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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from King Krule was written while Archy Marshall was commuting between in London and Liverpool.
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Dusted Magazine
    Jun 15, 2023
    90
    Contradiction proves mesmerizing across Space Heavy’s tightly executed 45 minutes.
  2. New Musical Express (NME)
    Jun 6, 2023
    80
    This collaborative foray successfully breaks new ground in terms of Marshall’s solo work, further ensuring that ‘Space Heavy’ will assume a lofty standing in King Krule’s already glowing discography.
  3. Slant Magazine
    Jun 6, 2023
    80
    Each instrument stands out because the individual parts are so austere. On Space Heavy, King Krule proves that power sometimes comes with restraint.
  4. Mojo
    Jun 6, 2023
    80
    Another mesmerising, profound, excellent record. [Jul 2023 p.86]
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  5. PopMatters
    Jun 13, 2023
    80
    Though Space Heavy is more emotionally preoccupied than its predecessors, Krule hasn’t lost his assured, inventive style.
  6. No Ripcord
    Jun 13, 2023
    80
    Dark and sonically cavernous, Marshall's fourth release as King Krule fills the innermost spaces of his soul with glacial rhythms that vacillate with tension and release.
  7. The Line of Best Fit
    Jun 9, 2023
    50
    Although it's great to hear the forever prodigy in a better headspace, more mature and precise with his words and emotions, it was the youthful messiness echoed in past efforts that made King Krule far more intriguing than what listeners will experience under the lingering gloom of Space Heavy.

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
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  1. benrobbogarcia
    Jun 15, 2023
    9
    Dark yet delicate. Not a bad song on the whole project, highlights for me are Flimsier, That Is My Life, That Is Yours, Hamburgerphobia, FromDark yet delicate. Not a bad song on the whole project, highlights for me are Flimsier, That Is My Life, That Is Yours, Hamburgerphobia, From The Swamp, Our Vacuum & Space Heavy.

    For me as a whole record it grows and grows on you with every listen and might be his best album to date.    … Expand
  2. ZzzGggg
    Jun 17, 2023
    8
    Хороший альбом. Для меня всё же Man Alive! будет чуть-чуть посильнее, но это достойное продолжение. Empty Stomach Space Cadet лучшая песняХороший альбом. Для меня всё же Man Alive! будет чуть-чуть посильнее, но это достойное продолжение. Empty Stomach Space Cadet лучшая песня тут, как и Hamburgerophobia. В целом, Арчи Маршалл и команда не разочаровали: ещё более седативно и лоу-файно, чем на прошлом альбоме. Для меня минус в том, что здесь больше, чем в том же Man Alive! однообразного звучания в середине альбома. Однако большой плюс в таких треках как Seagirl, Space Heavy.… Expand
  4. Lajaleaa
    Jun 22, 2023
    8
    By being one of the few artists producing this heavy lo-fi concept... it's hard not to appreciate his art. Here we will be able to find a niceBy being one of the few artists producing this heavy lo-fi concept... it's hard not to appreciate his art. Here we will be able to find a nice place to be lazy, to lay back and let the music and time carry us away. There is no big intensity, but you can feel the authentic weight of aura Kin Krulo builds up. There is no true melancholy, but, one more time, this is more of a gas cloud so dense with repressed feelings, that it makes it a nice dark place to lose yourself. I just expect he doesn't get any more dense, or his music will become some very hard to hear.… Expand

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