{"product_id":"avanti-656605245515","title":"Avanti","description":"There 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 entrypoint 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.","brand":"Jagjaguwar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46360560435283,"sku":"2648356X","price":27.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/4342103_73c58051-5d88-476c-852e-3951799e4a8a.jpg?v=1790243535","url":"https:\/\/www.deepdiscount.com\/products\/avanti-656605245515","provider":"Deep Discount","version":"1.0","type":"link"}