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King Krule Announces 2023 Tour

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King Krule has announced a string of tour dates that will follow the release of his next album, Space Heavy , which arrives June 9 via Matador . Archy Marshall and his band will get started in Minneapolis on Friday, July 21, stopping over at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago the following day. Then, King Krule will wind through Detroit, Montreal, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Nashville, Denver, Seattle, and more, before playing his final U.S. gig in Los Angeles on September 25. King Krule will also play venues in the United Kingdom and Europe in October and November. Find the full itinerary below.

Space Heavy is King Krule’s follow-up to 2020’s Man Alive! Marshall wrote the album during periods in London and Liverpool between 2020 to 2022. He was largely inspired by the notion of “the space between” while conceptualizing his new batch of songs, which he recorded with producer Dilip Harris, saxophonist Ignacio Salvadores, drummer George Bass, bassist James Wilson, and guitarist Jack Towell.

Upon announcing Space Heavy last month, Marshall shared lead single “Seaforth,” along with with a music video directed by Jocelyn Anquetil . A couple of happy dogs co-starred with the musician in the clip.

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07-21 Minneapolis, MN - First Ave 07-22 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival 07-23 Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple Theatre 07-25 Toronto, Ontario - History 07-26 Montreal, Quebec - Corona Theatre 07-28 Boston, MA - House of Blues 07-29 Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club 07-30 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer 08-01 Brooklyn, NY - Kings Theatre 09-08 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse 09-09 Nashville, TN - Brooklyn Bowl 09-11 Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall 09-12 Austin, TX - Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater 09-13 Dallas, TX - House of Blues 09-15 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre 09-16 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot 09-18 Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre 09-19 Vancouver British Columbia - Vogue Theatre 09-20 Seattle, WA - Paramount Theater 09-23 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater 09-25 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium 10-04 Dublin, Ireland - 3 Olympia 10-06 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowland 10-07 Manchester, England - Academy 10-09 London, England - Eventim Apollo 10-16 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso 10-18 Antwerp, Belgium - De Roma 10-19 Brussels, Belgium - AB 10-21 Cologne, Germany - Carlswerk Victoria 10-23 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega 10-26 Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle 10-27 Prague, Czech Republic - Forum Karlin 10-28 Vienna, Austria - Simm City 10-30 Budapest, Hungary - Akvarium Klub 10-31 Ljubljana, Slovenia - Kino Siska 11-01 Zagreb, Croatia - Tvornica Kultur 11-03 Lausanne, Switzerland - Les Docks 11-04 Turin, Italy - Club to Club Festival 11-06 Paris, France - Trianon

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King Krule announces Space Heavy tour dates

Archy marshall will be playing live across north america, europe, the u.k. from this summer..

King Krule is heading out on tour with the announcement of a huge tour across North America and Europe.

Krule, who recently announced details of new album Space Heavy and shared lead single "Seaforth," will begin his run of dates in North America with a show in Minneapolis on July 21. He will then make his way across North America, including dates in Brooklyn and Los Angeles among other.

Read Next: Watch King Krule perform Space Heavy songs in New York

In October the tour transfers to Europe, with shows in Ireland and the U.K. as well as Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, France, and more. Tickets are available from Friday, May 5 at 10 a.m. local time. See the full schedule below.

King Krule tour dates

July 21 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue July 22 - Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Festival July 23 - Detroit, Mi - Masonic Temple Theater July 25 - Toronto, ON - History July 26 - Montreal, QC - Corona Theater July 28 - Boston, MA - House of Blues July 29 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club July 30 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer August 1 - Brooklyn, NY - Kings Theater September 8 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse September 9 - Nashville, TN - Brooklyn Bowl September 11 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall September 12 - Austin, TX - Stubbs Waller Creek Ampitheater September 13 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues September 15 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theater September 16 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot September 18 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theater September 19 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theater September 20 - Seattle, WA - Parmount Theater September 23 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater September 25 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium

October 4 - Dublin, Ireland - 3Olympia October 6 - Glasgow, U.K. - Barrowland Ballroom October 7 - Manchester, U.K. - Academy October 9 - London, U.K. - Eventim Apollo October 16 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso October 18 - Antwerp, Belgium - De Roma October 19 - Brussels, Belgium - AB October 21 - Cologne, Germany - Carlswerk Victoria October 23 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega October 26 - Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle October 27 - Prague, Czech Republic - Forum Karlin October 28 - Vienna, Austria - Simm City October 30 - Budapest, Hungary - Akvarium Klub October 31 - Ljubljana, Slovenia - Kino Siska November 1 - Zagreb, Croatia - Tvornica Kultur November 3 - Lausanne, Switzerland - Les Docks November 4 - Turin, Italy - Club To Club Festival November 6 - Paris, France - Trianon

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King Krule Announces 2023 “Space Heavy Tour”

In support of his upcoming album Space Heavy

King Krule has announced his 2023 “Space Heavy Tour,” which will not be going to outer space, but will  be a fairly comprehensive trek across North America and Europe. The tour is in support of the musician’s upcoming album Space Heavy .

