The new album builds on the work of the first, developing themes and developing ideas. ![]() It was good to play music again with someone organically.” “When I met him he changed a lot of how I saw music, I was kind of wrapped up in working boxes and samplers and laptops and I was staring at screens too much. “I felt like I was in a rut for so long, and then someone like that came along and gave me something to throw stuff at and try and impress.” Similarly, the arrival of Salvadores also changed the way that Marshall was working. It was like a different environment, different surrounding,” he explains of one of the unlikely collaborators. “This girl was staying with me from Barcelona. One was a girl from Barcelona, the other was a musician called Ignacio Salvadores, who plays saxophone on the album. Then all of a sudden I scrapped them and was like ‘fuck them, I’m not going to think about them, let me start something fresh.’” One of the reasons for the break from his existing efforts was the arrival of two people from Spain who managed to spark Marshall to life. “I had all these compositions and I didn’t know what to make of them,” he says, “they just haunted and taunted me. The road to The Ooz wasn’t always simple, and had false dawns as Marshall worked to get it finished. The last few months have seen a string of single releases, performances in tiny venues in New York, Los Angeles and London and, finally, the upcoming release of his second album, The Ooz. “It was interesting because slowly it was developing and still reaching out to different parts of the world,” he recalls, “so I guess when I came back, and it was a long time - it was like three, four years - when I came back there were a lot of people waiting for me.” Marshall, or rather King Krule, is definitely back. ![]() As well as winning over famous fans, the record also chimed with an entire generation of young people, both in Marshall’s native South London as well and on the other side of the world. While he was away, Six Feet Beneath The Moon continued to spread around the world. It was a creative holiday.” Those different projects saw him collaborate closely with his brother, hosting a joint art exhibition in 2014 and releasing their multimedia project the following year. “I guess I saw myself maturing, because I was mixing mediums and we were working towards different stuff and different outcomes. Taking a break - from King Krule at least - wasn’t all bad, and Marshall recognizes how it figures in what he’s doing now. “I’d done exhibitions, done the book, another record, was constantly and still am constantly working with other musicians from my area, facilitating their music,” he says of the hiatus, “but, symbolically for me, it was a void, even though I was creating, even though I was doing things. There was just so much good music coming out and I was just nothing to do with it and I wanted to be a part of it, and I wanted to be something good.”ĭespite feeling musically redundant, Marshall continued working at other projects. ![]() “I was unhappy with myself and what I was creating,” he says, “and when that happens you feel like you’re useless and anything you do is shit. That time away from King Krule was clearly hard for Marshall. But, temporarily at least, the King Krule project seemed to be over. He continued to work, releasing a joint art and music project with his brother, debuting the odd track at live performances and producing for other artists (he recently revealed he produced for Earl Sweatshirt and that he had a scrapped collaboration with Frank Ocean). I wasn’t prepared for that whole thing where you spend so much time personally with something and then all of a sudden all these motherfuckers can touch it, and listen to it, and have their opinion on it and critique it, and analyze it and have their own experience of it.”Īfter the success of the album - Beyoncé was a fan and Willow Smith covered the lead single - Marshall stepped back from the spotlight. “I guess I always believed in my own music,” he says, “so I was kind of expecting it in a way. Discussing that early success in a pub not far from the house he was born and raised in, his new status didn’t exactly surprise him.
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