King Krule - i love this hipster shit

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!

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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