KING CREOSOTE

“Astronaut Meets Appleman”

DOMINO

October 14 – Hot on the heels of the release and short Canadian tour for “Bound Of the Red Deer”, his collaboration with Toronto based musician Michael Johnston, King Creosote (otherwise known as Scotland’s Kenny Anderson) releases his beautiful new album Astronaut Meets Appleman. It explores the tension and harmony between tradition and technology – between analogue and digital philosophies – and also invokes a feeling, King Creosote says, of “being caught between heaven and earth”. Twenty-one years and forty + albums in and KC is really now getting the attention he has so long deserved. Creating fantastic folk that’s not just folk, but brilliant music and lyrics reflecting his life in Fife, Scotland, his particular view out onto the larger world and from our world out to the stars. On ‘Astronaut Meets Appleman’ he's upsetting apple carts and dealing with the fallout. He's howling at planets and comets. He’s at sea and in the dark. He’s appraising love and life, the moon, and the stars. His lyrics are tide tables, bagpipe scores, zeros and ones, waves lapping on the beach, mathematics, ticking clocks and the beat of our hearts. “King Creosote’s finest hour yet” 4 ★ Mojo “His wrinkled brogue – warm, pithy, occasionally fluttering to a falsetto – is a thing of understated beauty in itself, framed in folk-shanty arrangements that make telling use of strings and bagpipes” 8/10 Uncut