August 16th, 2012 1:00am  Hard Times To Come  King Krule “Rock
Bottom”  I used to have an elaborately curated and sequenced
iPod playlist that I labelled “Night Town,” and it featured
something like four hundred songs from across many genres and
eras that…uh, sounded really great late at night. I listened to
the playlist mostly when I was traveling home from somewhere
late at night. It wasn’t all slow and quiet songs, and it wasn’t
all ambient and vibe-y or anything like that. A lot of it
rocked, some of it was pretty, and a lot of it had some kind of
groove. It all made intuitive sense to me, at least, and I’m
sure it would make sense to you if I recreated some stretch of
it from memory and shared it with you. It’s a feeling, a
resonance, and maybe something tied to memory, as a lot of it
came from the 70s and 80s and those sounds formed my childhood.
I can say without question that the sort of songs I put on that
playlist are among the most evocative and moving pieces of music
I know, and I wish that when p