Archy Marshall will kick things off on July 21st at Minneapolis’ First Avenue before making stops in cities including Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Brooklyn, Houston, Seattle, and Los Angeles throughout the summer. In early October, he’ll cross the pond to begin the UK/EU leg in Dublin, hitting a bunch of European countries before completing the tour in Paris on November 6th.

Grab yours at Ticketmaster . Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

See King Krule’s 2023 “Space Heavy Tour” dates below.

Space Heavy  is out June 9th on Matador, and Marshall shared its lead single “Seaforth” a couple of weeks ago. That album will be his first since  Man Alive!   in 2020.

King Krule 2023 Tour Dates: 07/21 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue 07/22 – Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival 07/23 – Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple Theatre 07/25 – Toronto, ON @ History 07/26 – Montréal, QC @ Corona Theatre 07/28 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues 07/29 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club 07/30 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer 08/01 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre 08/02 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre 09/08 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse 09/09 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl 09/11 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall 09/12 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater 09/13 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues 09/15 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre 09/16 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot 09/18 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre 09/19 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre 09/20 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre 09/23 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater 09/24 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium 09/25 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium 10/04 – Dublin, IE @ Olympia 10/06 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland 10/07 – Manchester, UK @ Academy 10/09 – London, UK @ Eventim Apollo 10/10 – London, UK @ London Eventim Apollo 10/16 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso 10/17 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso 10/18 – Antwerp, BE @ De Roma 10/19 – Brussels, BE @ AB 10/21 – Cologne, DE @ Carlswerk Victoria 10/23 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega 10/24 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega 10/26 – Berlin, DE @ Columbiahalle 10/27 – Prague, CZ @ Forum Karlin 10/28 – Vienna, AT @ Simm City 10/30 – Budapest, HU @ Akvarium Klub 10/31 – Ljubljana, SI @ Kino Siska 11/01 – Zagreb, HR @ Tvornica Kulture 11/03 – Lausanne, CH @ Les Docks 11/04 – Turin, IT @ Club To Club Festival 11/06 – Paris, FR @ Trianon 11/07 – Paris, France @ Trianon

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An iconic punk-jazz star for his acclaimed records, "The Ooz" and "Man Alive!", King Krule is back in the game. Set to release his fifth studio album, "Space Heavy", on June 9th, the man also announced a tour in support of his new material. With a rocket-launching Space Heavy Tour coming right up, the man is set to launch audiences into a new world at Hollywood Palladium on Monday, 25th of September 2023. As "Space Heavy" prepares for takeoff, King Krule gave fans a taste of outer space with his new single "Seaforth". Its release marks 10 years since he dropped his debut album "6 Feet Beneath the Moon" which marked the beginning of his reign. As Space Heavy launches a new King Krule era, don't miss out on Krule's biggest hits, fan favorites, and new songs live at the Space Heavy Tour by booking your tickets now!

The man is definitely alive! Gearing up to take off into another world with his upcoming album, Space Heavy, King Krule just announced his supporting Space Heavy Tour, set to play cities in the US kicking off in July and closing the leg in September before he launches into Europe by October. As a follow-up to his highly-acclaimed 2020 album "Man Alive!", King Krule gave fans a taste of Space Heavy with his newest single "Seaforth", along with a matching video featuring some adorable dogs.

Written amidst the global pandemic, Archy Marshall, the man behind the King Krule moniker, shared that he was "fascinated by the notion of ‘the space between’". The 15-track album explores a "narrative of lost connection", exploring spaces that one goes through.

Space Heavy is officially launching into the airwaves on June 9th via Matador. The record features his collaborator, Dilip Harris, produced alongside bandmates Ignacio Salvadores, James Wilson, George Bass, and Jack Towell. Inspired by two spaces he takes great importance as his homes, London and Liverpool, the album is set to dive into the in-betweens of life.

In an interview following the release of his "Man Alive!" LP in 2020, "London is just the place I’ve been for 24 years," Marshall tells Loud and Quiet. "I enjoy the pace of life outside of London. I enjoy the air and the landscape… I’ve matured over the past year in conversation and appreciation and humanity,"

As Space Heavy explores in-betweens of his life between London and Liverpool, both uplifting and heart-wrenching tales await listeners as King Krule is known for his honest lyrics matched with alluring punk-jazz instrumentals.

King Krule's notable hits and crowd favorites include "Alone, Omen 3", "Slush Puppy", "Baby Blue", "Out Getting Ribs", and "Border Line".

In a 2019 feature with Flaunt magazine, Marshall shares that "Literature, poems, songs are all very similar… It’s all part of the same tapestry," talking about his lyricism and creative process. "I used to read lots of poetry and sit there for ages trying to decipher the meaning… then I found my own form of that."

Known for his honest lyrics and deliberate artistry, King Krule became a staple favorite in the indie-rock scene for his punk-jazz fusion with influences of hip-hop, darkwave, and trip-hop. He takes inspiration from the likes of Elvis Presley, Chet Baker, Fela Kuti, Billy Bragg, Pixies, The Libertines, and many more.

As Space Heavy lands a new dimension for King Krule's reign, don't miss out on the Space Heavy Tour live at Hollywood Palladium on September 25th by booking your tickets now!

