ARCHY MARSHALL A NEW PLACE TO DROWN FREE

ARCHY MARSHALL A NEW PLACE TO DROWN FREE

The accusations of infidelity on “Manimal” segue fittingly - sadly - into “A Conversation Between Me and My Penis,” an onanistic soliloquy that also swims just beneath the shadowy surface of “Sex With Nobody,” a glinting, Drown‘d tumble through Marshall’s free associations of bodily fluids and unfettered rhymes (“A relaxed marriage on an island in the South Pacific / So many dogs to be specific”). Some images in the book feature overlaid text, like If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late-styled chicken-scratch over a blurry plane in the sky or black-and-white Japanese lanterns hanging from some apartment ceiling. Scattered on typewritten pages between those images are poems, which sometimes reappear as lyrics in songs on the accompanying New Place 2 Drown - about kissing flies, f**king girls, mental health, and acid tabs they’re lines Archy obviously takes great pleasure in writing.Īlso Read Nicolas Cage Is Back in a Big Way in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talentīut back to the book. Jack has actually been involved in the visual process before: Inspired by Sin City sketcher Frank Miller and graphic novelist Charles Burns, he designed the cubist cover for 6 Feet Beneath the Moon. (This project also follows a collaborative gallery exhibition the two had last year, “Inner City Ooz.” Not to be outdone, Jack introduced his own artistic alter ego, Mstr Gone.) Such abstract images share glossy page space with grainy shots of the Marshalls and the gang out getting jerk wings, the tube, a park, and nighttime cityscapes of varying lucidity.

Now, after one Willow Smith cover, two solo name changes, and the introduction of Brainfeeder-ready jazz loops he produces as DJ JD Sports and Edgar the Beatmaker, Marshall has eponymously returned.Ī New Place 2 Drownis a joint multimedia endeavor - ten-minute documentary, 208-page art and poetry book, and 37-minute soundtrack - between Archy and his may-as-well-be-twin brother Jack, whose giggly ginger faces belie the musical accompaniment’s opium-stoned blue tone. Two years later, all of those tracks - including likely “Is This It?” ripper “Has This Hit” (Marshall has flattered Julian Casablancas in the sincerest way before) and his breakout back-porch ballad “Out Getting Ribs” - were groomed and polished for his proper debut LP, 2013’s 6 Feet Underneath the Moon. Once his gravelly sneer of a Cockney accent was simultaneously stripped down and amplified, Marshall renamed himself King Krule, striking with harder consonantal blows than his softer, singsong-y given name. his 2010 collection of minimally produced guitar scribbles as Zoo Kid - to his Bandcamp. Archy Marshall has been gradually creaking the door open, letting the light in on his gloaming guttersnipe blues, ever since uploading U.F.O.W.A.V.E.

Archy marshall a new place to drown