UPDATE October 5 2005
New On The Chart
King Creosote (Kenny Anderson to his mates) bounds into view with his second full album release in less than six months but is it, one has to ask, a case of prolificacy over quality? While similar ‘folk’ artists have previously issued LP's at mind-boggling speed which clearly fell a little flat compared to their previous material (
Devendra Banhart springs to mind here), happily no such fallibilities can be applied to
'KC Rules OK'. In fact, if anything, he’s getting better and better.
'KC Rules OK' is in many ways a very different beast from April’s quite excellent
‘Rocket D.I.Y’. While the latter was comprised mainly of home recorded demo's given a quick polish at the mixing stage,
'KC Rules OK' sees proper studio recordings with Anderson backed by musical buddies
The Earlies and even hosts an appearance on one track from
Kate Tunstall. The result is a multi-layered, fuller sounding
King Creosote.
Opener
'Not One Bit Ashamed' features tuba, electric piano and a whole host of percussion when previously it would just have been strummed into a tape recorder on the living room table. Likewise
'The Vice Like Gist Of It' is augmented by quartet like strings, while
'Bootprints' has Madness style ‘comedy’ saxophone, some xylophone and Hammond organ.
Of course
King Creosote's ace card is probably his ability to write fantastic ballads and in this regard he comes up trumps once again.
'Locked Together' is thoroughly lovely and would represent the pinnacle of most songwriters careers but this is the man that wrote
‘Circle My Demise’ and
‘The Someone Else’ and as the album comes to a close we get a song as good as either of them.
‘Fly By The Seat Of My Pants’ might not be a radical departure in music, essentially a guitar ballad with some accordion swell but when someone can project emotion through his voice like Kenny Anderson can, it matters not, and the result is one of the best tracks of the year.
King Creosote's ‘KC Rules OK’ scores 7.18 and enters Konstantiranks at no.8
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KONSTANTIRANKS 2005 (CURRENT STANDINGS)
1. two gallants - THE THROES 7.66
2. edgar 'jones' jones - SOOTHING MUSIC FOR STRAY CATS 7.62*
3. mogwai - GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONS 7.40*
4. the fiery furnaces - EP 7.40*
5. antony & the johnsons - I AM A BIRD NOW 7.38*
6. the broken family band - WELCOME HOME, LOSER 7.23
7. viarosa - WHERE THE KILLERS ROAM 7.18
8. king creosote - KC RULES OK 7.18
9. edan - BEAUTY AND THE BEAT 7.16
10. arcade fire - FUNERAL 7.15*
11. the white stripes - GET BEHIND ME SATAN 7.12*
12. king creosote - ROCKET D.I.Y 7.12*
13. roots manuva - AWFULLY DEEP 7.08*
14. smog - AIN'T TOO MUCH TO LOVE A RIVER 7.00*
15. mark mulcahy - IN PURSUIT OF YOUR HAPPINESS 7.00*
16. laura cantrell - HUMMING BY THE FLOWERED VINE 7.00*
17. the rakes - CAPTURE/RELEASE 7.00
18. mek obaam - YOU AND I 7.00
19. the go-betweens - OCEANS APART 6.94*
20. caribou - THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS 6.94*
21. teenage fanclub - MAN MADE 6.91*
22. amon tobin - CHAOS THEORY 6.90*
23. four tet - EVERYTHING ECSTATIC 6.88*
24. matt sweeney & bonnie prince billy - SUPERWOLF 6.86*
25. spoon - GIMME FICTION 6.85
26. whitey - THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL IS A TRAIN 6.85*
27. holopaw - QUIT +/OR FIGHT 6.81
28. thievery corporation - THE COSMIC GAME 6.80*
29. fog - 10th AVENUE FREAKOUT 6.76*
30. low - THE GREAT DESTROYER 6.72*
31. clor - CLOR 6.72
32. sons and daughters - THE REPULSION BOX 6.70*
33. lcd soundsystem - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM 6.66*
34. the clientele - STRANGE GEOMETRY 6.66
35. aesop rock - FAST CARS, DANGER, FIRE & KNIVES 6.64*
36. eastern lane - THE ARTICLE 6.63*
37. emiliana torrini - FISHERMAN'S WOMAN 6.62*
38. stephen malkmus - FACE THE TRUTH 6.58
39. malcolm middleton - INTO THE WOODS 6.75*
40. cagedbaby - WILL SEE YOU NOW 6.50
41. vanessa and the o's - LA BALLADE D'O
42. brakes - GIVE BLOOD 6.50
43. beck - GUERO 6.43*
44. bloc party - SILENT ALARM 6.42*
45. sufjan steven - ILLINOIS 6.41
46. minotaur shock - MARITIME 6.41*
47. field music - FIELD MUSIC 6.41
48. jose gonzalez - VENEER 6.40*
49. the shortwave set - THE DEBT COLLECTION 6.30
50. the national - ALLIGATOR 6.19*
51. momus - OTTO SPOOKY 5.53
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tbr - sebastian tellier - POLITICS
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