Singer and songwriter Archy Marchall, aka King Krule has released today a new album You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down.

The musician announced the album last month sharing a mysterious message: “Once spilt into the cheap 4-tracks and pirate software, now collosos energy redeemed into small diaphragms. Sat on toilets imagining the moment other animals would sing the very vibrations back to them. Climbing a ladder of fulfilment, that fulfils neither need or want, but in ascent maybe the organised grouping of heartbeats pounding into the universe for an hour and a half would not be better spent. I felt comfortable for once, young and uncomfortable with a tunnel of anxiety to walk through.”

The announcement came with a new video for “Stoned Again (live)” that shows King Krule throwing his guitar on the stage in the middle of a performance. You can watch the video below.

The new live album is King Krule’s first release since Man Alive from 2020 which we described as a record where the singer “has been searching for something, whether that be reassurance or stability or simply hope itself”. 

The new album features 17 songs from his European tour including “Baby Blue” and “Out Getting Ribs”. The album can be purchase and streamed here.

Alongside the release, came out a film made by the musician’s long collaborator Reuben Bastienne-Lewis. It shows footage of the European Tour, mostly shows in Amsterdam and Paris that has happened weeks before the world went into lockdown. You can watch it below:

King Krule recently performed at the main stage of the End Of The Road Festival, at the beginning of this month. During his performance, there was a temporary power cut which lead to a great atmospheric moment with a front-row helping out with their lighters and phones, so he could continue with “his jazzy gumbo of indie-punk and rap”.