{"product_id":"malice-k-avanti-lp-marbled-gold-vinyl","title":"Malice K \"AVANTI\" LP (Marbled Gold Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are ghosts all across AVANTI, the debut album from Malice K. At points it's howling and unhinged, a grungy layer atop a lush foundation of melodic capital-s Songwriting, but in other moments it dissolves into a gentle, wistful haunting. Malice K's songs are blunt, uncomplicated and unflinching as he probes the interiority of memories, of mistakes - saturated with an innate intensity that sucks you into his gnarled and visceral world, so barbed it could draw blood. Malice K is helmed by visual artist and songwriter Alex Konschuh, New York-based but born and raised in Olympia, Washington. Following a stint living in Los Angeles, where he became a member of the artist collective Death Proof Inc., a trip to New York resulted in him simply never leaving the city. A period of chaos ensued, Malice K exhausted and unmoored and ultimately, unwell. The record is unpredictable across it's 11 songs. The album opens with a jarring scream on \"Halloween,\" Malice K's breathless vocals buried beneath a grungy, roving Nineties riff. The track emanates a manic energy, enveloping. It's a fitting entry point for the record, and for the vividness of Malice K. The snarling and obsessive \"You're My Girl\" has a swaggering paranoia: \"I got so high I thought my hand touching my hand was your hand.\" But AVANTI exists in quieter moments too; \"Radio,\" with it's fluttering morose cello, moves at an almost glacial pace comparatively. The aching wistfulness of \"The Old House\" is an album stand-out, anchored in an acoustic guitar, an uneasy lullaby that never quite settles into itself: \"I think to myself I got the things that I wanted, but I can't help think there's something else that I forgot to do.\" A recent press interview called Malice K a shapeshifter, but he's not amorphous in that way. He's decisive and intense, more concerned with carving his own path, and building his own world. Every part of Malice K is distinctly himself: from his sweaty high-octane shows to the high-flash high-contrast photos; from his gnarled and unsettling illustrations to the studio recordings that vacillate between grief and tenderness, there's an exceptional ferocity across everything Malice K touches. AVANTI feels lived in, like peering into an abandoned house through a window smeared with grimy fingerprints, relics of a life well-lived scattered inside - despite being a debut, there's the sense that Malice K arrived fully-realized, imperfections and all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Halloween\u003cbr\u003e2. Hold Me Up\u003cbr\u003e3. Song For My Baby\u003cbr\u003e4. The Old House\u003cbr\u003e5. Weed\u003cbr\u003e6. Radio\u003cbr\u003e7. You're My Girl\u003cbr\u003e8. Concrete Angel\u003cbr\u003e9. FADE\u003cbr\u003e10. Raining\u003cbr\u003e11. Blue Monday\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UMG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58393956352325,"sku":"656605245539","price":2.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1061\/0393\/1205\/files\/656605245539_b3de51e1-dce6-4bd4-9595-4a75b2971027.jpg?v=1782546902","url":"https:\/\/www.moonlitvinyl.com\/products\/malice-k-avanti-lp-marbled-gold-vinyl","provider":"Moonlit Vinyl Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}