I DES

Description

A quarter of a century after his self-bestowed coronation and the release of his first solo album, Kenny Anderson aka King Creosote - DIY pop voyager, restorer of ancestral seaside houses or even diamond miner - has released more than 100 records. He has collaborated with artists such as Jon Hopkins, KT Tunstall, Lone Pigeon from 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 3. It is tempting to attribute King Creosote’s renewed love of ambient and modular kicks to his collaborator Jon Hopkins, but this 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 (domestic recordings and voices through 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, romantic-tinged prevaricator, 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.