http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2013/09/23/130923crmu_music_frerejones
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 September 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
When I look at him I feel, I've known people like that. But not when I hear his voice
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Friday, 20 September 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
I would call the Krule record interesting.
― nostormo, Friday, 20 September 2013 15:30 (ten years ago) link
The way his voice is mixed on the record makes me think of Ghostpoet
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Friday, 20 September 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
Whenever I see his name I think of
http://d2oz5j6ef5tbf6.cloudfront.net/movie/large/Krull.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 September 2013 15:34 (ten years ago) link
I think of king tuff which I LOVE
― nostormo, Friday, 20 September 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
Do they still make movies like that?
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Friday, 20 September 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
lol @ sfj disagreeing w/ thread title's premise
His sound isn’t hip or trendy.
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 20 September 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
love it
― the late great, Friday, 20 September 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
he sounds like a depressed tom vek
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 20 September 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link
i was thinking more like a drugged billy bragg
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 20 September 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I don't really see what's so hipster about him - his sound is totally uncool retro and not ironic or whatever
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 20 September 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 20 September 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
hipsters reside in the U.S. iirc
― rip van wanko, Friday, 20 September 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
Isn't hipster music defined by it's hipster fans and necessary the music itself?
― nostormo, Friday, 20 September 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
Not necessary
― nostormo, Friday, 20 September 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
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
― thot police (fadanuf4erybody), Friday, 20 September 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
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
― brio, Friday, 20 September 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
funny voices too
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 20 September 2013 20:01 (ten years ago) link
this record is kind of addicting. been raining a lot lately and it fits my mood to just shuffle around with a hangover
― illegalblues, Friday, 20 September 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
very autumnal
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 20 September 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
So where's this kid from, Lewisham?
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Friday, 20 September 2013 21:32 (ten years ago) link
From the zoo
― nostormo, Friday, 20 September 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
he should just go by ARCHY MARSHALL it's a pretty dope name
― the late great, Thursday, 26 September 2013 05:45 (ten years ago) link
like a drugged Billy Bragg who has been listening to The Streets(Mike Skinner)
North American tour announced btw
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 September 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
thank god for chav parents letting their kids smoke at age 13
― ogmor, Thursday, 26 September 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
he sounds like a depressed tom vek― congratulations (n/a), Friday, September 20, 2013 11:50 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinki was thinking more like a drugged billy bragg― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, September 20, 2013 11:57 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, September 20, 2013 11:57 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
a terrible jim ruiz
― jaymc, Sunday, 15 December 2013 08:01 (ten years ago) link
god i mean i was excited to hear like old-timey jazz chords and stuff but his voice ugh
― jaymc, Sunday, 15 December 2013 08:02 (ten years ago) link
would love to hear the lex weigh in on this
Got tickets for Tuesday in SF!
― Austin, Sunday, 15 December 2013 14:10 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Q6Iu8sTkY
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 18 July 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
The man (or the kid, that clip anyway) just oozes talent.
Easily my favorite music maker right now.
― austinato (Austin), Friday, 18 July 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
New song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYfRRl7z5zE
― austinato (Austin), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
totally forgot about this dude...
new track is great
the unholy alliance of Sonic Youth and The Style Council?
― hackshaw, Saturday, 7 November 2015 04:49 (eight years ago) link
I always thought he was ripping the Postcard bands, but hey.
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 7 November 2015 04:57 (eight years ago) link
I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm probably his biggest fan on this board.
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 7 November 2015 04:58 (eight years ago) link
earlier on but the song above sounds like he's (sorta) figuring out a signature sound
here's hoping for the next album
― hackshaw, Saturday, 7 November 2015 05:00 (eight years ago) link
According to his Facebook, he has new music on the way, but a second full length is still a ways off.
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 7 November 2015 05:01 (eight years ago) link
the first album got totally lost in the shuffle somehow
it was kinda scattershot, but still, some really beautiful songs on there.
― hackshaw, Saturday, 7 November 2015 05:06 (eight years ago) link
It's my so far album of the 2010's. By quite a ways, actually.
Have you seen him live?
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 7 November 2015 05:11 (eight years ago) link
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.
― hackshaw, Saturday, 7 November 2015 05:15 (eight years ago) link
I told him he was my favorite MC when I saw him live and he smiled. It was fun.
