Man Alive *** Vinyl

After two feverishly received albums as King Krule, plus another low-key outing under his own name, this extraordinarily gifted 25-year-old from Peckham in South London adds further depth and substance to his oeuvre with another wondrous long player called ‘Man Alive!’. The album arrives packed full of his trademark sonic ambition and compositional skill, as well as the nowfamiliar corrosive lyricism and lurid social observation. In an accompanying video, his first foray into directing, Archy Marshall’s longtime love of cinema seeps, pulling influences from Carl Theodor Dreyer’s classic The Passion Of Joan Of Arc while still creating a typically wry King Krule visual.