King Of The Slums - Encrypted Contemporary Narratives (2020)

Brand new album from King of the Slums. Guitars fuzz; Clarissa’s violin draws bleak blood in off-kilter folk serenades for a land poisoned by retail parks and Universal Credit waiting times; Charley’s eye for the surreality of life, our new folk myths, is as sharp as ever.

In an alternative universe The Fall and The Smiths would have been bigger than U2 or Coldplay. In an even more alternative universe King of the Slums would have been bigger than The Fall and The Smiths.