Lukeaboss

King Krule’s 2023 album, Space Heavy, has accompanied me on so many flights between TX and CA over the past couple of years. After all the journeys with this collection as my headphone passenger, often times spinning me into as good of sleep as you can expect in coach, I’ve recently had an epiphanous moment from learning the background of it’s creation.

The album was written by KK during years of frequent train commutes between London and Liverpool, the two places he calls home, and focuses thematically on the “space between” places, people, and life stages. In that same vein, it explores grappling with change, forced or natural, and “losing people and situations to the guillotine of the universe.”

Reading about this felt like it closed a circle. While these themes aren’t always expressly revealed, the spirit in the music indeed shines through and puts you on that same level. Incredible. For me, these songs continue to fill that heavy space between.

P.S. this was also one of the best live shows I’ve ever been to when I saw him at Stubbs in Austin in late 2023.