Space Heavy by King Krule

Space Heavy is King Krule's fourth album under that name and Archy Marshall's fifth overall, released by XL Recordings and Matador on 9 June 2023. He wrote and recorded it between 2020 and 2022, much of it on the move, commuting between London and Liverpool, where he had settled with his partner Charlotte Patmore after the birth of their child.

That back-and-forth is the whole record. Marshall got hooked on the idea of the gap between places, and the songs keep circling it: lost connections, people and situations slipping away, stretches of empty space left open on purpose next to the dense bits. His usual smear of punk jazz, trip hop and post-punk gloom is still there, but it drifts more than it lunges. "Seaforth" went out first, in April, alongside the album's announcement.

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