I DES

Description

A quarter of a century after his consensual coronation and the release of his first solo album, Kenny Anderson aka King Creosote – DIY pop traveler, restorer of ancestral seaside homes, and former diamond miner – has released over 100 records. He has collaborated with artists such as Jon Hopkins, KT Tunstall, Lone Pigeon of the Beta Band, and has seen his songs covered and performed by artists such as Patti Smith and Simple Minds. His new album is called I DES and will be released on November 3rd. It is tempting to attribute King Creosote's renewed love for ambient and modular kicks to his collaborator Jon Hopkins, but it is clearly due to having seen Nils Frahm in concert; to a lasting fascination with loops. The album was composed between 2016 and 2020: there is something old (the trees), something blue (also the trees), something borrowed (home recordings and voices across the ages; lyrics from the distant past) and something new (King Creosote jokes that this album could have been titled We All Got Synths for Christmas). And so rests King Creosote: singer, songwriter, prevaricator with romantic nuances, father of three beautiful daughters. He was born in the winter of 1967. Floods and snowstorms raged that year, but everything grew and survived the storm.