net/movie/large/Krull.jpg

I think of king tuff which I LOVE

Do they still make movies like that?

lol @ sfj disagreeing w/ thread title's premise

His sound isn’t hip or trendy.

love it

he sounds like a depressed tom vek

i was thinking more like a drugged billy bragg

Yeah I don't really see what's so hipster about him - his sound is totally uncool retro and not ironic or whatever

most "hip or trendy" music made today sounds like it was made entirely on a laptop in someone's room, this sounds like it was made on a laptop in someone's room but with some jazz guitar chords on top.

hipsters reside in the U.S. iirc

Isn't hipster music defined by it's hipster fans and necessary the music itself?

Not necessary

said something on twitter last night about how I can't unhear him as a brain-damaged Billy Bragg and god it's just all encompassing. I like this record though

not sure where Jones gets the "young British Tom Waits" thing from - I guess Tom Waits is short-hand for singer-songwriter who likes jazz but doesn't strictly speaking play it? seems like a stretch

funny voices too

this record is kind of addicting. been raining a lot lately and it fits my mood to just shuffle around with a hangover

very autumnal

So where's this kid from, Lewisham?

From the zoo

he should just go by ARCHY MARSHALL it's a pretty dope name

like a drugged Billy Bragg who has been listening to The Streets(Mike Skinner)

North American tour announced btw

thank god for chav parents letting their kids smoke at age 13

he sounds like a depressed tom vek

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i was thinking more like a drugged billy bragg

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a terrible jim ruiz

god i mean i was excited to hear like old-timey jazz chords and stuff but his voice ugh

would love to hear the lex weigh in on this

Got tickets for Tuesday in SF!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Q6Iu8sTkY

The man (or the kid, that clip anyway) just oozes talent.

Easily my favorite music maker right now.

New song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYfRRl7z5zE

totally forgot about this dude...

new track is great

the unholy alliance of Sonic Youth and The Style Council?

I always thought he was ripping the Postcard bands, but hey.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm probably his biggest fan on this board.

earlier on but the song above sounds like he's (sorta) figuring out a signature sound

here's hoping for the next album

According to his Facebook, he has new music on the way, but a second full length is still a ways off.

the first album got totally lost in the shuffle somehow

it was kinda scattershot, but still, some really beautiful songs on there.

It's my so far album of the 2010's. By quite a ways, actually.

Have you seen him live?

not yet.. have always wanted too.

i used to love that collection of Zoo Kid demos with the version of "Lizard State" that had the breakbeats on it.

I told him he was my favorite MC when I saw him live and he smiled. It was fun.

A NEW PLACE 2 DROWN

(holy fucking hell I'm so excited I'm shaking)

So, this is more of beats and rhymes kind of project, rather than full fledged songs. Can't say I'm disappointed, but whoa, this is a lot to process.

this is england 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JawgV3apIeM

expected to hate it, but ended up loving the obvious brotherly love that drives them both.

No guitar at all on this = kind of a letdown

And it does feel like one of the things he used to just put up on his DJ JD Sports Soundcloud page.

But still, I've been playing nonstop all day. Something to be said for that, I suppose.

need to hear this

It really does get better the more I play it.

THE RETURN OF PIMP SHRIMP
https://soundcloud.com/thereturnofpimpshrimp/feel-safe-88-just-say-no

Kind of a dark disco thing. Whoooo. . .!

A New Place 2 Drown has finally been released on vinyl: http://xlrecordings.com/buy/archymarshall-anewplace2drown

UK only for now, but Amoeba is stocking it.

'Czech One'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2HRzIyyXvU

Sounds like a New Place 2 Drown part two.

Still love it.

So, after a few days and several dozen listens later, I have to say that this is both a totally genius and equally as confusing lead single.

It seems like a kind of mixture of 'The Noose of Jah City' and 'Cementality' — that kind of ultra pretty Fender Rhodes vamp sort of thing. But, something else completely different in the mix, as well. It's almost sparse to a confrontational degree. It has shades of things he's done previously in it, but I can't really, truly liken it directly to them. It was actually kind of jarring on first listen, because of how subdued it is. I'm just taking it face value presently, but if I were to go to that next step of assessment, I would say that, when 'Easy Easy' was released as the lead single to the first album four years ago, it was a fantastic, victorious moment for him. But, musically speaking, it was not in the least bit unexpected. 'Czech One', on the other hand, I can honestly say I did not see coming at all. So, in terms of just doing something completely different, this is another successful moment for him.

