King Creosote And Jon Hopkins - John Taylor's Month Away

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3...according to our Clinton on Fri 03 Feb, 2012.

Try as I might, I'm just not overly keen on this King Creosote and Jon Hopkins album that has been lauded by everyone, everywhere it seems. I certainly can't hear the Talk Talk influences that have been bandied around. This is not at all to say its awful, Quite the opposite - its very pleasant folky music with a nice spaciousness which builds simply and surely. It just doesn't inspire, I find King Creosotes voice thin and the nautical subject matter tiresome. The flip is more accordion-led folky matter but stomping along nicely with a few subtle electronics. Nice although a conversation about the preposterousness of the packaging of the new Swans album has proven more entrancing and so the single is relegated to what it is, nice, pleasant background music.

• Their farewell 7” single, ‘John Taylor’s Month Away’ is joined by a brand new arrangement of the King Creosote classic ‘Missionary.’

• Limited to 500 copies.

• Released last year to outstanding reviews, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins’ ‘Diamond Mine’ was an album that grew in people’s hearts and minds, earned itself a Mercury Music Prize nomination and found itself included in many magazines’ end of year polls.

• As 2012 gets properly underway, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins are all set to tour ‘Diamond Mine’ as a complete work one last time.

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