Table of contents for Issue 551 in Record Collector

rc.editorial@metropolis.co.uk www.recordcollectormag.com Record Collector Magazine @RecCollmag RecordCollectormag @recordcollectormag MARQUEE RUNES This month's issue is solid gold. Another great [front cover] feature, this time on the legendary Marquee Club – 12 pages in RC 550. Between 1984-86, I frequented 90 Wardour Street's Soho venue at least once a week to see the more obscure of bands, [and I'm] forever immortalised on video in the audience at Robyn Hitchcock's 27 April ‘85 recording released as Gotta Let This Hen Out. I'm centre-front, jumping about. Honest. It's a place where I also met a certain [Adam] Ant guitarist and Cult singer while at the bar. For me, it was often our US visitors who were of real merit, notably Dylan's go-to-guitar-man, Charlie Sexton, doing a fine set, ditto Lone Justice at their sold-out…

Bill Ryder-Jones echyd Da (Domino WIGLP 485, LP, 2024) A stunning new record from Bill Ryder-Jones is on the horizon early next year, produced at his studio in West Kirby. With a Welsh album title (meaning “good health”) to pay homage to both his love of the language and some of his family members’ roots, lechyd Da also contains guest appearances and samples from Mick Head, Gal Costa and a choir of local kids. The Dinked edition of the vinyl has already sold out, but you can still pre-order a ‘powder blue’ version from indie record stores in the UK. An early 2024 highlight. Deary Deary (Sonic Cathedral SCR 260 EP, EP, 2023) Having been remixed by Saint Etienne and signed by Sonic Cathedral, it's been an excellent year for…

Emma Anderson is best known as the co-founder of Lush and, later, Sing-Sing and is one of the most underrated songwriters to emerge from the era that encompassed shoegaze and Britpop. Now, as she embarks on a new phase of her career with her debut solo album, Pearlies, she shows us through her eclectic collection that she started acquiring during childhood. It reveals her influences as well as an insight into her time working as a PR for Factory Records before signing to her favourite label, 4AD. Plus, there are a couple of records she borrowed from Kevin Shields back in the 80s and never gave back. What do you collect, and why? I don't go to record fairs and hunt out gems in charity shops, but if I see…

It was one of those conversations nobody wants to participate in. I consoled myself with the fact that Mr O'List endures these talks every day. For me, it would be once or twice a lifetime. “In my opinion,” he said, an unnecessary clause as he would not be offering anybody else's, “this operation is the only option for your wife. But nobody does it here. You'd need to go to the United States, or there's a talented chap in Seoul, though I believe he's only done a couple.” My heart plummeted. A few weeks later, Jemma and I had plumped for Florida, God's waiting room for old goats like us. But the operation would cost about $145,000. Money we did not have. So, we decided to sell our home to…

Paul Rodgers has enjoyed a reasonably quiet life since 2009, when he bid an amicable farewell to the Queen + Paul Rodgers collaboration that had taken him around the world over the previous four years. “Quiet” is a relative term, of course: the last 14 years have seen him tour as a solo artist and with his old band Bad Company, play tribute shows to his even older band Free, and release albums of his own and in collaboration with others – but he's nowhere near as often in the public eye as he was in the first decade of the 2000s. Perhaps for this reason, the press release for Rodgers’ new album Midnight Rose includes a whole swathe of tributes from the great and the good of the rock…

Jazz Spectacular (Columbia, 1955) Teaming up with the Buck Clayton Orchestra was an experience Laine loved. Many believe this was his best album, but the Mercury magic isn't quite there. Rockin’ (Columbia, 1957) Rightfully should have been called Swingin’. Has a ravishing new version of That's My Desire. Rockin’ Chair, as sung by Mildred Bailey, inspired Frankie to take up singing. Arrangements by Paul Weston and Billy May. Hell Bent For Leather (Columbia, 1961) He was no longer hit material, but the albums still sold. This, his first full-blown western album, made No 7 on the UK charts. Has re-recordings of Mule Train, The Cry Of The Wild Goose, High Noon and 3.10 To Yuma. A Brand New Day (Amos, 1971) Quite an updating of content, but fun to hear…