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King Krule has announced his 2023 “Space Heavy Tour,” which will not be going to outer space, but will  be a fairly comprehensive trek across North America and Europe. The tour is in support of the musician’s upcoming album Space Heavy .

Archy Marshall will kick things off on July 21st at Minneapolis’ First Avenue before making stops in cities including Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Brooklyn, Houston, Seattle, and Los Angeles throughout the summer. In early October, he’ll cross the pond to begin the UK/EU leg in Dublin, hitting a bunch of European countries before completing the tour in Paris on November 6th.

General sale for tickets begins this Friday, May 5th at 10:00 a.m. local time, and you can grab yours at Ticketmaster . Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub , where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

See King Krule’s 2023 “Space Heavy Tour” dates below.

Space Heavy  is out June 9th on Matador, and Marshall shared its lead single “Seaforth” a couple of weeks ago. That album will be his first since  Man Alive!   in 2020.

King Krule 2023 Tour Dates: 07/21 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue 07/22 – Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival 07/23 – Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple Theatre 07/25 – Toronto, ON @ History 07/26 – Montréal, QC @ Corona Theatre 07/28 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues 07/29 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club 07/30 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer 08/01 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre 09/08 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse 09/09 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl 09/11 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall 09/12 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater 09/13 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues 09/15 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre 09/16 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot 09/18 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre 09/19 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre 09/20 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre 09/23 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater 09/25 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium 10/04 – Dublin, IE @ Olympia 10/06 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland 10/07 – Manchester, UK @ Academy 10/09 – London, UK @ Eventim Apollo 10/16 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso 10/18 – Antwerp, BE @ De Roma 10/19 – Brussels, BE @ AB 10/21 – Cologne, DE @ Carlswerk Victoria 10/23 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega 10/26 – Berlin, DE @ Columbiahalle 10/27 – Prague, CZ @ Forum Karlin 10/28 – Vienna, AT @ Simm City 10/30 – Budapest, HU @ Akvarium Klub 10/31 – Ljubljana, SI @ Kino Siska 11/01 – Zagreb, HR @ Tvornica Kulture 11/03 – Lausanne, CH @ Les Docks 11/04 – Turin, IT @ Club To Club Festival 11/06 – Paris, FR @ Trianon

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King Krule is taking things out of this world for his upcoming "Space Heavy Tour" concert trek in the United States and in Europe for a string of concerts this 2023.

The said tour will be in support of the musician's upcoming album, "Space Heavy," which will hit Jun. 9, 2023. This is the sequel to his album, "Man Alive!" which was released in 2020.

Kicking off in Minneapolis, King Krule's US Concert will also thread through Canada on Montreal and Toronto for two days before heading towards Boston, Washington, Brooklyn, Atlanta, Austin, Salt Lake City, Seattle, and finally Los Angeles on Sep. 25, 2023.

King Krule announced tour dates across the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK 👀 pic.twitter.com/4KqYK3Ovpc — Pigeons & Planes (@PigsAndPlans) May 1, 2023

Check out King Krule's US Concert dates below:

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King Krule US Concert Dates

• Jul. 21, 2023, in Minneapolis, MN, at the First Avenue
• Jul. 22, 2023, in Chicago, IL, at the Pitchfork Festival
• Jul. 23, 2023, in Detroit, Mi, at the Masonic Temple Theater
• Jul. 25, 2023, in Toronto, ON, at the History
• Jul. 26, 2023, in Montreal, QC, at the Corona Theater
• Jul. 28, 2023, in Boston, MA, at the House of Blues
• Jul. 29, 2023, in Washington, DC, at the 9:30 Club
• Jul. 30, 2023, in Philadelphia, PA, at the Union Transfer
• Aug. 1, 2023, in Brooklyn, NY, at the Kings Theater
• Sep. 8, 2023, in Atlanta, GA, at the Variety Playhouse
• Sep. 9, 2023, in Nashville, TN, at the Brooklyn Bowl
• Sep. 11, 2023, in Houston, TX, at the White Oak Music Hall
• Sep. 12, 2023, in Austin, TX, at the Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater
• Sep. 13, 2023, in Dallas, TX, at the House of Blues
• Sep. 15, 2023, in Denver, CO, at the Ogden Theater
• Sep. 16, 2023, in Salt Lake City, UT, at The Depot
• Sep. 18, 2023, in Portland, OR, at the Roseland Theater
• Sep. 19, 2023, in Vancouver, BC, at the Vogue Theater
• Sep. 20, 2023, in Seattle, WA, at the Paramount Theater
• Sep. 23, 2023, in Oakland, CA, at the Fox Theater
• Sep. 25, 2023, in Los Angeles, CA, at the Hollywood Palladium

How to Buy King Krule US Tour Tickets?

According to Consequence , King Krule US concert tickets can be bought on May 5, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. local time. Ticketmaster will manage the ticket selling, and StubHub can also be an alternative point of purchase too.

Check out this website for more information .

