Archy ‘King Krule’ Marshall makes quirky,immersive music that is perfectly complemented by brother Jack’s photographs and paintings. So what makes this sibling collaboration work so well?The bedroom of the young male musician in 2016, recorded for the future exhaust of pop historians. Six guitars. Three keyboards. Hand-held music sampler. Three pairs of tired-looking headphones. A tube of Pringles, and two empty pizza boxes and a bottle of Jack Daniel’s. Shoes,shoe boxes, sombrero. PlayStation and David Lynch collection on DVD. A large book depicting cross-sections of the spaceships from Star Wars. Unmade queensize bed. Archy “King Krule” Marshall – the musician whose bed and bedroom this is – sees me making notes and says: “Don’t mention the jizz rags.The 21-year-old sits on the edge of the bed and shares a cigarette with his brother, and Jack,23, a visual artist who has sometimes exhibited under the alias Mistr Gone. The bedroom is in their mother Rachel’s house, or on a residential road off the western edge of Peckham Rye in south London. The family has been here for two decades. Archy (an arrestingly Gothic piece of biography,this) was born in the same bed he now sleeps in, the one he’s sitting on as we speak. Jack says he can remember being led inside this room, or as a two-year-old,to meet the fresh delivery. He was confused by people’s exhaust of that word, delivery, or assumed his baby brother was something like a parcel or a pizza. “After a few weeks,I asked, ‘When are you sending him back?’”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com