Whereas this book, you can just buy it, and it's got a lot of art in it, and a lot of poetry. Nowadays you gotta buy pieces for mad amounts of money to get into an artist, or to feel that you're a part of that artist's career. I like to feel the performance.Īnd the art side of it - art I feel is hardly accessible for just normal people as well. I'd say gigs is the main way I like to listen to music. They can just be out here, having their whole persona online. People can - not wing it, but they can kinda wing it. It's hard to get a sense of the artist nowadays. How do you feel about streaming?Īrchy Marshall: Streaming's cool, but. 'Physicality' was a word that occurred to me, too. I like the fact that you can touch it and lick it and do stuff to it.

Why a mixed-media project this time instead of a conventional album release?Īrchy Marshall: I like the physicality of it. The two confirmed plans for a second King Krule album, revealed they won't tour behind the music on A New Place 2 Drown and unveiled at least tentative hopes for, naturally, a musical inspired by the 1991 film Slacker. In a nearly hour-long Skype conversation from Archy's smoke-filled bedroom in his mother's East Dulwich home, the brothers interacted with each other in a casual, roundabout way that naturally suited their work's candid feel. Crucially for King Krule fans, there's also a 37-minute set of music, this time attributed to Archy Marshall rather than one of the performer's several aliases. Another piece of the effort is a short documentary (which you can watch here) directed by filmmaker Will Robson-Scott. 'This book is a scrapbook of our relationship and how we see the world,' Archy told me. Reflecting the Internet-wary Marshall's preference for tangible experiences, the core of A New Place 2 Drown is a 208-page coffee-table tome of artwork, poems and photographs assembled in collaboration with his brother, the visual artist Jack Marshall. That fact is on vivid, street-level display in Marshall's new mixed-media project, A New Place 2 Drown, his first major release since his 2013 debut album, 6 Feet Beneath The Moon. His songs have earned plaudits from Beyonce and have been covered by Willow Smith, but the red-headed 21-year-old with a distinctive baritone shows little interest in the world beyond his neighborhood in southeast London. In fact, it seems safe to say that the relationship between the London singer, songwriter and producer better known as King Krule and popular culture in general is a one-way street. A New Place 2 Drown is Archy Marshall's first music since the release of his debut album as King Krule, 6 Feet Beneath The Moon in 2013.ĭrake's viral hit 'Hotline Bling' has been viewed by millions and has launched meme after meme on social media, but when asked about the rapper, Archy Marshall pleads ignorance.

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