The phone rings again before "Alone, Omen 3," but this time Marshall answers it with a cathartic lyrical verse that's one of his best. "Perfecto Miserable" begins with an answer phone ringing off and signals the start of a mellow, meditative run of songs. ‘I told you it was really steep,’ says Archy. In between them you can hear the grinding girders of a garbage truck, which on first glance sound like horns in a Caribbean Carnival. Musician Archy Marshall, better known as King Krule, is a poet of the city: romantic and darkly attuned to its mysteries. Crucially for King Krule fans, there's also a 37-minute set of music, this time attributed to Archy Marshall rather than one of the performer's several aliases. "There's a French girl, on my television, she's crying in the palm of my hand." It's followed by "Stoned Again" and "Comet Face," two punk rock songs that sound like messy bar fights. The opening lines to "Cellular" are instantly more fluid than anything he's done before - "there's a television, there's a television speaking to me," he sings over growling bass. Archy King Krule Marshall the musician whose bed and bedroom this is sees me making notes and says: Don’t mention the jizz rags. Where his previous albums presented a bird's eye view of London life, Man Alive! zooms in and lucidly lays out a scene. Man Alive! starts with a burst of dissonant music that reflects Marshall's current desire to live more in the moment.
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