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[Legend]

Archy Marshall, 17. Kid can sing flat. His lyrics dig through the offal of love with a deftness that one doesn't often associate with teenagers, though the vitriol certainly sounds familiar. A sample lyric, from "Out Getting Ribs": "I hoped I'd never be shut down / But girl, I'm black and blue / So beaten down for you / Well I'm beaten down and blue."

Marshall produces his own instrumentals as well, which meld an R&B/hip-hop sensibility — loops, drum machine, the clatter of urban life — with the warm piano and murmuring bass of soul music.

The music has a certain remoteness to it, which makes the first listen cold and a little forbidding, but King Krule could catch on here.

Americans are always looking for the next British sensation, and though Marshall's voice deviates from those of polished crooners like Michael Buble, their success shows that there's still a market for men who can sing with gravity.