6 Feet Beneath the Moon

6 Feet Beneath the Moon
Studio album by King Krule
Released	24 August 2013 (2013-08-24)
Genre	Indie rock post-punk jazz fusion trip hop
Length	52:26
Label	True Panther XL
Producer	Archy Marshall Rodaidh McDonald
King Krule chronology
King Krule (2011) 6 Feet Beneath the Moon (2013) A New Place 2 Drown (2015)
Singles from 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
"Easy Easy" Released: 15 July 2013 "Neptune Estate" Released: 21 October 2013 "A Lizard State" Released: 13 January 2014

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.4/10 [1]
Metacritic	77/100 [2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Exclaim!	9/10 [4]
The Guardian	[5]
Mojo	[6]
NME	8/10 [7]
The Observer	[8]
Pitchfork	7.3/10 [9]
Q	[10]
Rolling Stone	[11]
Spin	7/10 [12]

6 Feet Beneath the Moon is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Archy Marshall under the stage name King Krule. It was released on 24 August 2013, Marshall's nineteenth birthday, via True Panther Sounds and XL Recordings. ^[13]

Release and promotion

6 Feet Beneath the Moon was released in North America by True Panther Sounds and in the rest of the world by XL Recordings. Zane Lowe of BBC Radio 1 premiered "Neptune Estate" on his show on 12 August 2013. ^[14] On 14 August, the album was made available to stream in full on King Krule's website, with live CCTV footage of various London streets accompanying each track. ^[15]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Archy Marshall.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Easy Easy"	2:50
2.	"Border Line"	3:06
3.	"Has This Hit?"	4:26
4.	"Foreign 2"	3:39
5.	"Ceiling"	2:56
6.	"Baby Blue"	3:36
7.	"Cementality"	3:44
8.	"A Lizard State"	4:20
9.	"Will I Come"	1:55
10.	"Ocean Bed"	3:31
11.	"Neptune Estate"	5:13
12.	"The Krockadile"	4:52
13.	"Out Getting Ribs"	4:16
14.	"Bathed in Grey"	4:02
Total length:		52:26

Japanese edition bonus track

No.	Title	Length
15.	"Little Wild"	3:40
Total length:		56:06

Sample credits

• "Will I Come" contains samples from The Wicker Man .
• "Bathed in Grey" contains elements and samples from "What Is There to Say", written by E. Y. Harburg and Vernon Duke and performed by Bill Evans.

Personnel

• Archy Marshall – performance, production
• Rodaidh McDonald – production, mixing, engineering
• Andy Ramsay – engineering (tracks 1, 3, 5–8, 10–14)
• Desmond Lambert – engineering (track 5)
• Jack Marshall – illustration
• Reuben Bastienne-Lewis – photography

Charts

Chart (2013)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [16]	86
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [17]	65
French Albums (SNEP) [18]	182
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) [19]	19
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [20]	100
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [21]	60
UK Albums (OCC) [22]	65
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [23]	12
US Billboard 200 [24]	187
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [25]	4
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [26]	37

References

1. "6 Feet Beneath The Moon by King Krule reviews". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
2. "Reviews for 6 Feet Beneath the Moon by King Krule". Metacritic . Retrieved 28 August 2013.
3. Lymangrover, Jason. "6 Feet Beneath the Moon – King Krule". AllMusic . Retrieved 16 May 2018.
4. Lindsay, Cam (23 August 2013). "King Krule: 6 Feet Beneath the Moon". Exclaim! . Retrieved 28 August 2013.
5. Gibsone, Harriet (22 August 2013). "King Krule: 6 Feet Beneath the Moon – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 16 May 2018.
6. Harrison, Ian (26 August 2013). "King Krule – 6 Feet Beneath The Moon". Mojo . Retrieved 28 August 2013.
7. Perry, Kevin EG (20 August 2013). "King Krule – '6 Feet Beneath The Moon'". NME . Archived from the original on 1 September 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
8. Empire, Kitty (18 August 2013). "King Krule: 6 Feet Beneath the Moon – review". The Observer . Retrieved 28 August 2013.
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10. "King Krule: 6 Feet Beneath the Moon". Q (327): 105. October 2013.
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14. "New King Krule "Neptune Estate"". True Panther Sounds. Archived from the original on 3 January 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
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