Man Alive! Tracklist
Man Alive! is the third studio record by King Krule, following his last full-length LP The OOZ released back in 2017.
The album’s release date was announced on January 14th following the visuals for the album’s lead single “(Don’t Let the Dragon) Draag On”.
The record includes songs that were featured in Marshall’s “Hey World!” short film, including “(Don’t Let the Dragon) Draag On” and “Alone Omen 3.”
The album features artwork by Archy Marshall’s brother Jack, paintings by their dad Adam, and photographies by Archy Marshall’s wife Charlotte Patmore.
Begun prior to Charlotte’s pregnancy, at Nunhead’s Shrunken Head Studios with The OOZ’s producer Dilip Harris, the album was finally completed at EVE Studios in Stockport, six months after Marina’s birth.
The title came from a CD that his uncle gave him back in 2013 with some of his uncle’s own music on it, and originally planned to use it for his last album.
“Man Alive!” Q&A
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What does the title mean?
From the album press release:
The new album’s title, he explains, “is an exclamation, about the times we live in. Like, ‘Fucking hell, man!’” He stole the title from a CD that his uncle gave him back in 2013 with some of his uncle’s own music on it, and originally planned to use it for his last album. “But ‘The Ooz’ really summed up that record,” he reasons, “just this splurge of everything I love – messy and with no direction. I thought, anyway, ‘Nah, I can’t steal it off him’, but now I’m like, ‘Fuck it, I’m gonna use it!’ I haven’t really spoken to him about it actually. I just liked the idea of it as an exclamation. It’s kind of like, ‘Oh shit!’, but I didn’t wanna call it that, I wanted it to be ‘Man Alive!’ – super-Americanized, like a saying from Adam West as Batman.
