King Krule - i love this hipster shit

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

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, September 20, 2013 11:50 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i 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

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.')

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)