King Krule

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

	6 Feet Beneath The Moon New - LP - 101 Sealed 2013 2LP Gatefold Original. “Not Since Rick Astley Has A Voice Seem So Mismatched With A Body. King Krule's 6 Feet Beneath The Moon Features One Archy Marshall, A 19-Year-Old With The Baby-Faced Looks Of A Young Ron Howard, Who Possesses A Huge Growling Baritone That Is Earthshaking And Soulful. Wisely, His Beguiling Voice Is Mixed Prominently In His Debut, Up Front, To Place An Accent On His Dexterous, Streetwise Lyrics And The Emotional Details In His Delivery. With A Snarling, Billy Idol Intensity, Archy Sings Like The Type Of Kid Who Would Be Quick To Throw A Punch Without Asking Questions. This Grittiness Contrasts With The Balladic Nature Of His Songs, Which Are Built From The Ground Up From A Guitar Plugged Clean Into A Twin Reverb, And A Love Of Jazz-Style Major Seventh Chords. Johnny Marr And British Pop Fusion Groups Like Prefab Sprout Play A Role In His Songwriting, As Do Electronic-Minded Londoners Like James Blake. His Breakout Single, "Out Getting Ribs," Demonstrates His Ability To Break Hearts With Just A Lone Guitar And Voice, But Elsewhere, Lo-Fi Breakbeats Permeate The Mix Subtly, With Songs Like "Will I Come" And "Neptune Estate" Using Some Tricks From Trip-Hop, Such As Samples, Loops, And Rhodes Piano. With So Many Varying Styles, It's A Bit Of A Surprise That It Comes Together So Effortlessly, But At Its Core, Krule Is Showing All Sides Of His U.K. Environment, And The Multiple Genres Laced Into The Sparse Backdrop Are Held Together By An Overlying Somber Grey Fog. Peel That Back And You Have One Of The Most Vital Debuts Of The Year.” - Jason Lymangrover, AMG more
	The Ooz New Import - XL872LP Sealed 2017 EU pressing. Custom clear hype sticker on shrink. "Archy Marshall debuted as Zoo Kid when he was an actual kid and released his acclaimed first album -- under the presumably self-bestowed title King Krule -- before he turned 20. Marshall continued work on new material for years but was displeased with it, save for a set of mumbling-in-a-bucket hip-hop blues, A New Place 2 Drown, credited to his off-stage name. The Ooz, the artist's second King Krule album, surfaced -- or is that seeped out? -- four years after the first one. Compared to the debut, the songwriting is more refined and the sounds are more disparate, resulting in a sort of controlled chaos, a scuzzy mix of nervy neo-rockabilly projectiles, howling dirges, and noodling dive-lounge tunes. It's further distinguished with saxophonist Ignacio Salvadores' writhing bleats, continually in support of Marshall's scraggly guitar work and variety of voices, as liable to sound like his slumped natural self as an exaggeration of growling punks like the Clash's Paul Simonon or the Ruts' Malcolm Owen. Clear references are made to Marshall's previous full-lengths, and repeated allusions to water -- as in sinking -- as well as blue as a color and feeling, are likewise threaded throughout. Damp, suffocating city streets are never distant. When Marshall retreats to physical solitude, he can't leave his head -- not even with a prescription, a situation related in a whirling frenzy of insomniac agitation titled, naturally, "Emergency Blimp." Marshall is just as expressive and evocative when he keeps it guttural; "She smoked me whole and blows out Os," over decayed, dispirited bossa nova, passes like a wisp but could be the album's emotional center. Details that seem to provide levity -- "Man this band that's playin', is playing fucking trash" among them -- have a way of heightening the sense of inescapable dread. No matter that feeling, illustrated with one distressed scene after another, filtered through a multitude of inspirations and a few bodily fluids, The Ooz is a completely engrossing work from a one-off." All Music Guide - Andy Kellman more
	You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down New Import - XL1182LP Sealed 2021 Original Gatefold. EU Import. "King Krule's You Heat Me Up You Cool Me Down Is Their Second Live Album To Be Released Within Three Years -- But Frontman, Songwriter, And Multi-Instrumentalist Archy Marshall Didn't Plan It That Way. King Krule Were Just Kicking Off A World Tour To Support The Stellar Man Alive! When The Covid-19 Pandemic Arrived. They'd Managed To Get In Just Three Shows -- Two In Paris, One In Amsterdam -- Before Canceling The Tour. The Best Music From These Concerts Was Compiled For This Document. The Tunes Are Drawn From King Krule's Somewhat Small Catalog -- A Healthy Portion From Man Alive! And The Ooz, With A Few Faves From 6 Feet Beneath The Moon. Frontman And Songwriter Archy Marshall Seemingly Agrees With Bob Dylan's Aesthetic When It Comes To Performing His Own Catalog: He Rearranges Songs Constantly To Keep Them Fresh. Opener "Out Getting Ribs" (From Marshall's Related Zoo Kid Project) Registers As A Laconic, Emotionally Intense Ballad With Droning Saxophones, Slowly Plucked Guitars, And Kick Drums, While Marshall Allows His Lyrics To Emerge Slowly Before The Track Explodes In Conclusion. "The Ooz" Commences As A Soul Ballad, But Turns On Its Distorted Bassline Into Something Abstract, Improvisational, And Nearly Dangerous. "Stoned Again" Lurches Forward With Fuzzed-Out Guitars And Loopy Synth, With Hovering Deep Saxophone And A Kinetic Drum Kit Marking A Slow, Shuffling Processional. Marshall Urgently Pushes Out The Words With A Punk Swagger As The Tune Gathers Force And Becomes A Gnarly Garage Rocker. The Knotty, Razor-Wire Anglo-Soul In "Rock Bottom" Delivers Skittering Dynamics And Fist-Pumping Grooves To Reveal The Twin Influences Of Paul Weller And Curtis Mayfield Simultaneously. Marshall Introduces "Comet Face" By Intoning "I Don't Have Too Much To Say," Before Careening Across Garage Jazz And Post-Punk, Complete With An Unhinged Sax Solo That Recalls Ted Milton's Blurt. "Baby Blue" Is As Tender As It Is Desperate. Marshall's Words Emerge Hesitantly At First, Almost Mumbled As He Sets Out His Sad Truth: "My Sandpaper Sigh Engraves A Line/Into The Rust Of Your Tongue/girl I Could've Been Someone, To You/would Have Painted The Skies Blue...." Problem Is, She Has No Idea He's Alive. A Gritty, Double-Tracked Tenor Saxophone Rebukes Him And Takes Over After The Bridge. Closer "Easy Easy" Is An Observation Of Working-Class Life As The Protagonist Struggles To Accept The Day-To-Day Grind Without Losing His Mind. The Crowd Participation Is Full And Enthusiastic, Transforming The Tune Into A Cockney Workers' Anthem. Guitars Blast Across The Refrain As The Drums Double-time Marshall, Who Is At His Honest, Sometimes Menacing, Off-Key Best. While King Krule Fans Will Readily Consider You Heat Me Up You Cool Me Down Essential Listening, There Is A Serious Argument To Be Made For This As A Fine Introduction To The Uninitiated." AMG Review By Thom Jurek. more