KING KRULE Space Heavy

SELLING POINTS

• THE FIRST NEW MUSIC SINCE ‘20

• EXTENSIVE GLOBAL TOURING

THROUGHOUT 2023. HEADLINING PITCHFORK FESTIVAL IN JULY

• AVAILABLE ON LIMITED CLEAR LP

• +1m MONTHLY SPOTIFY LISTENERS

• ANNOUNCED APRIL UNDERPLAYS IN NEW YORK CITY AND EUROPE, SOLD OUT IN MINUTES

• RECENT PRESS IN NME, DAZED, HYPEBEAST, STEREOGUM, FADER, PITCHFORK, UPROXX, MORE

Written from 2020 to 2022 in between London and Liverpool, SpaceHeavy took shape over the course of Archy’s commutes between the two cities where he was splitting his time. Befitting an album quite literally written on the commute between the two places he called home, Archy found himself fascinated by the notion of “the space between” – the space haunted by dreams of love, touching a narrative of lost connection, losing people and situations to the guillotine of the universe. SpaceHeavy, indeed.

The result is an album that inhabits the deepest reaches of the subterranean sonic world that Archy has constructed over the course of his career as King Krule. In it you hear a generational artist stepping into the height of their artistic powers – the auteurism apparent on his debut 6 Feet BeneathThe Moon, the shapeshifting sonic palette of The OOZ and the primality of Man Alive! all coalesce into a wizened, dynamic body of work that reveals new elements with each listen. In line with Archy’s interest in the space between, it is an album wherein the negative space demands the same attention as the positive space. If one is willing to wade into the mire the reward is rich.

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 9, 2023

DESCRIPTION / BIO:

Jess Williamson’s Time Ain’t Accidental is the sound of a woman running into her life and art head-on, on her own terms for the first time in a long while. With vocal power kindred to Linda Rondstadt and Emmylou Harris, Williamson blends the emotional immediacy and story-telling of traditional country with the artful, wholly honest transmissions of songwriters like Townes Van Zandt and Terry Allen. The album’s reckoning with loss, isolation, romance, and personal reclamation signals both a stylistic and tectonic shift for Williamson: from someone who once made herself small to an artist emboldened by her power as an individual.

Last year, Williamson and Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee released I Walked With You A Ways under the name Plains; a critically acclaimed record filled to the whiskey-barreled brim with feminine confidence, camaraderie, and straight-up country bangers and ballads. After past records Cosmic Wink (2018) and Sorceress (2020), both released on Mexican Summer, Williamson felt primed to shift in a new direction. Revisiting what she loved growing up, simplifying her process, and making music with a friend proved to be the best step forward for Williamson.

Williamson now splits her time between Marfa, Texas and Los Angeles. Time Ain’t Accidental, with its synthesis of traditional country instrumentation with digital effects and modern sounds, unequivocally embodies the energy of the two very different places that she calls home. The album’s artwork, subtly menacing and neon in awareness and strength, displays, in Williamson’s words, “that supernatural forces are acting all around us, that we can trust that we will be in the right place at the right time.”

SELLING POINTS

• Press Quotes:

• “The Texas singer-songwriter’s fourth album sounds older and wiser, casting her mystical interests as a foil to the bittersweet, ordinary moments that add up to earthly life”

- Pitchfork

• “While love is by far the most common subject of all time when it comes to recorded music, Williamson wrings new insight and feeling out of this oft-tread territory. Free of sappiness or the numbing effect of anything trite, Williamson’s words are the real deal” - PASTE

• “Williamson brings effortless intimacy to her psychedeliaflecked country, shades of Bobby Gentry peeling out from behind the 90s country influences she grew up with...her fourth album has a gentle-assured incantatory feel” - Mojo

• TOUR: US Tour May 19th - June 17th, kicking off in Nashville, with two dates at The Basement; past support tours with Weyes Blood, Kevin Morby, Hamilton Leithouser, and José González; 2022 US tour with Plains (Jess Williamson + Waxahatchee)

• NOTABLE CONTRIBUTORS: Produced by Grammy-nominated Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee, Snail Mail, The War On Drugs, Nathaniel Rateliff, etc)

• PLAINS: (Jess Williamson + Waxahatchee): Feature in NY Times, Pitchfork (8.0 review), Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, NPR All Songs Considered, The Guardian (★★★★), and “Abilene” named #18 Best Songs of 2022 by NPR Music. #1 on the CDX Americana album charts for seven consecutive weeks

• MUSIC VIDEOS: Music videos directed by Rocco Rivetti & Gilles O’Kane (Bat for Lashes, North Americans plus commercials for Louis Vuitton and Adidas)

• PRESS / RADIO: Press and radio teams hired in US, UK, and France

• FOR FANS OF: Waxahatchee, Plains, Hand Habits, Kevin Morby, Hamilton Leithauser, Weyes Blood, Courtney Marie Andrews, Orville Peck, Molly Birch, Big Thief, Angel Olsen, Charley Crockett, Margo Price, Lainey Wilson, Kacey Musgraves, Phoebe Bridgers

ARTIST: Jess Williamson

ALBUM: Time Ain’t Accidental

STREET DATE: June 9, 2023

GENRE: Singer-Songwriter / Americana / Indie Folk

FORMAT: Standard LP, Indie LP, CD

TRACKLISTING

1. Time Ain’t Accidental

2. Hunter

3. Chasing Spirits

4. Tobacco Two Step

5. God in Everything

6. A Few Seasons

7. Topanga Two Step

8. Something’s in the Way

9. Stampede

10. I’d Come to Your Call

11. Roads

MEX338-1: Standard LP

UPC: 184923133813

Specs: Black LP with printed inner sleeve featuring lyrics. Includes download code.

Box lot: 40

Redeye Label Manager: Lori Miller Lori@redeyeworldwide.com 877-733-3931 (ext. 216)

Redeye Contact Info: Redeye Worldwide 505 Eno St. Hillsborough, NC, 27278 redeyeworldwide.com

MEX338-2: CD

UPC: 184923133820

Specs: CD housed in 4-panel gatefold wallet.

Box lot: 50

MEX338-0: Indie LP

UPC: 184923133806

Specs: Hot Pink LP with printed inner sleeve featuring lyrics. Includes download code.

Box lot: 40

ALSO AVAILABLE

Jess Williamson ‘Sorceress’

MEX280-1: Black LP (184923128017)

MEX 280-2: CD (184923128024)

MEX 280-0: Crystal Ball LP (184923128000)

Jess Williamson ‘Cosmic Wink’

MEX253-1: Black LP (184923125313)

MEX253-2: CD (184923125320)

Mexican Summer Sales Contact: zack@mexicansummer.com

Press Contact: joanie@mexicansummer.com

EPK: https://mexicansummer.com/ press-kits/jess-williamsontime-aint-accidental/

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