However, considering he just played Prima Vera Sound a few months ago and aired out several new songs, yet 'Czech One' was not among them, makes me think that this new record is going to be something of a challenge. A challenge that I wholly welcome, especially if the results are as fruitful as 'Czech One.'

The album's...okay. I guess.

It's my most anticipated release of the year. So, I'm definitely looking forward.

The OOZ, out 13 October on XL and True Panther
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/cdn.beggars.com/xlrecordings/site/images/products/157/images/kk-pinth.jpg
1. Biscuit Town
2. The Locomotive
3. Dum Surfer
4. Slush Puppy
5. Bermondsey Bosom (Left)
6. Logos
7. Sublunary
8. Lonely Blue
9. Cadet Limbo
10. Emergency Blimp
11. Czech One
12. (A Slide In) New Drugs
13. Vidual
14. Bermondsey Bosom (Right)
15. Half Man Half Shark
16. The Cadet Leaps
17. The Ooz
18. Midnight 01(Deep Sea Diver)
19. La Lune

'Dum Surfer' hit YouTube this morning and it's a dark, hazy wash of a song. If 'Czech One' was super sparse, 'Dum Surfer' is the opposite, filling every corner and darkened space with reverb and delay washes.

And, holy hell, NINETEEN songs in the tracklist?!

Just going off what I've seen and heard so far, this album is going to be absolutely huge in sound and ambition.

i haven't heard anything else, but dum surfer rules.

aiming this post for 15 years from now, but...

these assholes can play for now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5-f1Bnltu8

egh, it's just a really constrained song in some ways, despite sounding like it's bleeding out. i bet a lot of king krule sounds like this but i just haven't given it a shot. but if nothing else, l love this one, and the things that make it good make me think there's a lot more underneath the ret of his music./ newbie herer

I liked the first LP but this is something else. Awesome

i wasn't the biggest fan of the first LP (apart from Easy Easy) but this guy was so young and is clearly so talented that I figured better things were coming. Sounds like they've come.

i bet a lot of king krule sounds like this

No, actually. I think that's why I'm so taken with this new material. In the past, when he put out new music, it felt like an addition on the foundation he had established previously.

This new material, though. . . just seems to have come from out of nowhere. There are still touchstones of his major influences —namely hyper literate new wave (Josef K, Aztec Camera, etc.) and 60s era post-bop jazz— but, just going on these two new songs, he's really taken it in another direction entirely.

i thought czech one was fine but yeah, this one is fucking excellent and really enthralling sounding to me. so many layers man.

seems like he got really into the beats/hip-hop thing for awhile (that marshall album) and now that he's back to king krule it's like a combination of the two styles. he talks in that new pitchfork thing about hanging out with rappers too much and then going "wait, i forgot i play guitar" or something like that. haha.

Nah, pretty big hip hop influence on 6 Feet Beneath the Moon. I mean, 'Shades of Grey' and 'A Neptune Estate' were basically MPC beats. With live horns and guitar on it and then the remix had actual rappers on it in the case of 'Neptune Estate.' And he's always had his DJ JD Sports Soundcloud where he posts random beats. And then the Sub Luna City album as well.

def an influence from the start but specifically on the archy album and his random collabs. these feel more official and not just like some random project, cause it's under the krule name.

I think that's always been where the big connection to his music for me stems from. Even though there's practically a generation and a half between my age and his, we've both had similar musical journeys as kind of hip hop junkies that just got really into Bill Evans and new wave.

Not that I'm anywhere near as talented as he is; or even talented at all. Just totally get where he's coming from.

not sure i could've said what i wanted out of another king krule record but turns out dum surfer is exactly it

this is also p dece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1kzMFnFSh0

I don't know if it's just me or not but I'm kinda surprised at the intensity of the positive reactions here. I gave it an ear as mentioned and...I don't know if 'forced' is the right term but it sure really seems like it makes an effort to demonstrate how much of an effort is being made. Like the fact it's being tried is more important than actually sinking in as a good listen.

they said the same thing about animal collective's 'centipede hz', and is there a single ilm poster today who wouldn't gladly place that classic in their top 700 albums of 2012?

lol.. haven't listened to this yet, most of his albums only have one or two songs that really stick with me so if this has that i'll be happy

I don't know if it's just me or not but I'm kinda surprised at the intensity of the positive reactions here. I gave it an ear as mentioned and...I don't know if 'forced' is the right term but it sure really seems like it makes an effort to demonstrate how much of an effort is being made. Like the fact it's being tried is more important than actually sinking in as a good listen.

