Man Alive!

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AlbumFeb 21 / 202014 songs, 41m 52s
Art Rock Post-Punk Neo-Psychedelia
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The lanky London outlaw with cement-mixer lungs delivers his most anguished album yet, in which impending fatherhood collides with his habitual torments.

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Fresh from escaping London and becoming a father, a renewed and refreshed Archy Marshall has produced the most uplifting King Krule album yet

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Archy Marshall leaves The Ooz for The Dirge on new record

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The work of an artist in transition.

King Krule diehards might have been somewhat distressed upon hearing in early 2019 that their number one gutter misanthrope and his partner had become parents.

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Near the end of his third album as King Krule, Archy Marshall croons about a "putrid ooz" that threatens to consume him whole. It's a signif...

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Three years ago, Archy Marshall (aka King Krule) announced himself as one of this generation's most omnipresent and perceptive songwriters. On 2017's The Ooz, the then-23-year-old offered us a scuzzy, messy, caustic glimpse at his London-centric existence

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Archy Marshall AKA King Krule, Edgar the Beatmaker, The Return of Pimp Shrimp, DJ JD Sports, can legitimately claim to be one of the UK’s most

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King Krule's Man Alive! is a step further into the depths of Archy Marshall’s recesses, following on from 2017’s acclaimed The Ooz.

7 / 10

King Krule's 2017 album The OOZ clarified what was well-known to people who had tracked the London wunderkind's every release and moniker for six years:...

6.5 / 10

Man Alive! by King Krule, album review by Adam Williams. The full-length comes out on January 21st vi True Panther/Matador Records

The south Londoner’s third album offers flashes of brilliance but is weighed down by a tone of gravelly gloom

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