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In a quiet corner of an east London pub, Archy Marshall is plotting abdication. ‘I want to get rid of the King from the name,’ says the flame-haired subversive best known by the moniker King Krule , keeping his voice low lest the label and management powers-that-be propping up the bar get wind of his plans to do a Prince Harry. ‘When I was young I loved it because it was quite rockabilly, like King Kurt. Now I find it a bit cringey.’ He laughs to himself. ‘We should call it Kringe Krule. I just want to be Krule because it sounds a bit more arty.’

Marshall has certainly earned enough art rock credentials to become a one-namer, his generation’s Eno or Fripp. It’s been 10 years since the darkly petulant urban jazz and post-punk of his breakthrough 2013 debut album 6 Feet Beneath the Moon, cowled with his moody, lip-curled teenage baritone, was feted by Beyoncé and Frank Ocean. Back then he was an intriguing outlier; a broken down broken-home kid, the voice of a hounded and hopeless generation.

In the intervening decade he’s built a feverish cult fan base around the world with records (2017’s Mercury nominated The Ooz, 2020’s Man Alive!, this year’s Top 20 Space Heavy) that have shattered and remoulded alternative music in innovative new shapes and encapsulated — if not originated — the form-defying south London scene of Black Midi, Jockstrap and Black Country, New Road. Merging avant-rock, jazz, trip hop, post-punk and electronica into a spacious cityscape of sound, he’s not merely the new future sound of London but its modern mindset, too.

As an artist renowned for songs wracked with depression, romance, anger and urban disintegration, Marshall’s reputation as a surly, downbeat interviewee goes before him. He arrives at today’s photo shoot declaring himself ‘in a foul mood’ and, six lens hours later, takes to our pub table interview arena downcast and fidgeting. He plays with his trinket bracelet as he speaks, scratching at his lean cheeks, starts on rudimentary beermat towers.

Despite his unsettled air, he doesn’t seem distracted or dismissive. There’s deep thought at play, which brightens his eyes when we land on an engaging topic. ‘When I started [in 2010, aged 16], I remember being super depressed with the current guitar music,’ he says, a semi-smile flashing his gold front tooth as we pull at the roots of the south London scene. ‘I was so sick and tired of the sound of the guitar at the time. It needed to change. I don’t know if it created anything but what I was doing was what I needed because there were no guitar bands that represented the guitar any more. We’d come from the back of having The Libertines and Arctic Monkeys and The Strokes before that, and what they created. Then all of a sudden it got really synthy and twee, and it wasn’t cool to listen to that in south London. It just felt there needed to be something better.’

He tips his hat to the Eddie Cochran riffs, Pixies basslines, Talking Heads hooks and dub reggae grooves that he turned to for inspiration as a teenager, as well as ‘stealing my entire sound’ from his brother’s band, Words Backwards. ‘At the same time all these jazzers started coming out…’

Part of Marshall’s moodiness this afternoon is likely down to the dawn flight he has to catch tomorrow to embark on the second leg of a major US tour ahead of a run of UK dates peaking with two nights at the Hammersmith Apollo in October. America has particularly taken to the immersive textures and sodden emotion of King Krule’s music; the cult is strong there. ‘I find all over the world people have a deep connection to some of the stuff that I’m creating,’ he says. ‘But the country with probably the most support is America.’

I was paranoid of the police, paranoid of being robbed, paranoid of not having any money…

He was pleased with the tour’s first leg. The band clicked at a memorable gig at Detroit’s Masonic Temple (‘It was spooky… I was definitely questioning the purpose of some of the rooms’), and he’s enjoying the looseness of the shows, sometimes switching up and extending the songs mid-set. But with his years of after-show mayhem largely behind him (‘I don’t have a desire for that’) he finds lengthy tours a mixed emotional bag. ‘I’ve been doing it for ages so it just feels really comfortable. It just goes on for way too long… There’s been moments where you want to never play the music that you’re playing again. But then a month later you’ll be more excited than ever. So you have switches.’

Marshall’s has been a life in fluctuation. As a child, he split his time between his artist and costume designer mother’s house in East Dulwich and his art director father’s flat in Peckham, in constant limbo between the bohemian and the down-at-heel. He struggled with discipline, was frequently truant — his strict father would literally drag him to school — and was tested at Maudsley Hospital for a variety of mental health conditions, engendering a distrust of authority. ‘A lot of the time, the doctors and the psychiatrists and the counsellors and my social workers were plain wrong,’ he’s said. ‘Basically, I hated everyone.’

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He describes his teenage London life as intensely paranoid. ‘Paranoid of the police, paranoid of being robbed, paranoid of ticket inspectors, paranoid of not having any money. I was on edge quite a lot. I really enjoyed it though. It wasn’t that bad but, if I look back on it, it felt like there was a lot of surviving in an all-or-nothing way.’

Via several schools for excluded children, Marshall eventually landed a place at the Brit School, where he overcame his discipline issues and bloomed as an artist. His 2010 releases as Zoo Kid — and particularly the minimalist and atmospheric ‘Out Getting Ribs’ single — were hailed as striking new noir twists on the tormented teenage experience and debut 6 Feet Beneath the Moon made him a global talking point. Beyoncé posted links to his songs, Kanye West and Frank Ocean were asking about collaborations. King Krule was handed a cultural sceptre, awaiting only his crown.

