KING KRULE SHARES TRAVI$ SCOTT REMIX OF "NEPTUNE ESTATE" VIA
ANNOUNCES EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
6 FEET BENEATH THE MOON OUT NOW VIA TRUE PANTHER/XL RECORDINGS
Remix art by Jim Joe, creative direction care of Virgil Abloh
In advance of his upcoming European tour, King Krule is back today to share Kanye West collaborator Travi$ Scott's remix of 6 Feet Beneath The Moon
highlight "Neptune Estate," accompanied by new artwork from Jim Joe
with creative direction from Virgil Abloh. The remix finds Scott
striking a balance between the original's somber mood and his own
trademark production, rounded out with an entirely new verse. Check out
the remix along with King Krule's upcoming tour dates below.
LISTEN: "Neptune Estate (Travi$ Scott Remix) - http://youtu.be/YgPx_UnWYys
TOUR DATES
04/01 Cologne, Germany - Gebaude 9
04/02 Lille, France - Le Grand Mix
04/04 Paris, France - La Cigale
04/05 Lyon, France - Marché Gare
04/07 Milan, Italy - Magnolia
04/08 Munich, Germany - Atomic Cafe
04/09 Berlin, Germany - Heimathafen
04/11 Copenhagen, Denmark - Pumpehuset
04/13 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Strand
Tickets available at http://kingkrule.co.uk/dates/
About King Krule:
As King Krule, 18 year
old south-east London based singer/producer/songwriter Archy Marshall
has quietly and stealthily crafted a reputation for himself as one of
the most raw and startling voices of a new generation. With his
unexpectedly deep and mournful baritone tracing fissures of
disappointment and social disorientation to devastating effect, Marshall
has harnessed the inchoate frustration and fury of youth and translated
it into a series of brilliant singles released on the likes of True
Panther Sounds and Rinse over the past few years.
Now comes 6 Feet Beneath the Moon,
his first full-length on XL Recordings/True Panther Sounds, and with
it, the much anticipated unveiling of the full scope and scale of
Marshall's vision. Over the course of 14 tracks, Marshall's passions and
confusions are rubbed raw and laid bare, the only connective tissue
throughout it all being one of searing lyrical clarity paired with a
confounding musical deftness which utterly belies his tender years. From
the opening clarion call of "Easy, Easy" it is abundantly clear that
this is a breathtakingly bold and arresting sonic worldview, as his
songs, produced by Marshall along with Rodaidh McDonald (The XX,
Savages), open up to become a loose knit meditation on regret and
discontent, loss of faith and renewal of hope, and optimism in the face
of desperation.
Eschewing much of his previously released material, 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
firmly yet soundly rejects any notion of contemporary trends or peers
to occupy its very own unique place on the music landscape, oscillating
gently between the classic 50's soul of Gene Vincent and Elvis Presley
to the minimal, avant-garde experimentation of Penguin Café Orchestra,
to even the electronic smog and dub textures of Marshall's beloved Rinse
FM. This is a record where the nakedly bluesy stomp of the likes of "A
Lizard State" and "Easy, Easy" sit effortlessly next to the low-end
frequency and shimmering beats of "Neptune Estate" and "Will I Come,"
after all. It is reflective as much of Marshall's own eclectic tastes as
it is of the frenetic pulse and rhythm of the city around him,
particularly the rapidly changing south-east areas in which he grew up.
There is a genuine grittiness and world weariness ingrained here, as
exemplified so succinctly when Marshall sings, "Hate...runs through my
blood" on the stunning "Out Getting Ribs," the track which started all
the fuss.
All these esoteric
textures and fidgety, off-kilter rhythms make perfect sense as an album
however, especially when you consider that incredible voice. Whether he
is singing ruefully of youthful disaffection and "the heat of my own
treason" ("Ceiling") or spitting out venomous lines like "I'm not going
to crack like you cracked...I don't want to be trapped in the black of
your heart" over the jittery "A Lizard State," its clear that something
which marks Marshall out is his stunning ability to turn intense
emotional peaks and troughs into spectacular pieces of artful,
atmospheric and anthemic balladeering.
Some of the imagery is
disturbing to be sure (as on the closer "Bathed in Grey" where he
offhandedly murmurs that he "there was blood...found a body in the
dark") but the songs are also imbued with genuine heart as well, as
epitomised on his heart rending update of "Out Getting Ribs." Taken as a
whole, 6 Feet Beneath the Moon is the sound of a young man
growing up - not for nothing is this album being released,
unconventionally enough, on a Saturday, which also marks Marshall's 19th
birthday - and attempting to grapple with the realities of the world he
inhabits, an unsparing dissection of the social decay that has begun to
set in around him - and a fascinating, brutal journey it is too.
King Krule
6 Feet Beneath The Moon
(True Panther/XL Recordings)
Aug 24, 2013
1. Easy Easy
2. Border Line
3. Has This Hit?
4. Foreign 2
5. Ceiling
6. Baby Blue
7. Cementality
8. A Lizard State
9. Will I Come
10. Ocean Bed
11. Neptune Estate
12. The Krockadile
13. Out Getting Ribs
14. Bathed in Grey
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