#krule interview

[ethan---ng]

Tyler + Archy | Tyler, The Creator & King Krule for Oyster Magazine #114

[flatfifties]

[butchboyvi]

song lyrics that remind me of vi and her story 🥊

i wanted to include song that i think could depict her emotions, especially her pitfighter arc in s2. most of these are indie rock/alt rock/post rock songs + some ambient folk, all with very gritty and emotional lyrics. i tried to think of songs that could encapsulate the feeling of despair and loneliness shown in the “nothing to lose” clip with my own personal twist i guess. also i had in mind the latest christian linke interview, where he said that we're going to see a very different version of caitlynn, stripped down of her optimism and hopefulness, and that vi is not going to recognize her anymore, and everything that this is going to entail in their relationship.

shadowboxing - julien baker

i know you were trying to help / but you're only making it worse / tell me that i shouldn't blame myself / but you can't even imagine how badly it hurts / just to think sometimes / how i think almost all the time

so break me down / fold it over your arms / like an unloaded shotgun / dismantled and harmless / even you couldn't manage to pull / the fuse from the back of my head

work out - rainbow kitten surprise

well, there's two sides to a fair fight / and you're the third man out / i was hopeful with a slow hand / and i got gunned down / well you asked me if i could grow up / but i don't know why / for i don't know much, i'm a palm frond / dying on a front porch

sour breath - julien baker

but i shouldn't have built a house in the middle of your chest / plywood boards joined at your breast / splinter in my arm where you rest your head / checking my watch till you come to bed

kiss me goodnight with your sour breath / breaks on my face like a wave of emptiness / and when i talk just taste regret / you're everything i want and i'm all you dread

ringside - julien baker

beat myself until i'm bloody / and i’ll give you a ringside seat / you say that it's embarrassing / i’m sorry that you had to see me like that

so you could either watch me drown / or try to save me while i drag you down / want to fix it but i don't know how

bloodshot - julien baker

middle of the night, all i can see are stars / pulled 'em from my eyes and your ex-lover's arms / throw hook after hook, and if i were you / after all that i did, i'd have done it to me, too

isn't like i did it on purpose / i just forget the second i learned it / everything i get, i deserve / you whisper to me, "don't you like it when it hurts?"

lefty - title fight

bad luck never leaves / your jinx just floats around / like the taste inside your mouth / or the sound when your skull cracks / feel the growing pains / it means you're growing up too fast

sleeping with the lights on - searows

we've been watching different movies / and i've been talking to myself / i’d like to think that you knew me / better than anybody else

i know you're probably standing there / wishing that i wasn't here / you know i'd follow you anywhere / so, do you honestly believe that i would let you disappear?

appointments - julien baker

i think if i ruin this / that i know i can live with it / nothing turns out like i pictured it / maybe the emptiness is just a lesson in canvases / i think if i fail again / that i know you're still listening / maybe it's all gonna turn out alright

good news - julien baker

in the thin air, my ribs creak / like wooden dining chairs when you see me / always scared that every situation ends the same / with a blank stare / me and the tap water circling the sink drain

callous - sasami

i know it's not your fault / you were born with a spoon in your throat / and a gun in your hand and a plan for yourself / i'm not grieving / it's just a matter of time and a matter of what / and you've known since birth what you like / and i'm happy for you until my face is blue

perfecto miserable - king krule

i guess i have to go / and in my silence / it's so menacing / and when i'm left alone / it's so damaging / and in this violence / the walls cave-in / i'm not able to escape it all

cold love - rainbow kitten surprise

chained to a lie, we're the same you and i, we're the same / not the same we hurt differently, but consistent in our pain / equal and equidistant in the way we laugh / to lay bear the weight of our cold love affair / recalling the days where we were, we weren't, we were

putting the dog to sleep - the antlers

unstitch that shit i've sewn / to close up the hole that tore through my skin / well, my trust in you is a dog with a broken leg / tendons too torn to beg for you to let me back in

black dog - arlo parks

i'd lick the grief right off your lips / sometimes it seems like you won't survive this / and honestly it's terrifying

famous last words - ethel cain

my lips are still burnt from kissing your face / and feverish forehead, the blood that you waste / i'm tired of this, watching it wash out of you

cementality - king krule

enter my bed through that window / i hit zero / as guiltless loveless sins flow / through me, you threw me / i descend smoothly / my concrete bed beckons / can you hear me?

