King Creosote
Folk / Undefined
King Creosote's debut album proper for Fence - and Domino - is best
described as a sort of best of kind of. Rarin'! The working titles "J.G.'s
o' peeps" and "Honkin'" were replaced by the snappy and mis-spelled "Kenny &
Beth's musacal boat rides" from the stunning LP artwork. Midget Squid
cunningly altered the 'c' to look like a 'k' & 'c' hybrid, which sums up the
whole record really.
Some of the "K&B" song versions - "pulling up creels", "turps", "spokes",
"counselling", "harper's dough", "meantime", "missionary", and "a friday
night in new york" - are the originals, so no version from now on will be as
good, and yet some of the "K&B" song versions aren't the originals -
"homeboy", "so forlorn", "lavender moon" and "space" - so the originals
won't ever be as good. "Lone Pigeon's wineglass finale" is a shorter,
different verion of a longer, samey track, thereby making a "something to
bug everyone" collection.
"It's brilliant!" The Crail pharmacist - surprisingly youthful - was talking
of the guitar playing on "lavender moon", which happens to be by Pip Dylan.
Somewhat embarrassed at not giving the record a full listen he then added "I
also liked the lower harmony vocals that you panned to the right". These
were supplied courtesy of local singer and domino champion, James Yorkston.
If you already have the KC albums "Queen of B.C.", "Rain Weekend", "Inner
Crail", "I am 9", "Jacques de Fence", "12 o'clock on the dot", "G", "Bazouki
Hair Oil" and "Whelk of Arse" - there's possibly three tracks you won't have
already heard. Since it's only Paul Nowak and Ben Milne who fit into this
category, the rest of you should hear this collection as the freshest most
important KC record since 1995.
Mastered by Guy at The Exchange last December, "K&B" is still on his work
computer - and as an album, K&B's sounds better than anything that KC has
recorded before or since.
After a couple of dozen plays (and KC knows these tracks inside out b.t.w.)
KC is only now getting the hang of it. And his album.
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