Nah, his band is just that tight.

That...wasn't my impression. (It wasn't even a question of whether or not they were tight, more like 'why is this entire experience vaguely irritating in a way I can't put my finger on.')

To each their own, I guess.. Don't see this as being particularly showoff-y or forced. Just a nasty/tight grinding roadhouse beat.

def not show-off-y. at least not anymore than his previous stuff. he has his sound figured out a bit better (which i consider distinctive) and is trying to smooth out the fragments.

9.0 on pitchfork

that's my boy

Should have my copy in hand tomorrow. Excited.

66 minutes are you kidding me

it is pretty fucking long. i'm finishing up my first listen and there's just so MUCH there that it's hard to wrap my head around. i like it a lot, though.

more of a 9.4 than 9.0 imo

This is great

It sounds to me at times a lot like Slim Twig/US Girls

Trying to figure out what bugs me about this and i realized it's the latent Tom waits vibes

Kinda trying too hard

I'm loving "Emergency Blimp" from this album, especially after the first chord change when I realize it's actually not 1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins.

Tom Waits for sure. Or is it slow Amy Winehouse?

this record is A+ and i don't fuck w/tom waits

bag otm

y’all are trying too hard to hate

So this finally fucking got delivered today. No idea why it took so long.

For as much as I loved 6 Feet Beneath the Moon and heralded it as something truly new and unique, it only feels a lot less so after hearing the OOZ. Very much a straightforward approach to making music. Everything about the OOZ, on the other hand, feels really carefully considered, executed, and fully realized.

Also, 6 Feet Beneath the Moon very much had an introspectively depressive vibe to it, with an added undertone of anger. The OOZ, again in contrast, is no less inwardly down, but it's a lot more apathetic about its depression. 6 Feet Beneath the Moon's songs felt like they were all written under the influence of marijuana, but then performed and recorded after the high had worn off and the original intent was sharpened up quite a bit. The OOZ feels a lot more. . . I don't know, alcoholic? And a lot more blatant musical nods to jazz, obviously. It's much more of a smokey, aqueous vibe.

Too early to pick any highlights just yet, but, needless to say, this is easily my top pick for the year.

Third listen now and, I have to say, that last ten or twelve minutes of the album (basically the last three songs) are some of the darkest, dreariest, yet somehow rewarding and cathartic things he's done. It's definitely the most lucid the album gets; but even using the word "lucid" is an overstatement in regards to this record.

Pretty much sums up what I said previously, as far as the OOZ being all about the execution and presentation of the songs. Most obviously on 'La Lune', which is actually a very old song and dates from around the time of 6 Feet Beneath the Moon. Here's the original recording of it. Pretty easy to do a side by side between the two recordings for an obvious "before and after" comparison.

And, after taking it in more fully, I now would pretty much consider A New Place 2 Drown his actual second album. The lineage from 6 Feet Beneath the Moon and the OOZ becomes a lot less jarring —and just just makes a hell of a lot more sense— that way.

So, like with everything he's done, the words have started to sink in and resonate on levels I can't even articulate.

This album is so bleak. Where 6 Feet Beneath the Moon had a kind of preoccupation with things coming to an end —whether it was a relationship, an experience, or even life itself— there was at least a grounding in the fact that his existence was still intact presently. On songs like 'The Krockadile' or even 'Out Getting Ribs', despite a very cynical worldview, there was ultimately a release of tension when this realization hit.

From 'Out Getting Ribs':
"I've been broken down / So much has lost it now / I just stop and say / Girl, don’t you worry 'bout a thing."

'The Krockadile':
"My urge to purge, so bold / I need the warmth of a brother to hold / I need the warmth of your mother to hold me down."