out getting ribs - king krule

and lay me out across the grey / hours i should have kept at bay / well i had no chance to get away / i can't escape my own escape / even more when it's sweet to the taste / red stairs lead sense astray / i look up and seek for faith

is it really you? - loathe

face away / deal with the pain / your own way / how could they deal with the pain? / i knew / that it was mine too / and you? / is it really you?

baldpate driver - fleshwater

and a year goes by / just as silent as a tear on a face you hide / keep chasing heaven / i'm begging for the ending

nightmares - newdad

i wish you were everything i hate in the world / not the best person in it / don't want to love 'cause then i'll misbehave / don't want to think of you and feel safe / don't want to drown if there's another way / so at the end of the day / i hope you're in my nightmares / 'cause to dream of you is unfair

to rage - daughter

i left the room destroyed / oh, you know me in more ways than that / i split the walls for warmth, i shook your town / i smashed the floors / to rage, my love, back then / well, someone had to

i'd never loved a living thing so much / i was not equipped to just / sit and watch you quit on us

[goldenfiddle]

[aenesthesian]

March 2024 favourites

Throughout the past few months I've seen several people catalogue their monthly interests this way, and it's intrigued me as I don't know anyone else who likes to categorise things as much as I do. Maybe I'm just an immensely nostalgic person who is terrified of forgetting things from my youth, which, I'm not going to lie, is starting to hinder me a little! Anyways, this is my first try at this, so bear with me.

Film(s)

Saw Dune: Part Two in theatres and holy shit, what an experience that was - it truly is the blockbuster franchise of our time. However, no matter how good the movie itself was, it still left me confused as i hadn't made any effort beforehand to understand the plot. I remember feeling the exact same sense of confusion when I came out of the cinema in 2021 after seeing the first part of Dune. Turns out all I had to do was watch a single Youtube video explaining how the Dune universe works in order to be completely engrossed by the world! If only my stubbornness and refusal to give sci-fi movies the time of day, a genre i've never enjoyed much, hadn't stopped me from wanting to understand it all these years.

Another thing that kept me on my toes all month was the promo for Challengers starting, which releases in theatres next month!! I can't believe we're actually getting a love triangle on screen where ALL corners touch. What a monumental event in history indeed.

Also, special mention: Swann Arlaud, Twitter's It-Boy of the Month!!! Well, at least my TL is flooded with pictures and interviews of him, which I'm actually not mad about, not mad at all.

Bars

Usually March is a really tough month, one full of despair and stress. While that was still the case this year, I tried balancing it out by spending more time with friends. It's been lovely spending long Friday evenings in bars, even if I did feel a little distant at times. Strange how one can feel dissociated in a large group and yet still feel like they belong - it only starts being unbearable the moment you begin to feel like an anomaly that is entirely out of place. Our brains work in fascinating ways; regardless, I'm just glad to have spent more time outside of my home. Is this what enjoying my youth feels like?

Skincare

I only properly began about a week ago, but i've been having so much fun establishing, or rather enhancing my skincare routine. I used to brag about not taking care of my skin at all, which looking back was absolutely tragic. Now I'm very pleased with how far I've come in terms of taking care of my own body, at least with this little routine I have.