Dave Davies on sci-fi, painting and pints in the Clissold. Are there any songs that you insisted made it on to the album? Well, no, it was kind of obvious that there were certain songs we had to put on. It's like if we didn't put You Really Got Me on the first one. Of course, things like Wicked Annabella had to be on there. Both parts of The Journey have been split into thematic suites. At the time of recording, would you ever have discussed things like the themes behind songs as a band? What tended to happen in those days, and still does happen, was that the themes just kind of suggest themselves. I like to think it's always been a very organic process. Ray would come up…

Prince & The New Power Generation Diamond And Pearls (Super Deluxe Edition) Paisley Park/Sony Legacy 0603497843756 (7CD/Blu-ray, 12LP/Blu-ray) In 1991, Prince's career reached a challenging crossroads. Just seven years after his worldconquering Purple Rain had transformed him from a punk-ass R&B upstart into an imperious pop monarch, his crown was beginning to slip. As the less-thanglorious sales figures for his Lovesexy, Batman, and Graffiti Bridge albums showed, his audience was rapidly shrinking. But Prince, still only 33, wasn't going down without a fight and he found his commercial mojo again with his 13th album, Diamonds And Pearls, which has now been remastered and reissued in several configurations, the pinnacle of which is a jaw-droppingly lavish 12LP Super Deluxe box set that is bolstered with sundry remixes, non-album B-sides, live performances…

Billy Bragg on fame, songwriting – and the chance of a mega encore. This is one hell of a collection. How involved in it were you? I was the person who had to verify everything! Of all the people involved I'm the only one who was there 40 years ago – “Who plays on this track?, Where was this recorded?” I'm lucky, I'm one of those sticklers for information, I love sleevenotes. Then I had to listen to it all to make sure they were the right tracks. On a trip to New Hampshire I listened to every track – in the airport, on the plane, on the train down the Connecticut valley. And were they all correct? All but one. It was a cover of Todd Rundgren's Just One…

Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds Universal 5812254 (CD/2CD, LP) The last time the Stones released a new album of original material, the producer of Hackney Diamonds was a 14-yearold schoolboy. Yes, it's been a while, but if some naysayers suggest the gap between now and 2005's A Bigger Bang points to an absence of inspiration, others may look at it more pragmatically. For the best part of 20 years (and arguably much longer), the most rigorously pursued business model has been the presentation of former triumphs at varying levels of spectacle onstage. And who among the millions who bought tickets for those shows ever left complaining there weren't enough new songs in the set? Punters came for the hits, and they were given the hits. While not quite a spectacle, the…

Bob Dylan: Mixing Up The Medicine Edited by Parker Fishel & Mark Davidson Callaway, £80 ISBN 9781734537796, 608 pages His back pages For those of us who might struggle to justify a round trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to gawp at the countless manuscripts and recordings housed at The Bob Dylan Center, Mixing Up The Medicine is the next best thing. This weighty and stylish book presents hundreds of Dylan's manuscripts, letters, doodles, and draft lyrics, along with reproductions of period ephemera, over a thousand photographs and 30 essays from celebrated Dylan watchers. The hardcore Bobcats this is aimed at won't particularly need the running commentary on albums and significant events in Dylan's life but will pore over the early stabs at what would become era-defining lyrics, unpublished liner notes and…

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This month; L. Shankar Across a career spanning more than five decades, Indian violinist and singer Lakshminarayana Shankar, known variously as L Shankar, Shenkar, or just Shankar (due to record company stipulations), has featured on a wealth of recordings across a remarkable spectrum of genres, often fusing traditional Eastern modes with Western forms of expression. A virtuoso violinist and remarkable singer with a five-octave vocal range, he's collaborated with musicians ranging from Phil Collins and The Pretenders to Bill Laswell, Talking Heads and Frank Zappa. Born in India, in 1950, and raised in Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka), Shankar came from a musical family. His father, V. Lakshminarayana, was an internationally renowned violinist and composer, while his mother, L Sitalakshmi, played the veena. Shankar's elder brothers, L. Vaidyanathan and L. Subramaniam,…

When it comes to great singles bands of the 60s, we're spoilt for choice. Generally, The Beatles are seen as the ultimate masters of the form, but there's also the Stones, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, the output of Bacharach-David, the Motown label, Phil Spector… The 70s were more about albums artists – David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young – but the 80s were another golden age for 7”s supremos: New Order, The Smiths, Madonna, Prince, Pet Shop Boys… and, perhaps the decade's finest exemplars, Madness. From 1980 to 1984 – My Girl to One Better Day – The Artists Reductively Dismissed As Nutty Boys released 17 x 45s that caught the mood of the moment such that, played back to back, they tell a (the) story of the times,…