Most young acts, particularly with Adele’s label and management behind them, would consolidate such attention with further high-profile releases. But Marshall shrank away. For four years he released no new King Krule albums, putting out his second record, the hip hop-based A New Place 2 Drown, under his own name. It wasn’t that he was being protective of the moniker, its significance and its potential, he explains, but that he was struggling to feel worthy of it.

‘Everything I was making just wasn’t good enough,’ he sneers. ‘I was in a place where I was uninspired. The next record, The Ooz, didn’t work for ages. Nothing was working. I’d come off tour in 2014, I started recording straight away and all of it was probably alright, but something wasn’t right. I think I lost my way hugely from the journey that I should have been taking, the journey that I needed to take. It was jammy, jazzy guitar stuff, big beats, it wasn’t great.’ Was that a low point? ‘One of them, but I was really enjoying getting stoned every day and playing PlayStation, so it wasn’t that low.’ His face brightens with a chuckle. ‘It was pretty high.’

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He credits the addition of saxophonist Ignacio Salvadores and spoken word artist Beatriz Ortiz Mendes to his musical family (he feels, he says, ‘a bit like a football manager’ when he discusses his team’s on-pitch chemistry) for getting The Ooz back on forward-thinking track. And there was another new arrival, a daughter in 2019, to further alter his creative mindset. ‘Now I have a conscious thing when I write songs,’ he muses. ‘I know that now in the universe, there’s a new set of ears with a completely different relationship than anyone else will ever have to me, unless I have more children. That’s definitely shifted a part of my creativity for maybe the better because it’s made me more considerate.’

Fatherhood has been an enlightening experience, he says, reflecting his own childhood back at him and giving him ‘an awareness that the traditions and clichés of genders in this country don’t have to be repeated’. But it’s not behind the lowering anger levels that some critics have discerned in Space Heavy. ‘I just don’t agree with that,’ Marshall argues. ‘I still feel that there’s a deep anger inside a lot of the composition and a deep sadness that’s there.’ His trademark melancholia is certainly still evident; he’s haunted by a past lover on ‘Seaforth’, sunk in an emotional swamp on the title track and holding a mirror to his own inadequacies on ‘Tortoise of Independency’ (‘I just do everything super slow and alone’). What’s getting him down? His eyes lower. ‘Oh everything. Everything. Nothing.’

Though he’s written songs such as ‘Alone, Omen 3’ couching depression in terms of empowerment and survival, he shrugs at the idea of 10 years of musical catharsis helping dissipate his childhood issues. ‘Health is important. But…’ He pauses, selecting his words carefully. ‘Sometimes…’ Another long pause. ‘Sometimes you need to burn stuff down.’ To rebuild? He catches my eye, clearly troubled. ‘Just to stay warm.’

Of late, Marshall’s fluctuations have been geographical. The birth of his daughter prompted a pre-pandemic move to Liverpool, where he was ‘quite lonely’ but indulged his teenage fascination with turn-of-the-century British history. ‘You go to Liverpool and see the wealth that the slave trade marked on the city, and also the obsession the Victorians had with it. And then to see where it is now in its culture.’ By necessity, Space Heavy — an eclectic and experimental record inspired by Nina Simone and Brazilian composer Caetano Veloso — was written while ‘cutting through the country’ on trains between London and the north-west. The result, perhaps, was an increased sense of solitude; the space of the title refers to the voids not between stars but between and within us all.

‘Its character is the lonely guitar,’ Marshall explains. ‘The lonely instrument and the guitar and sketchbook are the forefront of the record.’ Yet there was something freeing about working in his studio up north, away from the pressures and expectations of the metropolis artist. ‘I can compare it to the sludginess of my mind and the swamps of creativity that the other records felt like for a long time,’ he says. ‘There was lots of pain in trying to construct something in a lot of the other records. With this one, maybe it was because I had this change of lifestyle with my daughter and then there was this moment where we were playing the best we were ever playing. I had so much creative energy at that point, and I had so much clarity, I was able to marry all of the elements that I liked about my songwriting and I was able to put it more cohesively into place for myself… The decisions were really clear and I stuck to them. I found a lot of strength in that.’

At 29, Marshall has no truck with Saturn’s return. ‘I look forwards,’ he says. ‘I’ve never really enjoyed looking back.’ What does he make of the angry young man of 2013? He says that was then; now he’s back in London — because ‘just circumstance, just life’ — loving living in Rotherhithe and eyeing up his next cultural breakthrough.