Music

I've been finding so much new music lately!! Over the last two weeks, there genuinely hasn't been a day where I didn't find at least two songs to my liking. Been listening to a ton of German music as well as any other genre I can think of - from rock, alternative/indie to hip-hop, rap, techno, pop, just anything that comes my way. Here are some of my favourites from this month:

babybreath - Lovesliescrushing Tommi - AnnenMayKantereit Junge - Die Ärzte Another life - PinkPantheress, Rema Subterraneans - David Bowie alone - Cavetown Tumblr Girls - G-Eazy, Christoph Andersson Will I See You Again? - Thee Sacred Souls Beautiful Boy - The Last Dinner Party Cellular (Live) - King Krule Leben leben - OG Ti Philadelphia - Matt Maltese, Searows Pretty Girls - Reneé Rap Am Weg in die Villa - BIBIZA Too Sweet - Hozier Never Wanted To Dance - Mindless Self Indulgence Lottoscheine - AnnenMayKantereit i like the way you kiss me - Artemas nichts - makko Souvenir - boygenius Ssaliva's entire discography

Books

I read How To Get A Girl Pregnant by Karleen Pendleton Jimenez, a memoir of sorts about a queer butch woman trying to get pregnant, and oh my god. The grip that book had on me was unbelievable, it simply felt so distinctly human and helped ease my anxiety about my future as a queer person a little. It's advice that straight parents cannot give their queer child, and I couldn't help but soak it all up. It's available online in pdf format, btw.

Also, I finally finished my third reread of my first All the Young Dudes copy that I started reading in November I believe? I'm afraid those characters, that story, and that fandom will always be a part of me, as it's been three years now and my fixation isn't waning one bit. Forgot to mention that I began reading The Secret History after putting it off for literally a year or two, which I'm very excited about. So far it's incredible, however pages 44 and 45 left such a deep pit in my stomach that I had to put it down for a few days. Hopefully I'll be done with it by the end of April, as next month may be the most stressful of my entire life so far lol...

Special mention

The forcemasc tumblr tag has taken over my body and mind. Not sure whether I'm willing to go into more detail, but i just. i just. i. holy fucking shit. Never has anything validated my gender identity along with my sexuality more than that goddamn tag.

A quote that defined my month

[surimiisthere]

柚木沙弥郎、小澤征爾、ダモ鈴木の悲しいニュースが続いて落ち込んでたけどking kruleのインタビュー記事教えてもらって元気でた

[musicarenagh]

Unveiling Tzion's Lagoon: A Dive into Shoegaze, Garage Rock, and Post Punk" Tzion's lagoon is a creative artist who has spent years perfecting his craft to near perfection and with every production he leaves a mark to cement his prowess when it comes to music making, and in a recent interview with Mister Styx of Musicarenagh, we got the chance to delve into his mind to explore his musical journey, inspirations and future plans. Before following his dream Tzion used to be a dance but with the help of his dance teacher who motivated him to start making music and later taught him how to play the guitar. Tzion is well known for known for his unique blend of shoegaze, garage rock, and post-punk. The name Tzion’s Lagoon is a combination of his given name and a metaphor to emphasize on his dense and dark production style, reflects their artistic vision. In the interview Tzion’s Lagoon was asked about his main ispiration and his response was mind boggling, this is what he had to say “Im a Christian so id really say God and how i seen him everyday in my life and the world around me is my biggest inspiration, within that id say things ive experienced good and bad, stories ive heard good and bad, and the human experience inspires me and helps me create things.” His latest single Evergreen 01 has a lot to say about his musical style and his persona, join us as we get to know the man behind the pseudonym Tzion’s lagoon Listen to Evergreen 01 below https://open.spotify.com/track/6w3mFzLo5R9k1Pu4uQb5gH Follow Tzion's Lagoon on Spotify Instagram What is your stage name I am tzion's lagoon Is there a story behind your stage name? Tzion is my name, the lagoon part is because i wanted the production part to sound really dense and dark, like a swamp more than a lagoon but lagoon sounds better i think. What was the role of music in the early years of your life? It's something thats always been a part of my life honestly, since i was a kid ive always been making songs, kind of, they haven’t always been particularly good though. Are you from a musical or artistic family? Somewhat, my mom and dad sang in the choir at church, but my family generally wasnt full of music artist in the sense that i am. Who inspired you to be a part of the music industry? I used to be a dancer, and my dance teacher got me started making music and playing guitar, so thats really were a started on the road of being in the music industry. [caption id="attachment_52829" align="alignnone" width="2000"] Unveiling Tzion's Lagoon: A Dive into Shoegaze, Garage Rock, and Post Punk"[/caption] What musician do you admire most and why? I think my favorite artist is King Krule, i like the way stands out in indie music. From his voice to his production, and it also cool how different his live sound is from his studio releases. Did your style evolve since the beginning of your career? Yes my style has changed a lot, i started out making really lofidelity indie music, like a really muddy and washed out, and now i make shoegaze and garage rock stuff, still somewhat muddy but id say in a more tasteful way. Who do you see as your main competitor? Honestly no one, i think competition particularly in indie/alternative genres is super counter productive. What are your interests outside of music? I skate a little bit sometimes, but music is a pretty invasive hobby. It comes into alot of different aspects of life. If it wasn't a music career, what would you be doing? I used to dance, and i used to box, so maybe one of those, but i'd probably be at some corporate job or something, maybe id be a missionary. What is the biggest problem you have encountered in the journey of music? Honestly myself, figuring out how to navigate overthinking and underthinking music. If you could change one thing in the music industry, what would it be? I dont really know, i think everything comes with good and bad sides regardless. But i think the way that genuine art is sometimes very under appreciated sucks, so maybe that somehow.

