KING CURIOUS Shares music video for new single "The Makeshift Numbers"
KING CURIOUS - The Makeshift Numbers (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
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Following an explosive run of form with his singles “A Premonition Of A Lonely Soul”, “The Hollowman Come” ft. Sister and most recent “Anxiety” ft. US rapper Solemn Brigham and grime talent Brownsilla, London’s rapid-rising Jim Sturgess, aka King Curious, delivers intoxicating new single “The Makeshift Numbers” ahead of his debut album Common Sense For The Animal due later this year.
The acclaimed actor-turned-musician, singer-songwriter and producer, Jim Sturgess, aka King Curious has quietly become one of the most innovative and experimental talents coming through right now. Blending a rich tapestry of iconic British culture with electronic and alternative and indie influences, King Curious seamlessly transcends from frantic vulnerability to powerfully emotive – and creates a clear marker of London’s alternative musical blueprint.
Hot on the heels of previous releases, the multi-faceted musician drops off his stunning new single “The Makeshift Numbers”, serving up a stunning ballad led by piano notes and backed by echoing strings. The soundtrack provides the perfect bed for King Curious’ innate and powerful lyricism to glide across, serving as a poignant reminder to the Londoner’s versatility in crafting some of the most powerful music emanating from these shores right now.
Speaking on the single, King Curious states: “The Makeshift Numbers is a very personal song about a difficult period in my life. I had stepped away from music for a while and had no real intentions of writing again. But one day the piano kept looking at me from the corner of the room. Asking to be played. So I sat down and fumbled around a few notes and the song pretty much wrote itself. It was a definite closing of a chapter for me and in turn opened up the flood gates into writing the album.”
The critically acclaimed London talent first rose to prominence with his breakthrough acting role in cult hit film, ‘Across the Universe’, going on to appear in Hollywood smash ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, and ‘Cloud Atlas’ alongside Tom Hanks and Halle Berry, before landing the lead role in the smash 2011 film ‘One Day’ alongside Anne Hathaway - recently reinvigorated as a hit Netflix series.
With serious tastemaker attention already coming from the likes of WONDERLAND, EVENING STANDARD and THE INDEPENDENT, this slew of new music looks to stand King Curious on the verge of mainstream realisation. A considered eye on music, and with the kind of deeper introspection that underlines a keen intelligence, the London polymath looks set to underline himself as a formidable rising musical talent as well as one of the UK’s most prominent cult actors.
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