But, the OOZ is just. . . too distracted by the emotive destruction to even stop for a deep breath. It's like, if 6 Feet Beneath the Moon had a suicidal attitude, it ultimately found solace in the ability to continue, despite the damage that had occurred. The OOZ is nearly like speculation of what lies on the other side. Very appropriate in this respect that the band was made up to resemble zombies in the video clip for 'Dum Surfer' because that's essentially what this feels like: a laborious trudge through the sheer hopelessness of what we are all destined to encounter, but which none of us know what to expect from. As Archy continues to push the plough through his expectations of death, he seems to have no fear of it, despite his impression of it being nothing but a torturous solitude in which self-reflection is just one unending negative critique.

this album is a lot.

I mean, even just the opening lines of the album are so resonating for me:

"We made a pact, but now I think it's over. . . I think we might be bipolar. I think she thinks I'm bipolar."

And that's indicative of the whole album: it just has this sense to it of randomly blurting out these things that have gone horribly wrong. Where, in the past, he seemed to infer some sort of resolution or deescalation, the OOZ simply states the bad news and quickly moves on to the next (also presumably negative) subject, offering no silver lining, or even hinting at a respite in the downpour.

i've never seen king krule live. does he bring along his zombie garage band?

everyone in the dum surfer video looks like they've been robotripping for 75 minutes, it's fantastic

xp a lot ... of awesome

for real though, i haven't given it a second listen because i haven't been able to commit the time

also yes, it's dark. and i've kind of been needing musical pick-me-ups right now.

i love how bleak it is. but that there's still that kinda "wandering" element to it, getting lost in the city or in your head, feeling awful and lost and hurt and knowing it won't change but still going along. incredibly rich album.

second listen even better than the first ... so dope

also i will say, not only with the mesh of so many disparate sounds shot thru this big wide lens but thematically, the whole experience feels a little zeitgeist-y. been awhile since i've had that with an album... it's my personal soundtrack at the moment.

one of the best around rn

I honestly don't remember what his other stuff sounded like, but this sounds like ... Tricky? I dunno, it's cool, though.

Tricky meets later Specials?

sounds like Dirty Beaches

i've been thinking about the tricky comparison myself

i think the dirty beaches comparison is reductive ... there is a lot of sparse reverb-y music you could compare king krule to, but imo that doesn't really get at what makes "the ooz" special

I don't like this music and am now exiting the thread

really? i think dirty beaches are pretty good, especially "badlands"

i think this album suggest some kind of relationship between indie rock and underground hip-hop/uk garage influences. tricky comparison is accurate, as well as j dilla. dirty beaches too (though without a lot of the nostalgia pandering)

hey it's a really unique combo in my opinion

the beats/production are incredibly fucking good, the new wave and punk influences work in that context even if they shouldn't, there's a great emotional bent to the lyrics and the phrasing. all of it works and has me smitten. if this is only his second album just imagine where it could go from there

i think this album suggest some kind of relationship between indie rock and underground hip-hop/uk garage influences.

That was a lot more prominent on 6 Feet Beneath the Moon and his earlier stuff, if you ask me. The OOZ is much more unique.

the archy marshall album was definitely a primer for this new stuff. all of that slithery down-tuned ambience

i like that an album that has such a nihilistic, lethargic approach to life also has these two or three songs (vidual, emergency blimp, half man half shark etc) that are all shaked up and ready for anything.

guess it might be bi-polar

this is very good. one of those records that sort of pushes the listener away, but well worth the effort to work past that resistance. would be pretty easy to cut out some of the deliberate chaff and a weaker track or two to make this a tight, arresting album but that is v clearly not the point.

what's with the Always Sunny theme music at the end of "Midnight 01 (Deep Sea Diver)"?

anyway, this album has really grown on me--I needed to listen while driving at night for the idea to really click

"Vidual" is so Rain Dogs that it hurts, I love it

playing my town on 4/20, hope it doesn't sell out

5/5

whoops wrong thread

I said it upthread in my initial thoughts on the album when it was new, but I will reassert: the last fifteen or so minutes of the OOZ is just screamingly emotive and cathartic. Besides being some of the most gorgeous sounds he's yet created, it also hits me lyrically as possibly his most resonant work to date. I mean, it hits hard. I almost have a difficult time with it. It's fantastic music and brilliantly played. It's just like. . . too easy to relate to for me. To the point where it's uncomfortable. Like, I want to put on a record and escape from the dumb and troublesome shit in my brain, not hear it reflected back at me. All through my life as a music fan, I've never actually reached a point where I actively question whether or not I disliked music because of how heavily it resonates with me. Until now. I mean, I've digested plenty of "challenging" music, but nothing like this.

