King Krule - i love this hipster shit

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.

also why is "little wild" cut off, that's annoying.

a nice place 2 drown????

jfc, i just got back from listening to it while walking. guess the adrenaline's still working.

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.

here's one of the new songs: "peripheral" (fyi: reddit link)

it's full bore no wave skronk.

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)

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.

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.

from archy's ig

https://i.redd.it/3k1q0p69qq5a1.jpg

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)

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.😎

hipster shit

and i love it.

new project with Pretty V + Jadasea called Aqrxvst:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt8hS7FB2G8

yeah, listened to that the other day and thought it was very meh. ymmv.

yeah it sucks

i like when archy does that really druggy lofi strummy thing, but none of his mates can do it at all. oh well.

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 never posted "ps.......x" in here??!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ5ms8LF45A

ooz era outtake.

(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.

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)