6 Feet Beneath The Moon
Armed with a blood-freezing voice, the 19-year-old Londoner Archy Marshall recorded his haunting early songs on a malfunctioning laptop, first as Zoo Kid then as King Krule. His Rodaidh McDonald-produced debut for True Panther/XL sounds roomier and warmer, but it's the same chipped-brick urban landscape Marshall prowled through on his previous work.
An album of mixed emotions, a complex work of focused, driven highs and meandering, confusing lows. A perfect summation of teenage years, then?
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King Krule's 6 Feet Beneath the Moon features one Archy Marshall, a 19-year-old with the baby-faced looks of a young Ron Howard, who possesses a huge growling baritone that is earthshaking and soulful.
Switching his alias to the ageless King Krule, Marshall proved to be a prodigious songwriter and musician with his well-received 2011 self-titled EP and last year's "Rock Bottom" single.
Album review: Clash reviews '6 Feet Beneath The Moon', the anticipated, XL-released debut album from King Krule, aka inspired teenager Archy Marshall.
<p>Don't expect conventional songs – or singing – from the precocious Archie Marshall, and just prepare to be blindsided by this remarkable debut, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong></p>
King Krule's '6 Feet Beneath the Moon' feels incomplete and rushed, with the artist cramming in as many of his ideas as he can.
King Krule "6 Feet Beneath The Moon" Review for Northern Transmissions by Heather Welsh. "6 Feet Beneath The Moon" comes out August 24th on XL/True Panther.
There are some great moments on Archy Marshall's debut album, but there's a sense of incomplete brilliance to it all, writes <strong>Harriet Gibsone</strong>