King Krule - i love this hipster shit

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.

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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)