What The Mirror Thought It Saw

Mount Kimbie featuring King Krule “Blue Train Lines”

King Krule sings “Blue Train Lines” with an urgent, frazzled tone, as though he’s trying to fill you in on as many details as he can because there’s just not enough time. His heavily accented rasp sounds like a version of Joe Strummer raised on rap as he spits out lines about witnessing a girlfriend trying to kill herself. He sounds genuinely traumatized and rattled as he cycles through shock, fascination, love, guilt, and panic. His words are vivid and brilliantly constructed – “on the seedy floor in the back of a CD store” is an impressive internal rhyme – but his vocal is even more so, investing every line with raw feeling. Mount Kimbie’s track frames it all perfectly, giving King Krule space as he sets the scene, and then a quickening pulse as the stakes get higher.

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