On “Has It Hit,” a song released in 2010 and footnoted with the phrase “The climax of the eyes of the world and the view of a very depressing future,” a then-sixteen-year-old Marshall distilled teenage angst and despair to great effect. But, prodigious writing aside, there was also the Voice, an almost-unbelievable baritone through which Marshall proved particularly adept at channelling the sneering concerns of his generation. Marshall’s simple, evocative songwriting and penchant for blending musical references-dexterous guitar mixed with the looseness of jazz fusion, found samples, and hip hop breaks and even rhymes-made him stand out. The sounds of his youth, which he describes as a mish-mash of the eclectic music revered by his mother, punk that trickled down from his older brother, and a South London love of hip hop, have come to be his calling card.Ī smattering of songs released online as Zoo Kid and, later, a breakout EP-released as King Krule in 2011-earned him the Internet’s attention. ![]() Marshall wrote his first song at the age of eight-in 2002, the same year the Streets’ game-changing Original Pirate Material was released-and spent much of middle and high school toying around with instruments, recording his attempts at music in his mother’s Dulwich, London, home. Marshall, better-known as King Krule (or Zoo Kid or Edgar the Beatmaker or DJ JD Sports, depending on what day it is), is an artist’s artist: a committed-to-honesty, keep-it-real type who leaves it all on the page, whether that page is a post-punk-inspired song or an abstract watercolor. The nineteen-year-old isn’t a brat, just very much a teenager with no compulsion to mince words. Archy Marshall doesn’t sugarcoat anything.
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