Koko, London
A dizzying mix of styles, raw intensity and endless heartache give the south Londoner’s performance undeniable clout
Archy Marshall appears as though out of nowhere, stepping out of the violet-lit murk to the microphone – a flash of white electric guitar, pale features, red hair and a glimpse of white socks. Released last month, his arresting second album under the name King Krule is titled The Ooz, thanks to its debt to bodily gunk and entropy.
The subdued lighting – also available in sickly green, deep-sea blue and suffocating red – fits. For one track, around the time of (A Slide In) New Drugs, the six-strong band play in near-darkness. The set is divided between King Krule’s more meandering, impressionistic songs – like The Ooz’s Lonely Blue, full of startling, downbeat beauty – and moshpit detonations, such as the lurching, zombie-punk of this album’s most commercial single, Dum Surfer.
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