On 9 October, a one-copy audio-visual NFT artwork of Joy Division‘s Unknown Pleasures with unissued vocals, CP1919: Sweeping Sun Black 2023, was offered via pacegallery.com. ■ September sales via ICZ Auctions, Palm Habor, Florida, included (21) John Lennon sketches, signed guitars from Stevie Ray Vaughan, KISS, Foo Fighters, Led Zeppelin/drumstick/ bow (28) Tom Petty guitar, Bob Dylan handwritten setlist, October (11-12), signed guitars from Roy Orbison, Prince, Pink Floyd, Queen, The Police, Eagles, Rush, Ramones. ■ On 22 September, a Tom Waits hat was offered via eBay. ■ Elton John‘s 13,332 sq ft, fourbed, seven-bath flat, Peach Tree Heights East, Atlanta, was offered in September via Coldwell Banker, $4,995 million. ■ A 26 September auction at Paris Hotel Druout included a Michael Jackson hat that made €60,000, T-Bone Walker guitar,…

How come you're back with a new project now? Good question. I've been thinking about this a lot. It was the first time in all that time that I became curious to hear what a modern Drop Nineteens song might sound like, and there was only one way to find out! Getting back together and being part of each other's lives again has been its own reward, too. Tell us about the new album. We never really followed up Delaware but ran in an entirely new direction and made a very strange album, National Coma. Most people don't like it, and I agree with the reasons that they don't. Hard Light is an album made embracing what I feel is good about Delaware. It's the follow-up it deserved. Were there…

Danny Kaye Hans Christian Andersen Collection (Brunswick LA 8572, LP, UK, 1954) Reminds me of days at my grandparents’ and my introduction to grown-up music and songs you could sing along with. Danny Kaye was all over the wireless as well, particularly The Ugly Duckling and Wonderful Copenhagen. The Moody Blues On The Threshold Of A Dream (Dream SML 1035, LP, UK, 1969) This LP, particularly Graeme Edge, inspired me to try writing poetry. That lasted about a year but this album will be around forever. Each member contributes to it: Dear Diary and Never Comes The Day are outstanding examples. A golden age for gatefold covers. This album led the field. Black Sabbath Black Sabbath (Vertigo VO 6. LP. UK. 1970) The rain, the tolling bell, the edgy guitar…

SAVE YOUR TEARS I used to be a big Suede fan. I bought all their albums and, as their career developed, most of the solo projects, even down to Mat Osman's Mista Brown 7”. Like many fans, I was delighted when Brett and Bernard got together again in 2005 as The Tears. Being a vinyl lover, I bought Here Come The Tears on the black stuff as well as CD. I notice on Discogs that, unlike a lot of the Suede back catalogue, this album has yet to be reissued. Does this affect the price of my original? The condition is mostly excellent – like the music on the LP. Dick Summerville via email As you know, Brett Anderson (vocals) and Bernard Butler (guitar) were the largest and most creative…

RABBIT BUNDRICK Ex-The Who keyboardist on his latest Electric Forgiveness set What film could your new album soundtrack? It's a wild, modern psychedelic soundtrack to a movie in preproduction. It's what LSD sounds like! If you could re-visit any of your albums, what'd you change? The Native American-themed albums could benefit from a fresh look, and Dream Jungle. Who'd you like to produce? Third Of Never. I'm on their record out next year, and a great new band, Night Parade. Where were you when you first heard one of your songs on vinyl? Blackwell's Wonderful was on the radio, on the way to a grocery store, 1969. What was your favourite record shop when you started out? Jive Hive, Houston. What was your first record? Floyd Cramer, Last Date. What…

Free Fire And Water (1970) Free wrote some great songs before their third album appeared in 1970, it's true, but it's impossible to deny the greatness of Fire And Water's career-best single All Right Now. Bass solos are often cheesy and almost never cool, but Andy Fraser's slinky little runaround on this song defies both of those clichés. Bad Company Bad Company (1974) It might seem predictable to list Bad Company's biggest-selling album here, but again, you can't really get away from the big, tentpole singles Can't Get Enough and Movin’ On, as well as the amazing deeper cuts. Paul Rodgers Cut Loose (1983) A curio in the Rodgers discography – especially within his solo albums, which are largely tribute and live recordings – this eclectic LP reveals his ability…