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[turnupthevolumebelgium]

KING KRULE

QUOTE OF THE DAY

27 September 2023

[double-croche1]

[PLAYLIST] JUILLET 2023 (1/2)

En avant pour l'exploration avec la nouvelle playlist ! 🦑 LE LIEN : 🌀 https://tinyurl.com/2674msh9 🌀 Au programme : Slowdive / Anohni / Hand Habits / Youth Lagoon / Anna St. Louis / Julie Byrne / Saint DX / Kit Sebastian / Faye Webster / King Krule / Puma Blue / The Lemon Twigs / Chai / Woods / Motorama / Angelo De Augstine / Nicholas Allbrook / The Drums / Westerman / John Andrews & the Yawns / Moses Sumeny / Beach Fossiles / Devandra Banhart / Georgia Gets By / Jess Williamson / Mazey Haze / Sun Entire / Beck feat. Phoenix / Moodoïd / Paula / Jayda G EXCLU : Interview de Julie Byrne bientôt sur cette page ! 🌟 Crédits illustration :  ‘Les Herbes sèches' de Nuri Bilge Ceylan (en salles le 12 juillet) Bonne écoute ! ♬

[charlotteswebbbbb]

What's the vibe? #26

News

Train strikes in July - 20, 22, 29

14 day heatwaves in July?

10 years of PC Music - "After a decade of activity, 2023 will be PC Music’s final year of new releases. Following that, the label will be dedicated to archival projects and special reissues"

100 minute mix by them! Quite influential as these group of people defined hyper pop

Venice Biennale 2024 theme: Foreigners Everywhere. It is from from 20 April to 24 November 2024 (pre-opening 17, 18, 19 April) at the Giardini, the Arsenale and various venues in Venice.

sorry, did you know Gucci does cocktails?

Jacquemus SS24 - inspired by Princess Di in Versaille

Beauty

some of this is the amazing work of Athena Paginton :)

Tweets of the week:

Reading List:

Why Gen Zers are looking to Europe to achieve their American dream (insider)

Gregg Araki: ‘It’s disconcerting how topical The Doom Generation is’ (Dazed)

Weirdo Milano street style (Dazed)

An Album is a Tragedy: Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet (032c)

some good Blackbird Spyplanes

(I still feel like them and Throwing Fits are extremely basic in terms of analysis? Like they're hitting the point but not going *in*. Where are the black fashion substackers plssss.)

