The dreaminess and disorientation in King Krule's music is evident on set-opener "Flimsier." Washed-out ambient electronics flood the foreground before fingerpicked electric guitars rein it in. Much of Space Heavy sounds like Marshall is trying to blueprint a world that doesn't yet exist and may, in fact, be undiscoverable. He attempted - and largely succeeds - to chart the spaces between what we feel and see, between what we recognize and what we discover. Traveling made him aware of, and obsessed with, existing in "the spaces between." He began writing songs about mental space, physical space, cosmic and spiritual space, and the various psychological and emotional spaces existing between humans, as well as the self we see in the mirror. The songs on Space Heavy were written as Marshall rail-commuted between residences in London and Liverpool. Remarkably, despite becoming a more insightful lyricist, a better guitarist, and a more focused songwriter, Marshall's approach hasn't really changed all that much save for being even looser, with production architecture that is almost dreamlike in the sense of drift. With that offering on the cusp of turning ten in August, King Krule delivers Space Heavy, their fourth long-player. Punters admired Marshall's brutally honest, outsider storytelling and biting, haunted, social observations. In 2013, Archy Marshall's King Krule released 6 Feet Beneath the Moon, a loopy homemade collection of tunes that jammed together bits from jazz, post-punk, hip-hop, indie rock, bedsit EDM, and even bossa nova.
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