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 7 November 2015 05:22 (eight years ago) link
A NEW PLACE 2 DROWN
(holy fucking hell I'm so excited I'm shaking)
― Austin, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Austin, Thursday, 10 December 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 10 December 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Austin, Thursday, 10 December 2015 23:06 (eight years ago) link
need to hear this
― the late great, Saturday, 12 December 2015 06:36 (eight years ago) link
It really does get better the more I play it.
― Austin, Saturday, 12 December 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
THE RETURN OF PIMP SHRIMPhttps://soundcloud.com/thereturnofpimpshrimp/feel-safe-88-just-say-no
Kind of a dark disco thing. Whoooo. . .!
― Austin, Thursday, 25 August 2016 04:13 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Austin, Saturday, 24 September 2016 06:07 (seven years ago) link
and away we go!
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
New live album getting love on Drake’s IG story lol
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 10 September 2021 13:31 (two years ago) link
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.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, 11 September 2021 03:05 (two years ago) link
also why is "little wild" cut off, that's annoying.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, 11 September 2021 03:06 (two years ago) link
a nice place 2 drown????
jfc, i just got back from listening to it while walking. guess the adrenaline's still working.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, 11 September 2021 03:07 (two years ago) link
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.
― I'm ANTIFA and I vote. (Austin), Saturday, 11 June 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
here's one of the new songs: "peripheral" (fyi: reddit link)
it's full bore no wave skronk.
― I'm ANTIFA and I vote. (Austin), Sunday, 12 June 2022 04:13 (one year ago) link
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)
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
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.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Thursday, 6 October 2022 05:32 (one year ago) link
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.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Saturday, 8 October 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
from archy's ig
https://i.redd.it/3k1q0p69qq5a1.jpg
― Oh, Stevie, you are my number one gypsy goddess. (Austin), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
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)
― Oh, Stevie, you are my number one gypsy goddess. (Austin), Friday, 16 December 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
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.😎
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Monday, 2 January 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
hipster shit
― CerebralCaustic, Monday, 2 January 2023 23:48 (one year ago) link
and i love it.
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link
new project with Pretty V + Jadasea called Aqrxvst:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt8hS7FB2G8
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 5 January 2023 04:06 (one year ago) link
yeah, listened to that the other day and thought it was very meh. ymmv.
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Thursday, 5 January 2023 04:40 (one year ago) link
yeah it sucks
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 5 January 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
i like when archy does that really druggy lofi strummy thing, but none of his mates can do it at all. oh well.
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Thursday, 5 January 2023 15:26 (one year ago) link
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'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Friday, 6 January 2023 16:11 (one year ago) link
i never posted "ps.......x" in here??!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ5ms8LF45A
ooz era outtake.
― i'd rather do music and chill tf out (Austin), Monday, 9 January 2023 01:33 (one year ago) link
(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.
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Friday, 19 May 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link
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.
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Sunday, 28 May 2023 01:00 (one year ago) link
Haha - "2AM Factory Benelux kind of vibe" - feel like i can hear the songs in my head without clicking.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 08:18 (one year ago) link
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
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 19:29 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Friday, 9 June 2023 15:20 (eleven months ago) link
and yeah- "our vacuum" is probably my favorite thing initially. he's still very much the best ever.
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Friday, 9 June 2023 15:24 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Saturday, 10 June 2023 05:22 (eleven months ago) link
"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.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Sunday, 10 December 2023 04:25 (five months ago) link
first thing I've heard by him, I like it. "Flimsier" is great.
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Sunday, 10 December 2023 15:38 (five months ago) link
THE RETURN OF PIMP SHRIMPhttps://soundcloud.com/thereturnofpimpshrimp/feel-safe-88-just-say-noKind of a dark disco thing. Whoooo. . .!― Austin, Wednesday, August 24, 2016 9:13 PM
― 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.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Sunday, 14 January 2024 23:10 (four months ago) link
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.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 14 March 2024 00:24 (two months ago) link
/\ /\ /\ /\ /\on repeat for the past 30 minutes
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 14 March 2024 00:40 (two months ago) link
had to move along, but yeah: this is a big one. def approved for all audiences.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 14 March 2024 00:55 (two months ago) link
I don't usually love this hipster shit but... this is great
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 14 March 2024 07:41 (two months ago) link
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)
― Funding Hostile (Craig D.), Thursday, 14 March 2024 12:20 (two months ago) link