Obviously, best ever.

http://oozdelalune.com/

i enjoyed that, but i think it really underlines how subtly great his production is. the live performances actually stay pretty close to the recorded ones. but somehow the weight and the grief behind it all comes through much more clearly on the recording, and i'm not even sure why (i attribute it to the mystery bonus "production" quality, i guess).

I actually thought the performances of some of the songs ('Dum Surfer' and 'Deep Sea Diver' most notably) were way more raw and passionate than on the record.

After I saw him tour 6 Feet Beneath the Moon, I was pretty adamant that they needed to release a live album, but this just makes me even more certain that it needs to happen.

One issue I have with it though is all the "moon" and "lunar" references, but no performance of 'La Lune'! Teasing bastards!

i’m gonna re-iterate pic.twitter.com/RgN1JeszB1

— dj stolen valor (@wipeyadocsoff) January 5, 2018

people made fun of Tom Waits' voice too, it'll happen.

then again, Tom Waits kinda looks like he should have that kind a voice. archy...doesn't

*kind of

this kid is brilliant

i'm late to the party bc i don't follow releases too closely. but the OOZ is a great album

Honestly, I'm still waiting for that live album.

I think he could pull off one of those "in transition" live albums where he plays a good selection of live staples ('Rock Bottom', 'The Noose of Jah City', 'Easy Easy', 'Baby Blue', 'Out Getting Ribs', 'A Lizard State'), OOZ standouts ('Dum Surfer', 'La Lune', 'The Ooz', 'Half Man Half Shark'), a few deep cuts ('Has this Hit?', 'Little Wild', 'Octopus'), and a couple new songs as yet unrecorded (there was a song he played —as near as I can tell— once live back in 2014 that had the unofficial title 'Blood Stained Sheets').

Also, it's just occurred to me right now that the solo Archy takes on 'Dum Surfer' is incredibly good. I'm almost never a "solos" guy when it comes to rock guitar, but good god, that's a striking turn he takes. It's like Jerry Garcia meets Siouxsie and the Banshees / Glove-era Robert Smith.

is there a good solo performance you can link to? for some reason i'm having trouble finding anything, at least on youtube

Network was down all day at work yesterday. In an office that depends on network connectivity for computers and phones, that meant there was a lot of downtime.

I recreated the cover of the OOZ with highlighters.

https://i.imgur.com/s5P5Zu4.jpg

That's excellent!

agree

Thanks. The products of boredom are sometimes fruitful after all.

Here's Archy and friends on KCRW from right around the time the OOZ was brand new: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KFTOh10H9Uet6a6p0sj_GdhEPg7DE6QX

new record, MAN ALIVE! is out 21 february on xl.

tracklist:

CELLULAR
SUPERMARCHÉ
STONED AGAIN
COMET FACE
THE DREAM
PERFECTO MISERABLE
ALONE, OMEN 3
SLINKY
AIRPORT ANTENATAL AIRPLANE
(DON’T LET THE DRAGON)DRAAG ON
THEME FOR THE CROSS
UNDERCLASS
ENERGY FLEETS
PLEASE COMPLETE THEE

p exciting.

!!!

there was also this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxPNprgqR48

which includes alternate versions of (i'm assuming) some of the new songs.

official announcement this morning. really looking forward to this one, obviously.

the new song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6CmLBKYrh8

sounds a lot like the ooz.

couple things:

the song as it appears in the video feels like it's maybe not the whole thing proper.

it sounds like a slowed down finished version of the old song he played once live, 'blood stained sheets' (unofficial title).

checked the new album out today, like the atmosphere a lot, even though the music doesn't have the immediacy or stylistic diversity of the ooz. it's a bit low-key--it'll probably take a while for the whole thing to sink in.

my fav so far is the beautiful and atonal 'theme from the cross.'

good isolation music d(-_-)b

i was thinking the opposite today

i dunno i like creeping on myself. the new one has a lot of really pretty moments

I think this is the first King Krule album that works all the way through for me.

i was initially not very enamoured with it, but at this point, i'd say it's tied with 6 feet beneath the moon as my favorite thing he's ever done.

was supposed to see him in la earlier this month. oh well.

not much else to say about the new one, other than its' simultaneous streamlining and synthesizing of his jazz and new wave influences is more impressive than ever.