‘I’m gonna make a book of poetry,’ he reveals. ‘I want to feel appreciated by some kind of pomposity, some kind of intellect that doesn’t appreciate me yet. I don’t want to cheat and make songs, I want to make poetry.’ Is he ready for the withering critiques of the high-art intelligentsia? ‘Yeah, I wanna be judged by them,’ he says. His gold tooth flashes once more. ‘And they’ll probably laugh at it.’ It is, after all, an increasingly Krule world…

King Krule headlines the Eventim Apollo on 9 and 10 October as part of the Space Heavy world tour ( eventimapollo.com )

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Archy Marshall announces Space Heavy, the fourth studio album released under his King Krule alias, due June 9th via XL Recordings. Written from 2020 to 2022 in between London and Liverpool, the album took shape over the course of Archy’s commutes between the two cities where he was splitting his time. Befitting an album quite literally written on the commute between the two places he called home, Archy found himself fascinated by the notion of “the space between” - the space haunted by dreams of love, touching a narrative of lost connection, losing people and situations to the guillotine of the universe. Space Heavy, indeed. Once written by Archy, the music was further developed by frequent collaborator Dilip Harris and long-time bandmates Ignacio Salvadores, George Bass, James Wilson, and Jack Towell. The result is an album that inhabits the deepest reaches of the subterranean sonic world that Archy has constructed over the course of his career as King Krule. In it you hear a generational artist stepping into the height of their artistic powers – the auteurism apparent on his debut 6 Feet Beneath The Moon, the shapeshifting sonic palette of The OOZ, and the primality of Man Alive! all coalesce into a wizened, dynamic body of work that reveals new elements with each listen. In line with Archy’s interest in the space between, it is an album wherein the negative space demands the same attention as the positive space. If one is willing to wade into the mire the reward is rich. FACTS Archy Marshall is a 28-year-old English singer, songwriter, and producer from Peckham, South London. Between the ages of 16 to 18, Archy released two singles under his artist moniker “Zoo Kid” and later a four-track debut EP titled U.F.O.W.A.V.E. In 2011, Marshall debuted as King Krule releasing the self-titled debut EP King Krule via New York City-based independent record label True Panther Sounds, in November of that year. Pitchfork described the record as “an important moment in time marked on a door frame-- it's an intriguing peek into the restless, youthful development of King Krule.” On 9 December 2012, the BBC announced that King Krule had been nominated for the Sound of 2013 poll, an annual poll of UK music critics and industry figures to find the most promising new music talent. King Krule released his debut studio album 6 Feet Beneath the Moon on 24 August 2013 via True Panther Sounds and XL Recordings on his 19th Birthday. The album was wellreceived by the likes of The FADER, New York Times, New Yorker, Pitchfork, Observer, NPR, NME, the Wall Street Journal, and more. His performances of “Easy Easy” and “A Lizard State” on the US chat shows Late Show with David Letterman and Conan, respectively, later that year went on to become viral sensations. Following the release of this album, Archy Marshall released A New Place 2 Drown under his own name on 10 December 2015. The album was accompanied by a book that features artwork and poetry by Archy and his older brother and long-time collaborator Jack Marshall. There was also a short film directed by Will Robson-Scott to accompany. On 13 October 2017, Marshall released his third studio album / second album as King Krule titled The Ooz. The album was released to great critical acclaim; it was named “Best New Music” by Pitchfork, third best album overall of 2017 and ranked 23/100 on Official Chart Ranking upon release. It went on to be nominated for The Mercury Prize and IMPALA's European Album of the Year Award. Following the release of the album, Archy performed his single “Dum Surfer” on BBC’s program Later...With Jools Holland. On 8 March 2018, King Krule live-streamed a performance of The Ooz to the Molten Jets YouTube channel, titled "King Krule - Live from the moon" watch it here. Archy Marshall wrote his third King Krule album Man Alive! as a direct reaction to the nonstop energy of touring The Ooz, and then partly recorded at Shrunken Heads in Marshall’s native stomping ground of Nunhead with co-producer Dilip Harris and saxophonist Ignacio Salvadores. Midway through those sessions, Archy found out he was going to become a dad for the first time and so, decided to move up to the North West of England where he completed recording the album at Eve Studios in Stockport. Man Alive! was released through True Panther Sounds, XL Recordings, and Matador Records on 21 February 2020 after being previewed with “(Don’t Let The Dragon) Draag On”, “Alone, Omen 3” and “Cellular”. It was positively received, in the 4* review, NME described it as “a compelling, expressive and at times uplifting work” that found “Marshall’s creativity is shining for all the world to see”. On 10 September 2021, King Krule released the 17-track live album You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down an album described by Pitchfork as “an intense, electric, and sometimes uncanny exhibition of Archy Marshall's ability to reimagine his songs on stage”.

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King Krule – ‘Space Heavy’ review: nomadic dispatches from a generational artist

Archy Marshall’s fourth King Krule album breaks new ground while further enriching his tried-and-trusted soundscapes

Oscar -nominated New York actor Lucas Hedges recently told The Observer about the “formative influence” he took from King Krule , adding: “Me and my best friend wanted nothing more than to be like King Krule.” Hedges certainly wasn’t alone in worshipping Archy Marshall during the latter’s rise to prominence in the early 2010s. Fuelled by the likes of his raw, precocious early single ‘Out Getting Ribs’ (released under his former moniker Zoo Kid), a self-titled EP in 2021 and his 2013 debut  ‘6 Feet Beneath The Moon’ , Marshall promptly amassed a fervent following who took his washed-out guitar sound, trademark husky vocals and withering, wise-beyond-his-years worldview to heart.

