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
'Czech One'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2HRzIyyXvU
Sounds like a New Place 2 Drown part two.
Still love it.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
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.'
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Sunday, 27 August 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
The album's...okay. I guess.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 27 August 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
It's my most anticipated release of the year. So, I'm definitely looking forward.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Sunday, 27 August 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
The OOZ, out 13 October on XL and True Pantherhttps://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/cdn.beggars.com/xlrecordings/site/images/products/157/images/kk-pinth.jpg1. Biscuit Town2. The Locomotive3. Dum Surfer4. Slush Puppy5. Bermondsey Bosom (Left)6. Logos7. Sublunary8. Lonely Blue9. Cadet Limbo10. Emergency Blimp11. Czech One12. (A Slide In) New Drugs13. Vidual14. Bermondsey Bosom (Right)15. Half Man Half Shark16. The Cadet Leaps17. The Ooz18. 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.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
i haven't heard anything else, but dum surfer rules.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 September 2017 07:21 (six years ago) link
aiming this post for 15 years from now, but...
these assholes can play for now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5-f1Bnltu8
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 September 2017 07:23 (six years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 14 September 2017 07:29 (six years ago) link
I liked the first LP but this is something else. Awesome
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 14 September 2017 08:41 (six years ago) link
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.
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
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.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Thursday, 14 September 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link
i thought czech one was fine but yeah, this one is fucking excellent and really enthralling sounding to me. so many layers man.
― hackshaw, Thursday, 14 September 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
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.
― hackshaw, Thursday, 14 September 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
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.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Thursday, 14 September 2017 23:48 (six years ago) link
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.
― hackshaw, Thursday, 14 September 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
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.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Friday, 15 September 2017 00:59 (six years ago) link
Not that I'm anywhere near as talented as he is; or even talented at all. Just totally get where he's coming from.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Friday, 15 September 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link
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
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 02:28 (six years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 04:25 (six years ago) link
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
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 04:39 (six years ago) link
Nah, his band is just that tight.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 05:31 (six years ago) link
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.')
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 11:34 (six years ago) link
To each their own, I guess.. Don't see this as being particularly showoff-y or forced. Just a nasty/tight grinding roadhouse beat.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
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.
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
9.0 on pitchfork
that's my boy
― the late great, Friday, 13 October 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link
Should have my copy in hand tomorrow. Excited.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Friday, 13 October 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
66 minutes are you kidding me
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 13 October 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 13 October 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
more of a 9.4 than 9.0 imo
― the late great, Monday, 16 October 2017 01:46 (six years ago) link
This is great
It sounds to me at times a lot like Slim Twig/US Girls
― fgti, Monday, 16 October 2017 03:26 (six years ago) link
Trying to figure out what bugs me about this and i realized it's the latent Tom waits vibes
― pre millennial tension (uptown churl), Monday, 16 October 2017 15:12 (six years 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