King Krule - i love this hipster shit

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