Keeps getting better and better. Art punk jazz trip hop.

'comet face' music video is being kept on unlisted right now, but is still available to view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHpYo0xptb0

definitely has an 'early mtv' vibe to it. maybe my favorite song off man alive! f`kin rad.

welp, that didn't stay up very long!

anyway, have a wholesome king krule meme:
https://i.redd.it/s7htgddmh1f51.jpg

archy posted a formal announcement for the "comet face" video on his instagram stories this morning. i guess it's going officially live on the eleventh. weird that they had it available to view temporarily.

and here `tis. . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze6BqAtlqTg

cool video! weird blend of victorian and suburban mystery and intensity

https://kingkrule.bandcamp.com/

a cover of 'imagine' he just posted. it's very ooz-y. meh.

have i never posted archy's metronomy remix in here? it's one of my favorite things he's ever done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-FwVcdqCx4

cool john baldessari (i think?) cover art

archy confirmed on instagram a few days ago that they will be releasing a live album. he said it's been mastered and now they just need to get the logistics ball rolling for release. no other info yet.

i'm very excited by this news.

and away we go!

New live album getting love on Drake’s IG story lol

album is really good —if you already know you like the band. i am amused in a silly way by the arrangements on some of the songs and disappointed in the lack of material from the first album, but also completely satisfied —even as fan who has been wanting an _official_ live recording since a nice place 2 drown. i love it, but it won't win any new fans.

also why is "little wild" cut off, that's annoying.

a nice place 2 drown????

jfc, i just got back from listening to it while walking. guess the adrenaline's still working.

they played primavera sound spain a week back and there was a debut of some new material. only audience recordings around so far (songs sound okay-ish?). if he's following a similar rollout to the ooz, there should be a new studio record coming before the year is out.

they were supposed to play vilnius 8 festival, cancelled last minute "for personal reasons", but made it to primavera portugal last night so idk what's going on. still scheduled to play primavera los angeles in september. be interested to see what happens.

here's one of the new songs: "peripheral" (fyi: reddit link)

it's full bore no wave skronk.

no updates, tho the boys are set to play primavera los angeles in a few days. gonna be fun to see what they get up to.

really just wanted to post "octopus" because it is his best song and it's a goddamn shame that it's been relegated to oop b-side purgatory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmcaD9t61XE

"octopus" (2012)

archy played as the "special guest" of his brother's band at a small london venue last night and the clips are just him singing/playing guitar and galgo (his saxman) accompanying under a blue light. everything sounds incredible.

here's a new song from the other night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqd2h8ZzLs

no title announced. folks over on r/kingkrule have named it "our vacuum."

between this and other new material that's been popping up in the festival sets, i'm hoping for a new album very soon.

from archy's ig

https://i.redd.it/3k1q0p69qq5a1.jpg

no idea what the studio versions of the new material will sound like. really excited whatever the case, but i'm lowkey hoping he goes a bit back to that more hiphop sound from the first album. i've been revisiting this from his "archy marshall" album a new place 2 drown and it's an absolute bop. he can write effortless pop hooks when he wants to. and those are some nicely bubblin keys you got there, friend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTHtg0QpQXo

"ammi ammi" feat. jamie isaac (2015)

don't know how or why, but the full soundtrack to the hey world! short film has showed up on spotify as one long track. basically man alive! demos. cool.😎

hipster shit

and i love it.

new project with Pretty V + Jadasea called Aqrxvst:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt8hS7FB2G8

yeah, listened to that the other day and thought it was very meh. ymmv.

yeah it sucks

i like when archy does that really druggy lofi strummy thing, but none of his mates can do it at all. oh well.

i noticed that someone nommed a nilüfer yanya track in the 22 poll -and i don't want to be a negative guy in this thread- so that reminded that archy did a remix for yanya's track "midnight sun" a couple months back. it's really ethereal and nice-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgT_arLf1aI

not life changing, but a cool remix.

i never posted "ps.......x" in here??!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ5ms8LF45A

ooz era outtake.

