King Krule: The OOZ Vinyl 2LP
$35.95
<p><i>If 2013's <a href="https://www.turntablelab.com/search?type=product&q=6+feet+beneath+the+moon" target="_blank">6 Feet Beneath The Moon</a> was simply an effort to get proper studio recordings of the tween ballads</i> <a href="https://www.turntablelab.com/search?type=product&q=Archy+Marshall" target="_blank"><strong>Archy Marshall</strong></a> wrote in his early <a href="https://www.turntablelab.com/search?type=product&q=Zoo+Kid" target="_blank"><strong>Zoo Kid</strong></a> days, <em>The OOZ</em> finds <a href="https://www.turntablelab.com/search?type=product&q=king+krule" target="_blank"><strong>King Krule</strong></a> fully dug in and spreading his wings. Where guitars were front and center for the duration of <em>6 Feet</em> (probably to make some sort of statement in the post-chillwave era), on this sophomore outing, Marshall seems much more comfortable showing his hip-hop and dance music influences. His mesmerizing patchwork of celestial pads, <a href="https://www.turntablelab.com/search?type=product&q=dj+premier" target="_blank"><strong>Primo</strong></a>-style sample chops, street sax, post-punk beats and jazz guitar licks is tactfully interspersed with pirate radio ambience and <a href="https://www.turntablelab.com/search?type=product&q=Burial" target="_blank"><strong>Burial</strong></a>-esque rainfall. Peep him flexing his incredible range on codeine bossa nova joint “Logos,” basement punk show cannonball “Emergency Blimp” and sublime jazz meditation “The Cadet Leaps”; all mesmerizing. He settles into a bizarrely addictive Monster Mash flow on album highlight “Dum Surfer,” urgently modulating up and down octaves while trading bars with a spooky alter ego. Marshall may only be 24, but <em>OOZ</em> is clearly the work of a grown man. In fact, the only time he shows his age is in thinking “Czech One” would make for a clever song title (sounds like something I would have thought was cute at 16 only the music would have been 100x worse; alternatively, this kid wrote “Out Getting Ribs” when he was 16). Marshall builds a world you can completely lose yourself in, with loads more atmosphere than <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">6FBTM</span></em> (think <a href="https://www.turntablelab.com/search?&q=Basic%20Channel&filter=Category_fq:%22Vinyl%20Records%20%2F%20Music%22" target="_blank"><strong>Basic Channel</strong></a> producing <a href="https://www.turntablelab.com/search?type=product&q=The+Clash" target="_blank"><strong>The Clash</strong></a>). Black double vinyl pressing housed in gatefold jacket; recommended.</p> <ul> <li>black double vinyl pressing</li> <li>housed in gatefold jacket w/ printed inner sleeves</li> <li>digital download included</li> <li>music label: True Panther Sounds 2017</li> </ul> <h6>reviewed by hannibal chew 10/2017</h6>