The south Londoner’s sizable fanbase may have since plateaued, but for the devoted, the excitement surrounding a new King Krule release remains. Marshall’s fourth King Krule album ‘Space Heavy’ follows on from 2020’s ‘Man Alive!’ , a tense yet arguably optimistic record (by King Krule standards, anyway) that had its potential somewhat curtailed by the misfortune of being released a month before the world went into lockdown. In the time since, Marshall has released a live album , covered John Lennon and started splitting his time between his London hometown and Liverpool.

The latter development provided the basis for ‘Space Heavy’, which took shape between 2020 and 2022 during Marshall’s commutes between the two cities. Both locations are represented on the album, from the comforting distant sound of seagulls that closes its gliding, Blur -reminiscent lead single ‘Seaforth’ (named after the titular Merseyside district) to when he “ takes the bus to Bishopsgate ” in a daze on following track ‘That Is My Life, That Is Yours’. Stark closer ‘Wednesday Overcast’ commemorates the album’s genesis, with the 28-year-old providing a typical snapshot of this nomadic creative period: “ Train to the coast, four hours once a week / In the pub corner, surrounded by creeps / They spoke of the violence and racist police… This place was forgotten from history ”.

King Krule fans who relish the prospect of getting lost in Marshall’s dreamy, sombre soundscapes will devour the string section which graces opener ‘Flimsier’, as well as the bizarrely-titled yet heartwarming ‘Tortoise Of Independency’ (“ Why do you walk with me so slow? / Said I walk like I’m in a trance… I said, ‘I just want this moment to last and to last’ ”). Or, perhaps, the more despondent ‘Empty Stomach Space Cadet’, where Marshall laments: “ And if I die / Just throw me in the trash / Without you, I’m not there ”.

Some of the more mellow offerings do have the tendency to bleed into the next, so ‘Space Heavy’’s whiplash-inducing moments provide some welcome variety. Take the moment when Marshall barks “ I’m now your girlfriend! ” on the frantic ‘Pink Shell’ before practically cackling, or the similarly spiky energy that courses through the title track in which Marshall repeats “ my plastic straw! ” as his band ups the grungy ante.

‘Space Heavy’’s highlight, though, comes on the mighty ‘Seagirl’ as Marshall welcomes New York singer-songwriter Raveena to share vocal duties. Marking the first time that a guest artist has been feature-credited on a King Krule track, Marshall and Raveena’s differing styles beautifully interweave and complement one another – Raveena’s metronomic “ take, take, take ” refrain won’t leave your head for days after your first listen.

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King Krule Carves Out a Space for Himself

Ten years into his career, the musician still sounds fresh and experimental.

A tiny Brooklyn concert venue might be the last place you’d expect to see an act like King Krule, especially since he’d headlined the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona the year prior. But there he was, facing a crowd of no more than 150 people at Sultan Room in Bushwick, bathed in blue and hot pink lights; his hollowed-out cheekbones and ginger flat top looking eerily impressive amid the shadows. The small crowd vibrated with palpable excitement, waiting to hear the latest King Krule project: a new album titled Space Heavy, out June 9. Lucky fans with quick trigger fingers who were able to snag tickets to the “Shh Tour” were treated to a preview this spring.

If you were at Sultan Room that night in April, you’d know the “shh” part was on point: between songs, you could hear a pin drop. King Krule didn’t seem to want to fill the space with salutations or commentary for the crowd. The scuzzy, lullaby-like melodies set against his signature baritone voice and lyrics reminiscent of Edgar Allen Poe’s prose said everything.

King Krule’s fan base is widespread and rabid—there are Reddit threads discussing such minutiae as which guitar pedals he uses and countless supporters who look for clues on when he’ll drop his next song. They love and consume every part of his career, his history, and how his music has evolved since Archy Marshall (his given name) stepped into the limelight at 16 years old under the moniker Zoo Kid. The crowd at Sultan Room roared with approval when Marshall returned to the stage for an encore of “Out Getting Ribs,” from King Krule’s first album, 2013’s 6 Feet Beneath the Moon . What makes Marshall even more enticing to fans is his enigmatic nature; he’s known to disappear for years between projects, eschewing a social media presence or public outings for complete and total privacy. He’s also notably averse to the press.

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That much was evident on the day we met for our planned interview. He’d just played two shows, partied the night before with childhood friends, and had another concert scheduled in upstate New York the next night. Inside a Brooklyn hotel room filled with racks of clothing, he asked to chat another day. “I’d like to get this show on the road so I can go to sleep,” he tells me.

When we meet again, it’s over Zoom weeks later, where Marshall is seated on the couch of his new home in London, his hometown. That house is one of the many places where the artist created Space Heavy , his first full-length album since 2020’s Man Alive! which he released just weeks before the coronavirus pandemic hit. “When we was performing Man Alive before it got shut off, I thought we, as a band, was in the best moment we will ever be in, in a lot of ways,” he says. “We were playing better than we’d ever played. I had so much clarity and so much force behind myself, and I felt really good physically and mentally. I used that energy to write a lot of music and to play and to have fun.”

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Marshall began working on Space Heavy during the summer of 2020. “I would spend the day outside, and then when it cooled down, I would go to my studio and have long nights there,” he says. During the next two years, Marshall traveled from his former home in Liverpool to his mother’s house in Southeast London, while booking studio time all over Britain to record.

