THE OOZ

Description

At just 19 years old, the prodigy with multiple identities - Zoo Kid, Edgar The Beatmaker, DJ JD Sport – revealed himself to a wider audience with the excellent 6 Feet Beneath the Moon in 2013. Even though he has since offered us an incredible A New Place 2 Drown under his real name, Archy Marshall, in collaboration with his brother Jack, and multiplied collaborations with Mount Kimbie & Ratking, and even Frank Ocean, The Ooz marks the grand return of one of the figureheads of the British independent scene, a new dense and sprawling album. Adrift in South London, King Krule casts a determined gaze upon his kingdom. He transforms his observations, the confusions and heartbreaks that marked his youth, into poetic narratives of striking honesty and brutal beauty. Marshall takes on the role of spokesperson-poet for a disoriented and confused generation, painting a bleak, sometimes harrowing, portrait of a city fragmenting. Behind the embellishments and jazzy guitars, Marshall displays his intention, singing about love in decay and personal annihilation with acute, almost painful, precision. The two devastating themes of self-annihilation and the deterioration of human relationships seem inextricably linked in Marshall's vision: to give oneself completely to another is inevitably to commit to losing oneself upon their departure. Dark but pierced by the luminous poetry of the young Londoner, The Ooz explores the depths of its author's soul with incredible ambition. The soundtrack of an era in an existential crisis?