(and one of his best)

been hesitant to say anything about the forthcoming material. i think i may have spoiled myself on live clips. couple of studio recordings are out by now:

"seaforth"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfrbeCFQ65w

"if only it was warmth"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QTrYZsSmkg

idk. maybe wrong headspace to process this sort of thing. it certainly sounds like him, but it has that dreaded "new parenthood" vibe to it. just never been a fan. i like the vintage r.e.m. style jangle on "seaforth" even if it does feel like king krule lite -- but he's become too self-aware: "we sit and watch and watch the planet dyin up above. we sit and smile without concern" <-well maybe i should fuck off and leave ya'll alone then? "if only was warmth" seems to find archy scolding himself for not being more like the narrator in "seaforth": "i'm running out of space for your mistakes. i'm so disappointed in you." sigh. hopefully the album has a more fleshed out story arch. in any case, at least he's not strayed too far from the lounge punk chords and dreamy beats.

the album is called space heavy and is out 9 june. i'm optimistic, but with reservations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKBiBCK2UKc

he released a bunch of one-sided flexi discs on the quick tour earlier this year. that's all of them. definitely in that 2am factory benelux kind of vibe. overall not bad + i really like "achtung!" presumably outtakes from the space heavy sessions.

Haha - "2AM Factory Benelux kind of vibe" - feel like i can hear the songs in my head without clicking.

okay, well that video didn't last long! and i was wrong - the proper version of "flimsier" hit streaming today and it's pretty close to the flexi disc recording. full album on friday. hoping he's holding his cards close to his chest because all three of the pre-release songs are okay at best.

here's "flimsier"--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A712DL56J9Q

first listen now. i'm fucking wrecked mentally anyway, but this is a lot. he's going full bore into the paranoid no wave vibes, but filtered through that really moody bill evans lens where you get things like the transition from "empty stomach cadet / flimsy" (which is honestly maybe the prettiest thing he's ever done) into "hamburgerphobia" (james chance without any of the shrieking). the songs are short, but heavily layered. i feel like everything here could have one of those old school "extended 12" mix" treatments and be just as good at 7 or 8 minutes.

it's 15 songs in 45 minutes. jfc. definitely some great stuff, but this is a lot to sort.

and yeah- "our vacuum" is probably my favorite thing initially. he's still very much the best ever.

y'know what? idc if it makes me sound like a hipster doofus, i'm just gonna say it: a lot of this new record sounds like slovenly. not the two guitars thing, but just the overall idea of the music - that is: jazzy punk/punky jazz that is constantly trying to reconcile the inherent madness of existing in a dense population, a metropolitan circus.

still not wild about the pre-release songs -and initial gut reaction says it's his "worst" yet- but this is pretty fucking good.

"this music makes me not like you."

so anyway, fuck this album. 3 mics. worst yet. not even a song on here i'd put on my year-end mixtape. best thing about it was the cover art. oh well.

first thing I've heard by him, I like it. "Flimsier" is great.

THE RETURN OF PIMP SHRIMP
https://soundcloud.com/thereturnofpimpshrimp/feel-safe-88-just-say-no

Kind of a dark disco thing. Whoooo. . .!

― Austin, Wednesday, August 24, 2016 9:13 PM

2024 revisit--

fucking hell. the ooz was so good it completely obscured this. after the disappointment of space heavy it sounds godlike. holy smokes.

newest collab with mount kimbie is called ' empty and silent ' + it fulfills my demented mind's deepest darkest fantasies of aztec camera's 'knife' going full krautrock. it's ... (jack black in high fidelity sigh) ... really fucking good. the best thing from either camp in many years. long may he reign.

/\ /\ /\ /\ /\
on repeat for the past 30 minutes

had to move along, but yeah: this is a big one. def approved for all audiences.

I don't usually love this hipster shit but... this is great

Broken Marshall Scene (I need to give this a fuller/more relaxed listen tbh--my fave Kimbie/Krule collab continues to be "You Took Your Time" off Cold Spring Fault Less Youth by quite a wide margin fwiw)