The OOZ

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AlbumOct 13 / 201719 songs, 1h 6m 24s
Art Rock
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9.0 / 10

The producer born Archy Marshall crafted The OOZ to be alien and timeless. It is the richest and most immersive album the London singer-songwriter has made yet, under any name.

D+

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4 / 10

King Krule's second album 'The Ooz' is a record strewn with familiar depressive lyrical motifs and freaky little touches.

7 / 10

King Krule takes a minute to step back and really appreciate the beauty within the mire.

9.1 / 10

An intoxicating (sometimes nearly literally) collection, likely to imperil the cultivation of many new fans for Marshall by…

It has fine moments, but might have benefited from some brutality in the cutting room.

Archy Marshall debuted as Zoo Kid when he was an actual kid and released his acclaimed first album -- under the presumably self-bestowed title King Krule -- before he turned 20.

8 / 10

It's been four years since the last King Krule album. The artist did drop 2015's A New Place 2 Drown under his birth name, Archy Marshall, b...

Emerging from a counterpoise between The BRIT School and the avant-garde, it’s hardly surprising that the urbane cool of King Krule aka Archy Marshall has made him a subcultural celebutante.

8.5 / 10

The long-awaited return from London's King Krule is something to behold. Anyone who has spent time living in London, walking its littered estates, will recognise that The Ooz drips with the concrete cynicism the city breeds.

9 / 10

‘The Voice of a Generation’. It’s a tag that is banded around with relative ease by critics and more often than not an all too heavy a

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6 / 10

The prolific Archy Marshall has put aside his other alias' to make a second King Krule LP 'The Ooz' - it's a sprawling, wandering second album.

8 / 10

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8.0 / 10

The OOZ by King Krule: Our review finds King Krule a wild artist that strikes gold, while occasionally repeating himself.

Archy Marshall’s second album as King Krule is a wilfully idiosyncratic outpouring of songs about depression and bodily fluids

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A sprawling morass of sound that seems to spread its diseased tendrils in all directions.