King Krule - i love this hipster shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRzlbh4or3c

ZOO KID

lol remember this garbage

'Octopus' is pretty spectacular but a cursory browse of his stuff on itunes seem to indicate it is not very representative of his stuff - anyone?

FP'd London for this

http://www.npr.org/2013/08/18/210187927/first-listen-king-krule-6-feet-beneath-the-moon

i tend to agree with the guy who wrote on rateyourmsusic, that although the record is very good, it's over produced.
maybe trying a bit too hard, and somewhat pretentious as a result.

Can't yet put my finger on what exactly it is but the guy definitely has got something

http://cdn.mm-health.com/bookimages/14/4720.1.png

This wouldn't be the worst thing a cynic could expect to win a Mercury but it's far too long and samey.

these lyrics are hilarious

i am a fan of this felo, have not heard album yet. i see 'rock bottom' is not on it, which i think is my favourite to this point.

Took me a while but now I love this. Hipster shot

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2013/09/23/130923crmu_music_frerejones

When I look at him I feel, I've known people like that. But not when I hear his voice

I would call the Krule record interesting.

The way his voice is mixed on the record makes me think of Ghostpoet

Whenever I see his name I think of

http://d2oz5j6ef5tbf6.cloudfront.net/movie/large/Krull.jpg

I think of king tuff which I LOVE

Do they still make movies like that?

lol @ sfj disagreeing w/ thread title's premise

His sound isn’t hip or trendy.

love it

he sounds like a depressed tom vek

i was thinking more like a drugged billy bragg

Yeah I don't really see what's so hipster about him - his sound is totally uncool retro and not ironic or whatever

most "hip or trendy" music made today sounds like it was made entirely on a laptop in someone's room, this sounds like it was made on a laptop in someone's room but with some jazz guitar chords on top.

hipsters reside in the U.S. iirc

Isn't hipster music defined by it's hipster fans and necessary the music itself?

Not necessary

said something on twitter last night about how I can't unhear him as a brain-damaged Billy Bragg and god it's just all encompassing. I like this record though

not sure where Jones gets the "young British Tom Waits" thing from - I guess Tom Waits is short-hand for singer-songwriter who likes jazz but doesn't strictly speaking play it? seems like a stretch

funny voices too

this record is kind of addicting. been raining a lot lately and it fits my mood to just shuffle around with a hangover

very autumnal

So where's this kid from, Lewisham?

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

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

cool john baldessari (i think?) cover art

archy confirmed on instagram a few days ago that they will be releasing a live album. he said it's been mastered and now they just need to get the logistics ball rolling for release. no other info yet.

i'm very excited by this news.

and away we go!

New live album getting love on Drake’s IG story lol

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)

they've reissued the the pre-space heavy flexis on double 7" and put them on streaming as the SHHHHHHH! ep.

great to have "achtung!" more out there-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh9h1MrA834

It just occurred to me while listening to “Out Getting Ribs” that Archy sings the way Arnold Schwarzenegger talks

lol well fgti if you like that, you'll love his new collab with gal go on "barefeet":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm3g6T2F6Qc

and it's weird to think that this is the first time he has officially appeared on any of ignacio's solo recordings. it reminds me of the shorter tracks on the ooz. ignacio's stuff is decent environmental indie listening and very cool to hear in short spurts, as it becomes _immediately_ clear what his inputs to the band are.