King’s own victory run is a quiet, internet-age fairytale. In 2011 they put some songs up on Soundcloud. Before too long, their squelchy, idiosyncratic, time-capsule sound had gone, if not viral, then straight to all the right ears thanks to Twitter. Questlove, Erykah Badu and Prince declared themselves fans after King’s EP, The Story, came out. Stevie Wonder looms large in King’s sound, but a dreamlike, utopian ambience and psychedelic nuances – “We’re gonna keep on riding till we reach the mothership,” they crooned on The Story – complete the picture of a band out of time. Prince took King out on tour, and remained interested in their development. The odd song made its way out of the bunker – like King’s heavenly, winsome Fela Kuti cover, Go Slow, included on 2013’s Red Hot + Fela compilation. Time passed. Two years after it was initially announced, their full-length debut makes good on King’s initial promise. One of their recurrent themes – escape – is the subject of Red Eye, a melodically ambitious confection that marks the distance travelled since the songs made in King’s spare bedroom. “Catch a red-eye,” they croon, celestially, their vocals duelling with Strother’s layered keys, turning the worst flight on the departures board into a hymn to expanded horizons. Love looms large here too, songs like Supernatural (reworked and extended since the EP version) making like Anita Baker’s Sweet Love, but reassembled on cloud nine by teleportation device. The keyboard is Spiritualized, the percussion is jazz played by moths; they’ve added horns. Every track on We Are King putters and glides by quite smoothly. It’s only gradually you notice how complex this dream state actually is.
[Verse 1] Hey, I know how it will end 'cause it's already been told Happily after only happens in fairytales, daydreams or never But I wished hard on the stars
[Chorus] Now here you are (That's where you are) Shining through the sky, light in my dark Even stars burn out but you held the spark Now here you are to stay (Here in my heart you'll stay)
[Verse 2] Hey, it's true You were made for me, and I you Beyond cloud nine Higher than high past the sky where I'll find Not too far, in the stars
[Chorus] Now here you are (That's where you are) Shining through the sky, light in my dark Even stars burn out but you held the spark Now here you are to stay (Here in my heart you'll stay)
[Outro] Hey you are What I wished for when I saw that shooting star Hey, hey now you are All I wished on a star Hey, now you are All I wished on a star Hey, hey, hey now you are All I wished on a star
King’s own victory run is a quiet, internet-age fairytale. In 2011 they put some songs up on Soundcloud. Before too long, their squelchy, idiosyncratic, time-capsule sound had gone, if not viral, then straight to all the right ears thanks to Twitter. Questlove, Erykah Badu and Prince declared themselves fans after King’s EP, The Story, came out. Stevie Wonder looms large in King’s sound, but a dreamlike, utopian ambience and psychedelic nuances – “We’re gonna keep on riding till we reach the mothership,” they crooned on The Story – complete the picture of a band out of time.
ResponderEliminarPrince took King out on tour, and remained interested in their development. The odd song made its way out of the bunker – like King’s heavenly, winsome Fela Kuti cover, Go Slow, included on 2013’s Red Hot + Fela compilation. Time passed.
Two years after it was initially announced, their full-length debut makes good on King’s initial promise. One of their recurrent themes – escape – is the subject of Red Eye, a melodically ambitious confection that marks the distance travelled since the songs made in King’s spare bedroom. “Catch a red-eye,” they croon, celestially, their vocals duelling with Strother’s layered keys, turning the worst flight on the departures board into a hymn to expanded horizons.
Love looms large here too, songs like Supernatural (reworked and extended since the EP version) making like Anita Baker’s Sweet Love, but reassembled on cloud nine by teleportation device. The keyboard is Spiritualized, the percussion is jazz played by moths; they’ve added horns. Every track on We Are King putters and glides by quite smoothly. It’s only gradually you notice how complex this dream state actually is.
ResponderEliminar[Verse 1]
Hey, I know how it will end 'cause it's already been told
Happily after only happens in fairytales, daydreams or never
But I wished hard on the stars
[Chorus]
Now here you are (That's where you are)
Shining through the sky, light in my dark
Even stars burn out but you held the spark
Now here you are to stay (Here in my heart you'll stay)
[Verse 2]
Hey, it's true
You were made for me, and I you
Beyond cloud nine
Higher than high past the sky where I'll find
Not too far, in the stars
[Chorus]
Now here you are (That's where you are)
Shining through the sky, light in my dark
Even stars burn out but you held the spark
Now here you are to stay (Here in my heart you'll stay)
[Outro]
Hey you are
What I wished for when I saw that shooting star
Hey, hey now you are
All I wished on a star
Hey, now you are
All I wished on a star
Hey, hey, hey now you are
All I wished on a star