A New Place 2 Drown is Marshall’s first release under his real name, and this more personal quality is reflected in the ambience of the album itself. Marshall found widespread recognition following his debut album 6 Feet Beneath the Moon under the name King Krule. Photo Credit: The Windish AgencyĪrchy Marshall – otherwise known as Zoo Kid, DJ JD Sports, Edgar the Beatmaker, and King Krule – has been in a state of perpetual flux between genres since the release of his first single ‘U.F.O.W.A.V.E’ in 2010. Sex With Nobody turns a stand-up comedy routing into a fragmented free form blend of nonsense (“A relaxed marriage on an island in the South Pacific / So many dogs to be specific”) that morphs from innocuous to chilling under the repetition of Marshall’s increasingly murky intonation.Ī New Place 2 Drown is as hard to pin down as Marshall himself - yet it’s also equally fascinating.MEGAN WALKER looks at the South London artist’s new LP. Swell is an elegant song – delicate touches of piano, tinkling cymbals and submerged horns balance out the deep bass and glitchy beats it bounds along upon.Īmmi Ammi features the voice of fellow South London up-and-coming singer and producer Jamie Isaac, who sounds hauntingly reminiscent of Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, for a disarming duet. Pushing to the background his distinctive husky baritone, the songs instead find themselves swamped in the luxurious slow-grinding, bass heavy flow of trip-hop or early ’90s Wu-Tang Clan. Instead of summoning the soulful sounds of his musical forbearers, instead Marshall is stepping in place with his contemporaries like James Blake, Burial and Mount Kimbie. Released in a matter of a few days was a collection of photography, a book of sketches, a short film, a book of poetry and this full length album – all under the name A New Place 2 Drown.įor those looking for a brand new King Krule record beware – while 6 Feet Beneath the Moon showcased Marshall’s developing talents as a songwriter, this album displays his burgeoning abilities as a producer. This project isn’t simply an album, but a multi-format art project in collaboration with his brother Jack that highlights the ongoing trials and tribulations of the brothers’ native South London. Categorisation is an often futile pursuit for many artists, but for Marshall it feels every move he makes is an oblique attempt to defy anything that could be considered the norm and daring only the most obsessed to follow.Ī New Place 2 Drown takes Marshall’s wandering artistic eye one step further. It’s an impressive and difficult body of work to pin down for the ordinary fan – and little of it is under the King Krule name he is most readily associated with. He’s popped out hip-hop mixtapes, reimagined and remixed the works of others, experimented in ambient instrumentals, and popped up in various locations to drop guest verses. Willow Smith, the spawn of Will and Jada, covered his tunes with barely the bat of an eyelash.īut Marshall’s interests diverge into much stranger territory than the works of King Krule. Marshall’s demonic take on neo-soul helped bash down the doors through which the likes of George Ezra skipped through to greater notice and public adoration. There’s something eternally endearing about tracks such as Easy Easy, Baby Blue and Border Line that form the meeting place of classic pop song writing and darker, more dangerous musical excursions. It seemed almost beyond comprehension that the gruff world-weary tunes of love, loss and life spewing forth could somehow belong to someone to someone so young – let alone someone who looked like the deliberately forgotten evil twin of Ron Weasley.Ħ Feet Beneath the Moon touched a nerve that most people never knew existed. What made that album, 6 Feet Beneath the Moon, so endearingly unique was the wounded snarl of Marshall’s voice – somewhere in between Tom Waits and The Streets’s Mike Skinner – and his painfully honest lyricism. His debut full-length album, released under the King Krule name, was an unexpected delight – capturing elements of trip-hop, folksy singer-songwriter balladry and gritty spoken realist poetry all in one dreamy collection and all at the tender age of 19. Archy Marshall, perhaps best known under his moniker King Krule, has been remarkably proficient yet incredibly hard to pin down.
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