Is the death of thrifting upon us??

Is Ssense hurting the cool-clothes ecosystem?

Burn the junk your past selves left behind (King Krule interview - also King Krule is leaning into fashion verticals this album cycle, prob a signal of one, his stateliness and two, there's no money left in music/music press/or interesting enough music press!)

Please also read the new issues of Vestoj, Kaleidoscope, Capsule and Dazed. Thank you!

[kingkrulefan]

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[underachievers-please-try-harder]

Interview // King Krule

Cover story for Issue 140 of Loud and Quiet. Read online.

[sinceileftyoublog]

Clinic Interview: Shambolic and Chaotic

Photo by Rhian Askins

BY JORDAN MAINZER

"It’s like they never left” is certainly an overused adage, but for Clinic, it’s remarkably true. The Liverpool indie rock band who broke out with their beloved debut Internal Wrangler in 2000 last released a record 7 years ago--before Friday, that is. Wheeltappers and Shunters, named after an absurd 70′s variety show of a similar name, is perhaps the best distillation of Clinic ever put to record, 60′s inspired in its aesthetic, uniquely British in its outlook. The album’s upbeat and fun to listen to, and from a broad standpoint, it allows Adrian “Ade” Blackburn and company to capture the spirit of England today, cynical about the future of the country but carrying on nonetheless.

Blackburn spoke to me over the phone last week about the new album, working with engineer Dilip Harris (Mount Kimbie, King Krule, Sons of Kemet), and looking back at the band’s old records. Read the conversation below, edited for length and clarity.

Since I Left You: How does it feel to release your first record in 7 years?

Ade Blackburn: It felt really good to release another record, because, as you say, it’s been 7 years. We’ve done a few other bits and pieces in between, but to get to the point of releasing a record is great.

SILY: You’ve talked about why you wanted to make the type of record you made in terms of the times that we’re in--you wanted it to be an escape and took the title from a 70′s variety show. What about the show made you want to name the album after it?

AB: The variety show was really chaotic. It was set in a working men’s social club. I thought that kind of summed up what the mood of things are like in Britain a bit. Shambolic and chaotic, but still, people try to enjoy themselves.

SILY: Having not released an album in 7 years, when the political climate has, in many people’s eyes, flipped on its head, did you feel like you needed to respond in some way?

AB: Yeah, I think that’s right. We didn’t want to directly make the album about that. But this has been building up for 20 years, so it’s naturally going to be something that crept into the lyrics.

SILY: Aesthetically, Wheeltappers and Shunters is even more retro in terms of your garage pop aesthetic. What influenced that?

AB: It is more so than Free Reign; that was a bit more of an electronic, jazzier sound. With this, one thing we were determined to do was make it fun sounding. With that, we probably went back to some old rock and roll sounds. A bit more carefree than thought out too much.

SILY: The first couple songs already released to the public, “Laughing Cavalier” and “Rubber Bullets”--did the label want those as singles, or was it you who thought they really encapsulated the feeling of the record?

AB: I think they cover a couple of sides to the record. One’s got more of a circus, variety, character to it. The other one’s a bit more punk, rock and roll sounding. Sometimes, in the past we’d only have one single, but when you have two, it gives people more of an idea of what the album is.

SILY: The album is not monochrome at all--it really has many sides to it.

AB: Yeah, we just wanted to keep the album short to a point, to not see it as a collection of songs but an entertaining half hour by any means.

SILY: What’s the story behind the video for “Laughing Cavalier”?

AB: The video came through Domino. It was [Joseph May] who did it in London. He had done the one for “Rubber Bullets” as well. It’s got almost a British sort of theme to it. They both have neanderthal elements mixed with some circus stuff.

SILY: “Fairyboat of the Mind” really stood out to me from an instrumental standpoint. Can you talk a little about the structure and instrumentation on that song? And who’s doing the vocal harmonies behind you?