ANDREW GOLD Fans of obscure psych, may we introduce to you The Fraternal Order Of The All? If you haven't got a copy of their sole 1997 LP, Greetings From Planet Love, your collection cannot possibly be complete. And no, that's not a typo; it was released in 1997, not 1967. And the man who made it is best known for work from a different decade and genre entirely – best-selling soft-rock LA songwriter extraordinaire and multiinstrumentalist Andrew Gold. The same man who became synonymous with creamy AOR hits such as 1977's Lonely Boy, 1978's Thank You For Being A Friend and Never Let Her Slip Away. He had, of course, proved his versatility as a songwriter decades before he worked on Greetings From Planet Love. Working in the shadow…

Name: Graham ‘Suggs’ Macpherson Instrument: Voice Role: The Visionary “I said Norton should be an album about London. Chris said, ‘What have all our other songs been about?!’” Name: Chris ‘Chrissy-Boy’ Foreman Instrument: Guitar Role: The Taskmaster “I argue with people – I have a kill-list with names of the people who annoy me” Name: Mike ‘Barso’ Barson Instrument: Keys Role: The Founder “There was a lot of creativity within our gang, but somebody had to pull it all together” Name: Lee ‘Kix’ Thompson Instrument: Sax Role: The Rascal “In Nassau, Tom Tom Club were a bit sneery with us. There may have been an altercation” Name: Daniel ‘Woody’ Woodgate Instrument: Drums Role: The Bedrock “Madness is a supportive gang, really loyal to each other, and protective as well” Name:…

Gett Off (No label or catalogue number, 1991) £500 This wildly psychedelic hip hop jam was the first taster of Prince's New Power Generation music. To test public reaction, he pressed up 1500 copies of an unmixed version as an exclusive limited-edition, one-sided 12” promo single, which came in a cover featuring his hand-drawn artwork. It was issued to DJs and radio stations on June 7th, 1991 to mark Prince's 33rd birthday and featured the Damn Near 10 Minutes mix, which is now finally available on the D&P Super Deluxe box set. The track's popularity prompted Prince to rejig D&P‘s track list, inserting the newly recorded Gett Off at the expense of an older track, Horny Pony. Diamonds & Pearls/Nothing Compares 2 U (Live At Glam Slam) (NPG Records/The Prince Estate,…

In the world of poultry there is literally a pecking order and where the band ATOMIC ROOSTER were concerned, at the top of the perch was their organist leader Vincent Crane. In Hearing Of (★★★ Music On Vinyl) followed their biggest hit, Devil's Answer, which in 1971 was a top-five hit. Their lineup was in flux however, with the recruitment of vocalist Pete French causing a rift between those who had played on 1970's pounding Death Walks Behind You. The resulting album was less gnarly than its predecessor. Nor did it chart as highly, despite the attempt at greater accessibility. To match or surpass their earlier achievements was a tall order and some of the decisions made by Crane were not always the wisest. Just like a chicken, the band…

Duran Duran Danse Macabre Tape Modern/BMG 4050538952247 (CD, 2LP) Duran Duran are notorious for taking their time between albums. Since the fab five's reunion in 2003, they've recorded only half a dozen long-players (one of which remains unreleased), and the gap between 2021's Future Past and its antecedent, Paper Gods, was a leisurely six years. So, the news that a new album was on the way after a mere two was met with surprise and not a little trepidation, mainly because Danse Macabre, the band's 16th album, leans heavily on covers. Duran Duran have previous tackling other artists’ songs: their 1995 album Thank You – which saw them have a stab at tracks by Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan and, er, Public Enemy – was once voted, rather unfairly, as the…

23 Seconds To Eternity BFI Blu-ray The visual side of music biz agents provocateurs Debates still rage over the motives, philosophies and endgames of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty during their time together under various permutations of the KLF brand, so it's likely this two-hour compendium of promotional videos and idiosyncratic short films will be pored over for further clues. It's been more than 30 years since the duo ended a performance at the Brit Awards with the announcement that they'd “left the music business”, but there's been negligible dimming of the myths that surround them. Oftentimes, the clips produced to plug singles were greeted as works of art in themselves, be it The Timelords’ glam/sci-fi hybrid Doctorin’ The Tardis, the outlandishly ritualistic Justified And Ancient with country royalty Tammy…

