Revealed last spring, the South East London don’s latest moniker finds him linking up once more with his brother Jack “and a couple more people who are yet to be named.” The only track to be revealed thus far is ‘Untitled’ ( 44 mins into his NTS Radio takeover), a probing, swamp-y slice of country-infused noise rock that finds Archy barking about how he “stole your girlfriend”. Known since the age of 15 as a preternaturally wise and unpredictable songwriter, Mr. You can practically hear him learning the ins and outs of home recording those barbed guitars which would go on to be King Krule’s calling card. Archy Marshall, the enigmatic South London singer best known as King Krule, is a creature of the night. While many of the tracks went on to form ‘6 Feet Beneath the Moon’, there’s an early, scratchy, nervous quality to these recordings that breathes in a whole new life. Marshall’s early stage name could be found frequenting the open mics and pool bars of South East London in the early 2010s. Want to track King Krule’s progression? Dive into Zoo Kid. It’s the best evidence to date of his jackrabbit mindset, jumping between styles and genres with ease. One minute he’s exhaling soft, ambient soundscapes on ‘batch1’, the next it’s Mike Skinner-aping lyrical prowess on ‘This Just Life, is alright’. Occupying a now-dormant Soundcloud, DJ JD Sports is the hardest of all Archy’s outlets to pin down. It occupies a middle ground between ‘A New Place 2 Drown’’s hazy post-dubstep and the more grizzled vocals of his King Krule work. His April 2016 Boiler Room set under the Breathtaker moniker (above) was filmed round the corner from Peckham’s near-iconic Bussey Building. That West Coast percussion is cast aside in favour of – in Archy’s own words – “ new electronic garbage”. The Jekyll to Beatmaker’s Hyde, Edgar The Breathtaker is an altogether more grimy affair.
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