![]() By the age of 18 he’d changed his name to King Krule, released an EP via True Panther, and been nominated for the BBC Sound of. ![]() Songs like Out Getting Ribs and Baby Blue were vivid and lyrical distillations of metropolitan dreams and nightmares that made critics delirious. The world had been waiting for an album from Archy Marshall ever since he appeared on Bandcamp in 2010 as Zoo Kid: a red-haired 16-year-old guitarist with the sandblasted vocals of a 74-year-old whisky drinker. As the taxi to the hotel sped through Kowloon, he pressed up against the window and observed the hugeness around him, skinny soaring buildings disappearing like stalks into the clouds, as people leaned out from vertigo-inducing heights to casually hang their washing.Īt the window of the room in his skyscraper hotel, he gazed all the way down to earth onto the city and all the roofs below, and all the water and mud that had gathered on those roofs, and thought to himself, “ I’m pretty fucking lucky.” It was a moment he had almost imagined a year earlier, when writing his debut album, Six Feet Beneath the Moon. By this point Archy and his band had become vampires, nocturnal animals, blooming moonflowers touring the planet, playing shows every night, partying until the sun rose, and then waking up in places like this. But as he peered down onto the pastel blue sea, dotted with little red ships and industrial cranes, he felt visually stimulated – his eyes had never seen a landscape like Hong Kong’s. ![]() Something about floating through the air at 900km/hour in an aluminium tube feels unnatural to him, and this was his 22nd flight of the year. It was dusk as the plane began to descend over the South China Sea towards land, and the sun was gently climbing a curve through the sky.
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