Emily MacNevin backstage with Eric Bloom Do you have any gig memories? As a punter, in 1969, I went to see The Moody Blues at Stonybrook University, New York, probably high. Not probably, definitely. Fairly close to the front, in the row behind me, was Timothy Leary, wanted by the law. When The Moody Blues launched into their famous Timothy Leary's Dead tune, he got up, went to the stage, and played tambourine with them, with a huge grin on his face. The crowd erupted. You cut three live albums in New York for your 50th Anniversary. When are they due? The first night will be by Christmas. Frontiers are releasing the three nights, plus another release. What songs do you most like playing live? Veteran Of The Psychic Wars.…

Zach Condon aka Beirut… on the soundtrack to his life The Beach Boys Endless Summer (Capitol Records, EA-ST 11307, LP, UK, 1974) £8 When I was a child, my first musical love was a Beach Boys greatest-hits compilation on tape. I would have been four or five. I obsessed with it to the point where I drove my family insane. Even now, whenever I get new speakers, I blast Surfer Girl to see how that system sounds. The power of harmony was so intense – I didn't even know what the lyrics were to some songs. My dad used to get so upset with me. He'd say, “There's no tuba in this song!” I thought the T-bird [on Fun, Fun, Fun] was a tuba. Souls Of Mischief 93 ‘Til Infinity…

This month: Greg Lake King Crimson Epitaph (from In The Court Of The Crimson King, Island ILPS 9111, LP, First Pressing, UK, 1969) £600 This haunting, funereal-paced lament closes side one of King Crimson's debut album. Throughout his all-too-short tenure with the band, Lake turned in some of his finest vocal masterclasses, and with Epitaph he injects the perfect level of pathos into every word as it builds to a tumultuous climax of muffled kettledrums and a swirling fusillade of mellotrons. It was a portent of things to come, and in the solemn fade-out you can almost hear the band digging their own grave. King Crimson In The Court Of The Crimson King (from In The Court Of The Crimson King, Island ILPS 9111, LP, First Pressing, UK, 1969) £600…

Stevie Chick's first record was by Madness (1982's Complete Madness) and his first gig was Madness (Southampton Gaumont, Nov 1985), so it makes for a pleasing cosmic symmetry that his first Record Collector cover story is a profile of Madness. Peak beneath the group's nutty carapace from page 74. Author and speaker Bill Kopp is a regular RC contributor. His work has a special focus on celebrating overlooked artists, e.g., this month's Andrew Gold (p66) feature. He's currently writing his third book, What's The Big Idea: Great Concept Albums, due in 2024. Joel McIver, who interviews Paul Rodgers on p50, was an RC staffer for six years before quitting to write books, 35 of them so far. He recently co-wrote the memoir of Anthrax bassist, Frank Bello. As tales of…

Best-known for once boasting the largest indoor-seated arena in the UK, Earls Court has been a stomping ground for musicians from the jazz era onwards, while neighbouring West Kensington was once home to Estelle. We begin and end near a tube stop, taking a circuitous two-wheel route, with the odd stop-off for liquid refreshment. At West Kensington tube (District line), the adjacent Famous 3 Kings pub, 171, North End Road W14 9NL, became The Nashville Room and hosted country artists in the early 70s. It pivoted to rock in 1975, staging gigs by Arthur Brown, and from 1976 to 1980, punk/rock c/o Sex Pistols, The Police, The Clash, The Damned, Elvis Costello, Squeeze, The Stranglers, Ian Dury, The Troggs, Aswad, AC/DC, The Jam, Ultravox. The Undertones, Siouxsie & The Banshees…

Outside his fervent fanbase, nobody is sure what the LA-based Jonathan Wilson does. Reviver of the Laurel Canyon scene? Yes. Producer of artists such as Father John Misty, Angel Olson and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy? True. Tour guitarist/ vocalist/member of Roger Waters’ repertory company? Yep, that, too. He's also the creator of his own splendid solo albums, which is why RC have the pleasure of his company, talking about his new release, Eat The Worm, a product of some of his more audacious fever dreams of the past few years. Talking from his log-cabin kitchen in his studio in Topanga Canyon, he looks every inch the universal idea of a hippie: bearded, with centre-parted long hair; a mellow man with a strong work ethic. Hi, Jonathan, Record Collector here from the…

