King Creosote - From Scotland with Love
So the second in the series of albums that I have been listening to for a week at a time so that I can really get to know them as much as possible instead of just skipping through and trying to write a blog post on something I have hardly heard is: King Creosote – From Scotland with Love (extended edition)
I have this electronically from iTunes on recommendation from great friends Ross and Morag Anderson who we were on holiday with at Christmas.
These guys have a real deep love for music and a real understanding of music and it was great to listen to some of the stuff they were introducing us to when we were on holiday.
Ross introduced me to King Creosote for the first time at Christmas as a Scottish independent electronic / folk artist who has produced more than 40 albums in this time. He is responsible for launching the ‘Fence’ record label, whose most famous act is probably KT Tunstall.
That said, King Cresosote (real name Kenny Anderson) has produced an amazing album in ‘From Scotland with Love’. I had listened to it a little bit before I had this concept of listening to albums for a week so it has been on my headphones with the dog for the whole week and looking through it as I write the blog I have begun to fall in love with this album entirely.
It might not work if you’re not Scottish but he is quite critically acclaimed so don’t let the fact that it is Scottish put you off.
The initial track ‘something to believe in’ is haunting and beautiful and not much of the album is particularly upbeat apart from the single ‘for one night only’ which seems to be about saving your money to go out on a Friday night.
The extended edition has 6 bonus tracks, some of which are instrumental re-workings of the main tracks on the album, but the most fascinating one is ‘6 7 8’ which is a re-working of track 4 which is ‘miserable strangers’ with strings but more acoustic and really beautiful.
This is a beautiful album, quite artistic in the same vein as the Scottish intellectual independent music album of Admiral Fallow. Quite a clever piece of music but something I promise you can listen to again and again and hear something different every time you do.
If you are looking for something different to listen to, maybe something folky and of a slower pace then give it a go, it is really fantastic.
p.s – thanks a lot Ross and Morag!
Next weeks album is ‘I speak because I can’ by Laura Marling from 2010.
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