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Album Review: King Krule - The OOZ

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"Violence is rarely this understated."

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There's a quiet brutality to King Krule's work.

Violence is rarely this understated. But beauty need not always be about shiny, gentle, pretty things.

It can also be about buzzy, confusing, confronting things. The OOZ is confident, dark, and - yes - quite beautiful. Dum Surfer is the pull track, and one of the album's more immediate. Monstrous and distorted though the delivery is, this is as warm as it gets in Krule's world. Lonely Blue is a wounded animal crying at the moon about the injustice of it all. Bermondsey Bosom (Left) is a stunning minute-long mini mood piece. It serves as a refreshing, palate-cleansing punctuation mark for the ooz(e) that surrounds it. Get this.