King Krule - Czech one

Just like Kate Bush, Fiona Apple, The XX and Lorde, Archy Marshall started creating great music before he turned 20 years old. Under his own names, or under his pseudonyms, Zoo Kid and King Krule, he has crafted haunting and experimental tracks that explore teen heartbreak in a way that resembles more Arthur Rimbaud than Taylor Swift.

For Czech One, he creates a musical noir atmosphere, with the jazzy piano and the sax in the background, but the electronic effects make it a surreal experience that could very well soundtrack an episode of David Lynch's Twin Peaks. His grave voice and his references doesn't really correlate with this thin ginger babyfaced who is in charge, making that dissonance also a part of the mystery behind his project,

But the way he has with words it's the central part of the project, they could be read as a piece of poetry and we would be founding structural, rhythmic and figurative richness. He takes the figure of a tragic romantic hero writing verses in his beloved's front door, it could be Byron the one who says "You asked me what her name was called but I found it hard to write", the links between unrequited love and tragic death are immediate as his claims "One time I was impaled forlorn and thrown into a pile".

It's dark, almost sinister, a catharsis that goes back in time and remind us that for some people, having the heart broken is the biggest tragedy that they've experienced in their life, and their inexperience doesn't have to be an excuse to make it trivial. Marshall, instead, uses it to go into a stream of consciousness that is able to reveal the depth of his feelings, but that also will draw him closer to a nihilist understanding of love and life.