King Krule – Space Heavy (CD)
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Archy Marshall has been building one of contemporary music's most singular voices since his teenage years, weaving post-punk abrasion, jazz-inflected guitar, and a distinctly South London poetry into something that resists easy comparison. Space Heavy finds him further refining that sound into something more skeletal and interior, the production stripped to let the emotional weight breathe.
Written from 2020 to 2022 in between London and Liverpool, ‘Space Heavy’ took shape over the course of Archy’s commutes between the two cities where he was splitting his time. Befitting an album quite literally written on the commute between the two places he called home, Archy found himself fascinated by the notion of “the space between” – the space haunted by dreams of love, touching a narrative of lost connection, losing people and situations to the guillotine of the universe. ‘Space Heavy, indeed.’ The result is an album that inhabits the deepest reaches of the subterranean sonic world that Archy has constructed over the course of his career as King Krule. In it you hear a generational artist stepping into the height of their artistic powers – the auteurism apparent on his debut ‘6 Feet Beneath The Moon,’ the shapeshifting sonic palette of ‘The OOZ’ and the primality of ‘Man Alive!’ all coalesce into a wizened, dynamic body of work that reveals new elements with each listen. In line with Archy’s interest in the space between, it is an album wherein the negative space demands the same attention as the positive space. If one is willing to wade into the mire the reward is rich.
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UPC: 191401195027
Label: Matador Records
Release Date: 6.9.23
Format: CD