A listener can’t help but wonder if the new project carries more personal attachment, or if a drastic change in style warranted a new name on the album jacket, or whether the musician felt too old to trade in pseudonyms. This is music created under the role of the supportive brother, and for much of it, he’s too focused on his sibling’s creations to fully flesh out his own work.Įssential Tracks: “Ammi Ammi (feat.It’s all too easy to make pre-emptive existential assumptions when a musician ditches a moniker and records an album under his birth-name. But this isn’t released under his moniker. It’s the type of melding that speaks to King Krule’s innovation as a disheveled urbanite who finds hope amidst despair.
There’s little punk, if any, present on A New Place 2 Drown. With these three songs, King Krule once again demonstrates his ability to walk firmly between genres, picking up the best of whichever ones he pleases. Even “The Sea Liner Mk 1” strikes unvisited gold thanks to industrial clanking and a smattering of sampled sounds, recalling the work of Andy Stott. “Ammi Ammi” brings in London-based singer and producer Jamie Isaac whose verse echoes like the perky tone of Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor. Seven-minute closer “Thames Water” works its way through multiple suites (including a muted trap beat) before it snaps and ushers in the record’s most immersive and clean-cut electronic sample. For Archy, that results in a couple emotive cuts on the album. It’s clear they complement one another when on the same page. The two brothers laugh and nudge one another, sharing jokes funny only through the lens of familial bonds. Giant canvases stretch across an empty cement floor. In the film, the Marshalls’ mother cuts their hair on a chair in their backyard. They’re all in-the-moment tides, many of which are forgotten mere seconds after a song wraps up. “Sex with Nobody”, “New Builds”, and “Swell” play out like rejected beats no one wanted to rap over. The welcoming laughter prefacing “Eye’s Drift” hits like a dream, layering keys over a stuttering drumbeat in a melody that’s only good for transitions. “Buffed Sky” and “Arise Dear Brother” immediately introduce us to his new penchant for unstable hip-hop and electronic tedium - groundless emotion that never quite forms a shape worth pointing towards. But A New Place 2 Drown-era Archy is so caught up in those thoughts that the sounds begin to dissipate, vanishing to a place we can neither visit nor understand. A New Place 2 Drown acts as its follow-up, but experienced on its own, its pieces lose much of their meaning.ĭrown in your artwork, in your struggles, in your thoughts: That’s the heart of life for the two brothers on the slightly dirty edge of city limits.
Jack and Archy Marshall worked together on 2014’s “Inner City Ooz” project where the two wove live performances, visual art, and music into a single experience.
The same goes for the poetry listed between pages. The book’s photographs document friendships and mundane moments, from nuzzling dogs to shared cigarettes, all of which are captured in a way just inimitable enough to warrant a distinct trademark. Jack and Archy Marshall worked on A New Place 2 Drown in hopes of highlighting a book, soundtrack, and short film that explore the innards of their daily lives in South London.
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Apparently that warranted a full release as A New Place 2 Drown. The songs offered up, in conjunction with said art, unfortunately trod around like dejected trip-hop cuts still rubbing their eyes to wake up. In the two years that followed, Marshall worked beside his brother, Jack, to create a multidisciplinary body of work that changes up that formula. His lyrics and music combine to form an indulgent fusion of jazz and post-punk that’s complicated and sporadic, but sonically light. The allure comes from his marbled baritone, his elongated drawl, bringing poetic lines to life like he’s doing spoken word under an entire bottle of cough syrup. The English musician immediately made an impression, roping isolated guitar into a slosh of passionately arranged slacker rock. At 19 years old, Archy Marshall released his first LP as King Krule.
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