AB: We hadn’t really done an instrumental like that for quite a while. We wanted to get back to mixing in clarinet and the harmonica. The spoken word bits on it are Jonathan Hartley, the keyboardist, and the backing vocals are Brian Campbell, the bass player. That again was a fun thing to do. It stops and starts where you don’t want it to.

SILY: It’s off-kilter.

AB: It’s quite a haunting melody. It reminds me of a David Axelrod song.

SILY: Do you have a favorite track on the record?

AB: I think probably “D.I.S.C.I.P.L.E” is my favorite. The more sort of full-on punk type songs are the ones I feel most confident about. Everything doesn’t have to be too precise. It can be rough around the edges. We could record it really quickly.

SILY: How did you come to work with Dilip Harris?

AB: That was through Domino. We always record ourselves in Hartley’s home studio. I spoke to Dilip, and he seemed to have a really good grasp of what we were going for. He wanted to be quite playful putting it together. He put more effects on it than we would have.

SILY: Had you heard any of his work before working with him?

AB: I hadn’t heard a lot, but I had heard some of it. It’s quite a mixed bag, isn’t it? He’s done some mainstream stuff and some lo-fi stuff. I liked the fact he had done both because we wanted a bit of both. We didn’t want it to be too lo-fi sounding.

SILY: What’s the artistic inspiration behind the cover art?

AB: That cover art was from an original album called The Sounds & Songs of Britain, which came out in 1975. That’s got various sorts of sound effects from the countryside, and it’s also got the town criers you hear at the end of “Be Yourself”. It’s got bits of dialogue and sound effects we used, and we realized the cover was pretty perfect for our album, so we just decided to use that.

SILY: Have you played these songs live?

AB: We played a BBC Radio 6 Music event in March. That was the first thing we had done. But we’re not playing live until June.

SILY: What’s the approach you’re taking in adapting the songs to the stage?

AB: We play quite a few off the new LP. It’s usually what you’ve been rehearsing. They sound a bit more raw and punky. They sound like they’ve got a lot of life in them.

SILY: When you come up with a setlist and you’re playing a lot of new songs, when you pick from your back catalog, do you play what fans want to hear, or do you pick songs that you think will go well with the new material?

AB: We always try to do quite a lot of what fans and people would want to hear. We do half a set of that, and then throw in a few obscure album tracks or B-sides, and then new songs. You always try to avoid making it difficult for the audience. It should be entertaining.

SILY: Do you have any U.S. tour dates coming up?

AB: Possibly. We’re looking at that at the moment. It would be in the autumn. It’s been 7 years since we’ve played, so we should get some dates together.

SILY: Is there anything you’ve been listening to, reading, or watching lately that’s caught your attention?

AB: The last book that I read were Room at the Top by John Braine, which is set in the late 50′s in Britain. I’m always drawn to those British writers. [laughs]

SILY: Does what you’re listening to when you write and record have any influence on what you’re writing and recording?

AB: What I find is that, say, what I’ve listened to in the previous year then would influence me when I’m putting songs together. Once I’m actually recording, it has the opposite effect. If I go in and record something quite melodic, I’ll want to go home and listen to something raw.

SILY: Looking back at some of your old albums, do you find you still connect with them? Is it easy to inhabit the headspace you were in when you made them?

AB: [pauses] I think I know pretty much a lot of the time what headspace I was in. Some of it, I listen to and can’t understand why I went in a certain direction. But the majority of the time, I can still relate to what the ideas were at the time. After we made the albums, we didn’t listen back to them. It’s only more recently we’ve listened back to them. I was really quite pleased. They were a good listen.

SILY: Do you think you would ever reissue or do a retrospective or tour a classic album like Internal Wrangler?

AB: Possibly. I do like that. I think we’ve got quite a lot of demos and different songs and alternatives and instrumental pieces we did for Internal Wrangler. So we could certainly piece something together.

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