Author: King Krule

Brand: Crimson

Format: Original recording

Release Date: 21-02-2020

Details: King Krule has announced the release of his forthcoming album Man Alive!, due Feb 21 via True Panther/Matador Records. Archy Ivan Marshall has the world at his feet. After two feverishly received albums as King Krule, plus another low-key outing under his own name, this extraordinarily gifted 25-year-old from Peckham in South London adds further depth and substance to his oeuvre with his new, wondrous long-player, Man Alive!. It arrives packed full of his trademark sonic ambition and compositional skill, as well as the now-familiar corrosive lyricism and lurid social observation. Marshall has emerged as a pack leader amongst his peers, leading the charge in a fearless blurring of genre divisions. The album was written as a direct reaction to the non-stop energy of touring The Ooz, and then partly recorded at Shrunken Heads in Marshall's native stomping ground of Nunhead, with Ooz co-producer Dilip Harris. Increasingly self-sufficient in the studio, he manned most of the instruments himself, except for the saxophone, which was played by his trusty Argentinian amigo, Ignacio Salvadores. Midway through those sessions, however, Archy found out he was going to become a dad for the first time, and he decided to move up to the North West to be near the mother's family, ready for the baby's arrival. Archy Marshall's longstanding love of cinema seeps out in his first foray into directing, with a video for "(Don't Let The Dragon) Draag On" that pulls influences from Carl Theodor Dreyer's classic The Passion Of Joan Of Arc while still creating a typically wry King Krule visual. “A masterpiece of jaundiced vision from one of the most compelling artists alive.” - Pitchfork, 9.0 review of The OOZ. “Timelessly cool.” - The New York Times “He is the kind of storyteller who knows what makes a memorable story: a blend of the everyday and the unexpected, relatable situations told with perfect timing.” - The New Yorker Album And Artist Information: Midway sessions for the new album, Archy found out he was going to become a dad for the first time, and he decided to move up to the North West to be near the mother's family, ready for the baby's arrival. "I should've had it all wrapped up before my daughter was born," says Marshall today with a sheepish grin, during a return visit to his favourite public house in Nunhead, right across the street from Shrunken Heads. Impending parenthood came at a felicitous moment for him, as he was beginning to feel trapped in South London's suburban lifestyle of all-eclipsing drunkenness and depression, which existing fans will know was a recurring theme in his earlier music. "It was just the easiness of it," he reflects today. "There really is nothing else to do here, especially when it turns to winter. Everyone I know has jobs, whereas I'd sit on my arse all day sometimes not doing anything, then I'd go to the pub with them when they finished work. It became a bit habitual. Then, right in the middle of the record, this big change came in my life that I didn't really comprehend initially. It was like, 'Oh, I'd better get my shit together!' To be honest, I was really glad to get away from all that so I could focus on more pressing matters - like keeping a child alive and stuff." The new album's title, he explains, "is an exclamation, about the times we live in. Like, 'Fucking hell, man!'" He stole the title from a CD that his uncle gave him back in 2013 with some of his uncle's own music on it, and originally planned to use it for his last album. "But The Ooz really summed up that record," he reasons, "just this splurge of everything I love - messy and with no direction. I thought, anyway, 'Nah, I can't steal it off him', but now I'm like, 'Fuck it, I'm gonna use it!' I haven't really spoken to him about it actually. I just liked the idea of it as an exclamation. It's kind of like, 'Oh shit!', but I didn't wanna call it that, I wanted it to be 'Man A

UPC: 191403013329

EAN: 0191403013329

Languages: English

Binding: audioCD

Item Condition: New