King Krule – Man Alive! - 2020 No Wave Post Punk Hip Hop - Sealed LP

"The 25-year-old’s renowned versatility — his expansive soundscape often blending jazz, no wave, post-punk, hip-hop and a whole host of other diverse sounds  — is flexed throughout the album. The opening one-two punch of ‘Cellular’ and ‘Supermarché’, which share lurking bass, saxophone squalls and Marshall’s snarls, is offset by the gentler lullaby-like pairing of ‘The Dream’ and ‘Perfecto Miserable’. The former is built on the kind of delicate guitar and distant piano-paired instrumental that Frank Ocean might have featured on ‘Blonde’, while the latter is framed as a lonely answerphone message to someone who is Marshall’s “everything” and “the only thing that makes me feel alright”. Some tracks, such as the mumbling, ‘Ooz’-like ‘(Don’t Let the Dragon) Draag On’, may initially pass you by. But upon each return to ‘Man Alive!’ you’ll find new moments to cherish, such as the (Sandy) Alex G-like vocals-and-guitar minimalism of ‘Slinky’ or the dreamy, Nilüfer Yanya-sampling ‘Airport Antenatal Airplane’, which has Marshall softly singing to himself on a twilight flight from JFK to Heathrow." (NME)