We all have choices, even if the ones which get presented seem like they might not be none at all; after the release of Astronaut Meets Appleman in 2016 Kenny Anderson eventually got round to considering the end of his King Creosote identity, a definitive closure he likened to a death in the family.
As usual though things rarely turn out as planned. After some fumblings trying to repeat his old creative formula, lockdown gave Anderson the opportunity to become obsessed with krautrock and modular synths, the output of that hours of tapes, but few realised songs.
Fully realised, these ideas make for an album which in places shares some DNA with Jon Hopkins co-project Diamond Mine, but also – whisper it quietly – with the synth heavy dream pop of The Pictish Trail’s Future Echoes. The half hour plus closer Drone In B# may not be for everyone, but on Burial Bleak and especially the sad but euphoric Blue Marbled Elm Trees, King Creosote’s afterlife sounds like a wonderful existence.
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