FRANKIE LAINE A decade before The Beatles’ American invasion, a barrelchested Chicagoan mounted a siege of the British charts unprecedented in its intensity. Between March 1953 and October 1954, Frankie Laine placed 11 singles in the UK Top 10, three of them No Is. Across 1953 alone, he spent 27 weeks in the top slot. I Believe was No 1 for a recordbreaking 18 weeks, though Slim Whitman, with Rose Marie for 15 weeks in 1955, and Bryan Adams, 16 with Everything I Do (I Do It For You) in 1991, eventually passed his consecutive weeks record. In November of 1953, for three weeks rtmning, he had three discs in the Top 10 at the same time. On his record-breaking concert visits here between 1952 and 1954, billed as Mr…

That there is no active Friends Again to promote the current vinyl re-release of their debut – and only – album Trapped And Unwrapped is unlikely to come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the could-havebeen massive 80s Scottish pop act: there wasn't really an active band first time around, either. “We split up before the album came out,” says Friends Again frontman Chris Thomson today. “The end got a bit messy.” A bit messy? That – as will soon become clear – is one of the great understatements of 80s Scottish pop. “What we did [to Chris] was a really shit thing to do” is how Friends Again keyboard player Paul McGeechan more accurately describes it. For all the twists and turns of Scottish music since its 80s…

Reviews From The Vaults Reissues, remasters and compilations The Kinks The Journey – Part 2 BMG 4050538897685 (2CD, 2LP) Sixty years on and The Kinks are still doing things their way. They were always that bit worldlier, stranger, and more knowing than their peers and – though it's been 30 years since their last album, Phobia – that inherent otherness still cuts through everything they do. Not for them the neat, chronologically compiled anniversary greatest hits set. Instead, Ray (and, let's be honest, this all feels very Ray) has compiled The Journey, a two-part (so far) series with each volume split into thematically arranged groups of songs. Earlier this year, Part 1 broadly explored themes of coming of age, love, existential dread and fame using material up to 1975's Schoolboys In…

Billy Bragg The Roaring Forty: 1983-2023 Cooking Vinyl COOKCD 862 X (2CD/14CD, LP/3LP) Who'd have thought it when Billy Bragg, enthusiastic and charmingly innocent, made his debut four decades ago? This 14CD and book set is a celebration of a body of work that no one – almost certainly not even the man himself – could have imagined. He's 65 now and who can take that in? The bignosed bard from Barking – as he christened himself – as a respectable family member of society, and still working tirelessly. This mammoth collection – 324 tracks, unless my O-level maths has deserted me – features in full every one of his studio albums and mini-albums, each CD with a near equal batch of singles and B-sides, radio sessions, live tracks and…

More Than A Whisper: Celebrating The Music of Nanci Griffith Rounder 1166101819 (CD, LP) Rich tribute to genrespanning singer A country/ roots who's who tribute to the late singersongwriter who would have turned 70 this summer. Steve Earle contributes Gaelic-rocking It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go, Lyle Lovett, as distinctly gravelly as ever, duets with Kathy Mattea on Trouble In The Fields and Shawn Colvin beautifully reimagines Griffith/Tom Russell co-write Outbound Plane. But it's not just old friends; younger ones, too… virtuoso pickers Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle's delicate Listen To The Radio and Sarah Jarosz with a reflective You Can't Go Home Again, even Brit alt-country husband and wife duo Ida Mae. Emmylou Harris’ Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War) is a triumph, twanging guitar bursting…

King Creosote I DES Domino Records WIGLP 450 (2CD, LP) Mystery is a much-missed weapon in the repertoire of many contemporary musicians; a sense of unknowable unpredictability, of marching to their own drum's beat and not falling into the usual record-promotetourrecord cycle, while still maintaining unmissable standards in their own music when it does appear. So, then, to Kenny ‘King Creosote’ Anderson, an artist who seems most content self-releasing modestly self-promoted DIY albums (over 100 of them in the past 30 years) on his Fence label in the East Neuk of Fife, a coastal Scottish fishing landscape between Edinburgh and St Andrews. For the last decade or so, Domino Records have managed to harness his abilities as an electro-acoustic folk-pop composer into some striking albums. These include the Mercury Prize-nominated…

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