One room in Marshall’s mother’s house that served as an integral space for making songs on Space Heavy . The musician refers to it as “my studio room.” It used to be a bathroom, he explains, with a tub right in the middle of the hardwood-floored space, but he has since converted it into a place where he can record in peace. “It’s a bit like a map of my brain,” he says. “It’s quite all over the place with different equipment. Nothing works. But I understand it.” There’s a big window on one of the walls, a couple of tables made out of old doors, his MPC, six speakers, and “kind of shitty, high-fi stag speakers.” There’s an enormous boiler in the room, which Marshall turns off when he’s recording. He insists the wires and old machinery all over the place may not have jived in someone else’s hands, but it works for him. “Only my brain could make it work. If someone else walked in there, it wouldn’t.”

While making Space Heavy , he was listening to all kinds of stuff: Transa by Caetano Veloso, Jonny Greenwood’s movie soundtracks, rock steady reggae. Although he says he has a hard time pinpointing any direct references that influenced the album, it’s one that feels like all of the experiences, lessons, and best parts of his previous projects, cherry-picked and consolidated into one piece of work.

In 2019, he had a daughter, Marina, with the photographer Charlotte Patmore. Becoming a father, he says, changed his whole world. “As I get older, more mature, more comfortable with how I approach recording music, I wanted to have a lot more precision and basically record exactly what was needed,” he tells me. “As soon as the album was done, [I wanted] to finish it, to just leave it like that. I didn’t want to create a surplus of recordings because it starts to create a bit of a fog in my brain.” (He tells me that Marina, now four years old, is currently obsessed with any track from Solange’s When I Get Home album, all versions of “Baby Shark,” and mimicking the deep growl of her father’s voice.)

Space Heavy travels between the darkest, most brutal guitar and sax sounds for which King Krule is known to songs that sound like lullabies for his toddler. The first single, “Seaforth,” begins with a description of a mysterious woman on a beach in Marshall’s dreams. There is a hopeful, loving tone to the track: “Despite the brick walls and the ceiling up here, I’m freer than the birds,” he sings.

“The song starts with talking about being emotionally attached to a memory, and it coming to haunt you,” Marshall explains. “But the song is also about my relationship with my daughter and the world around us.

“When I say ‘up here,’ I mean, ‘up here,’” he adds, pointing to his head. “So no matter what the surrounding or place you are in, at least here, you can escape.”

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Marshall grew up between a house in East Dulwich belonging to his mother (who was also formerly his manager) and his father’s flat in Peckham. He comes from a long line of artists: His grandparents and his parents were musicians, art directors, designers, and costumers. In 2013 he told The Guardian that experienced “a lot of fucking weird shit” as a child, of which his strict father was mostly unaware. At 13, Marshall refused to attend school; he recalls that his dad had to physically carry him to class, otherwise he would skip and hide in his room. He was assigned a tutor, then shuttled to two different education facilities for “permanently excluded” children.

Through all of the movement and discomfort, Marshall sought refuge in music. He was posting songs on Bandcamp as Zoo Kid when an executive from the label True Panther stumbled upon “Out Getting Ribs” in 2011 and signed him as King Krule.

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He was quickly hailed as the answer to the return of indie rock, the most exciting new act of the year. In early interviews, he spoke about how, inspired by his parents, he wanted to create music that is art, but not art for sale. “When you’re young, you get asked all these questions and you want to be perceived as intelligent, even though you’re not really intelligent,” Marshall tells me on Zoom. “But I always knew that I was going to be an artist, and someone who was going to be appreciated.”

These days, he’s changed his tune: “I’ve been trying to sell out for years. I can’t believe you don't think this record’s more poppy—that’s offended me,” he says with a chuckle. (Then he mentions another ambition: to write “a really shitty, really bad, romantic, period kind of novel. I’ll get it made on TV as well.”)

Even if he harbors secret pop star ambitions, part of what makes Marshall unique is how he’s held fast to a scrappy, experimental approach to making and performing music. The “Shh Tour” was inspired by an idle night out in Portugal between performances, with his bandmates Ignacio Salvadores and George Bass. “After Man Alive! got cut, we played a festival in England the next year, the first time we’d played in maybe a year,” he recalls. “And I felt kind of soulless. I couldn’t get into it, and that alarmed me.

“And then we played at Primavera. I felt so comfortable on stage, just really chill and in control. I missed my flight back to London from Barcelona, so I went straight to Portugal. That was nice, ‘cuz I hadn’t had a holiday for about 10 years. We was just bored, so I was like, Why don’t we borrow some instruments this week and play a random club?”

The impromptu show was “nice” but “tense.” “I was really nervous,” he remembers. He pauses, lights a match and watches it burn. He rubs his eyes, then his cheeks, then his nose, his whole face obstructed by his hands. “I hadn’t felt nervous like that for a very long time, and I quite enjoyed the looseness of it, and also the idea that it was this close to completely falling apart. The compositions should be allowed to breathe in different ways. You know, you don’t wanna fall out of love with a project: you want it to stay exciting, you want it to interest you still. And that was the way of doing it, to approach the compositions in a different space with a different energy.”

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