KING

hey guys maybe there was some sort of backup or bottleneck at the pressing plants and they had a really long turnaround time for the vinyl

― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, June 24, 2016 6:50 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iirc this is the case 100% of the time?

ya I was being facetious but idk if it came thru v well, bcz to me it is totally obvious that this is the case 100% of the time and it's absurd for anyone to complain abt vinyl taking a long time to come out

hot damn that jennah bell song

Chewshabadoo OTM! I have the album now and it's 33 1/3. Sound GREAT. Though my ears are easy to impress.

four song Spotify Sessions!

man they can really do it live...dang

https://open.spotify.com/album/73cbJQKaZAp6vedt7fsUh9

ilm sound forever

they are playing at the dakota jazz club in mpls coming up, place is usually pretty spendy but it's a really nice intimate venue for a group like this

saw them last night at a tiny intimate little venue and it was SO. GOODL. AAAAHHHHHHH

booked tickets for their london show, at a medium-sized venue but we'll see how popular they prove. all of london ilx ought to be there

bristolians, glaswegians and mancunians will be receiving the delightful presence of KING as well if they'd care to attend

i listen to that spotify sessions more than the album tbh. debarge flip so swoonsome

Wait when are they playing? (I'm guessing it's the Jazz Café or similar?)

Listened to this album after a stressful and shitty day and it just melted everything away.

nov 7th, village underground

In W. DC tonight

five shows in Germany but none in France :(

this album is gonna get super-overlooked on the year-end lists, don't y'all think?

probably. nobody outside ilx seems to care. :(

I'll do my best.

It's my number one, but I'm a non voting felon

I could picture pitchfork sneaking it in near the bottom of their list, like what they did with Blackheart last year. It seems like the kind of album they'd like.

They were great at Bush Hall earlier this year, but funds are a little tight right now so probably can't make the trip up this time.

Craig and I resisted the urge to shout out 'Love and Pride' between tracks remarkably well I felt.

nobody outside ilx seems to care

is this true? I don't really have my ear to the ground at all but they got v favorable notices from NPR, Pitchfork, Ratliff in the Times, Spin...feels like a really enduring album to me

whoa i'm listening to this album and "supernatural" O_O

hi, k3vin!

welcome to h3avin

is this true? I don't really have my ear to the ground at all but they got v favorable notices from NPR, Pitchfork, Ratliff in the Times, Spin...feels like a really enduring album to me

i don't think nobody outside ilm cares. it definitely got love 'round release date. i guess i just felt like that was months ago and it's an understated record and so ppl would forget. but i just searched my email and found this from their publicist in August:

KING's critically acclaimed #1 independent album We Are KING has been honored with coveted spots on the "Best Of 2016 (So Far)" lists by TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Complex, NPR, Stereogum, Noisey, Newsday and The Quietus.

so maybe i'm wrong. i hope so!

its my #1 this year

think i heard one of these tracks on a recent episode of "insecure"

A track def plays in an ep of high maintenance

It's definitely got some love in the more daddish sections of the UK music press - that's not surprising given it'll appeal to the sort of people who wish R&B had stopped evomvingy at some point shortly after Innervisions.

It's not like something like Blackheart, which really did seem to get completely ignored outside of ILM, Fact and The Quietus.

ILM, Fact and The Quietus
ILM, Fact and The Quietus
ILM, Fact and The Quietus
ILM, Fact and The Quietus
ILM, Fact and The Quietus
ILM, Fact and The Quietus
ILM, Fact and The Quietus

https://vine.co/v/eOZpvu01PQt

A track def plays in an ep of high maintenance

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, November 5, 2016 3:13 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark

oh yeah that's what it was

there was a king song on insecure, too. "in the meantime," i think.

people who wish R&B had stopped evomvingy at some point shortly after Innervisions.

well let's face facts there was very little evomvingy left to do after Inmerzidgions

Blackheart is a fictional demon appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an adversary to the superhero Ghost Rider.

> It's definitely got some love in the more daddish sections of the UK music press - that's not surprising given it'll appeal to the sort of people who wish R&B had stopped evomvingy at some point shortly after Innervisions.

king sounds pretty '90s r&b to me- am i just ignorant?

HOLY SHIT THIS ACAPELLA COVER OF "HEY"

https://soundcloud.com/jessicanewry/hey-acapella-arrangement-of

SO GOOD IT BROUGHT ME BACK TO ILX

omg hi 💕💕

:)

so pumped for seeing them in 2 days

people who wish R&B had stopped evomvingy at some point shortly after Innervisions.

well let's face facts there was very little evomvingy left to do after Inmerzidgions

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, November 5, 2016

exactly

Haha I was posting on my phone but I have no idea how that even happened.

Holy fucking shit their new song Runaway is the best song of all time

well let's face facts there was very little evomvingy left to do after Inmerzidgions

LMAO

Holy fucking shit their new song Runaway is the best song of all time

― imago

was unable to google. link?

("king runaway" gets the second novel of a fantasy trilogy. "we are king" runaway gets a song by we the kings. "paris king runaway" gets louis xvi.)

oh wait it's live-only, i thought they'd released it on soundcloud or something, carry on

yeah, what a damn show

Their contributions to the Corinne Bailey Rae album are at least on the level of their own work, maybe even better? "Horse Print Dress" in particular is a rollercoaster of ecstacy