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Album Review: King Creosote – Flick The Vs (Domino)

By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 20 April 2009

‘Flick The Vs’ is the new album from King Creosote, The Kingdom of Fife’s own alternative folk hero. Top cat of the music scene in and out of the East Neuks of the Scottish coast, as the founder of Fence Records, he is a creative force that has admirably nurtured local talent and as a result, has considerably nourished the Scottish music scene. The Fence Collective, a sort of musical commune headed by King Creosote aka Kenny Anderson, is based in the beautiful, slumberous fishing village of Anstruther. No doubt the new material on ‘Flick The Vs’ will get an enthusiastic welcome by the local crowd at The Homegame, a great little festival, curated by the King of all things Fence himself. Set to take place over Easter, it continues to consistently draw a considerable crowd to the Kingdom for the past five years. This splendour and peace of the seaside village is channelled through the music of the artists like The Pictish Trail and James Yorkston, and of course, and runs deep throughout the material of the man himself. Anderson’s unique brand of alternative folk combines an unsullied, ambient electronic sound with more anticipated organic traditional formulaic folk, and his gentle Scottish drawl both compliments and humanises the electronic influence. He is an honest lyricist who tells it like it is, without leaning too heavily on the overly used folk crutches of labyrinths of metaphors and abstract imagery to relay his message. Lead single ‘Coast On By’ is an honest admission of his own insecurities with regards to his art, and his disillusions with the music business. ‘Flick The Vs’ is an accomplished personal project that is obviously very dear to the heart of a man, who himself, is very dear to many more. MB

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