Home Home Podcasts Podcasts Library Cancel. Stream ad-free with Prime Music on mobile, desktop, and tablet. But for now, A New Place 2 Drown will hit the spot.Īlbum's defining quote: ' We just smoke and let days roll by. Listen to your favourite songs from A New Place 2 Drown by Archy Marshall now. Here's to hoping I get that genre-defying masterpiece next time. But still, I awaited those bits and beat tape fragments as much as anything released officially, so to have anything new in any regard is something to rejoice, I guess. It feels more at home with the freebies he used to give away as DJ JD Sports than it does as a proper album. A New Place 2 Drown evokes a septic world filled with flickering halogen bulbs, sticky synth keys, and corroded outputs. Instead of taking a grand step forward after 6 Feet Beneath the Moon, Archy has modestly let loose a snippet of brilliance.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with A New Place 2 Drown, it just feels a little short on elevation. GIRL, this place is evil!' It gives me chills how he's able to do that. Still, the last third or so of this thing is absolutely ace when he declares that, ' She won't forget me ever' and then goes on to blurt out, ' Something in the water distorted her mind. So, here we are, left with a stopgap album that is just simply very good, instead of monumental. But the song craft, the heart, the soul, the guitar playing (!!!!), it's missing here. It's Archy being himself, perhaps the most personal work he's yet presented - it has been released under his real name, after all. Stuttering, post-dubstep rhythms and dreamy melodic synths and keyboard washes fade in and out of each other for about fourty minutes while Archy spits a few bars here and there (he is my favorite MC, after all) and overall, I'm sure most of it was lots of fun to create. It's a mishmash of Archy's electronic side. And it does sound the piece of something greater, like it's not quite all there. It is simply the soundtrack to a short film and art book, mainly produced by his older brother Jack Marshall (who has also used the name Mr. And, to be completely clear, it is not new music from King Krule. I knew he would eventually release something that didn't immediately floor me and I was perhaps anticipating it even more than the next thing that would.Ī New Place 2 Drown was announced very lowkey, rather uncharacteristically, over his rarely used Instagram profile. So, the inevitability of him not batting a thousand with me has been in the back of my mind for some time. It's like he says it, or plays it and I say, 'Yeah, that.' Because we share such similar musical backgrounds, I feel he speaks volumes about my life that I've just not yet been able to convey. The kinship and connection I feel through his music is inexplicable - and yet, totally genealogical, and therefore, sensible. It's a rare musical stew that makes for a combo that has molded me into the person that I am today. We share a love of all things jangly, boom-bap and introspective all the same. When Archy Marshall releases new music, my world stops.

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