King Creosote & Jon Hopkins: Diamond Mine – review

(Domino)It's easy to forget this album is on even while it's actually playing, such is its understatedness. The opening track was recorded at a church fete: cutlery clatters mutedly, families chat, and, just as you're wondering what's going on, piano chords trickle in, soothing you to sleep. Well, not quite – but inducing a feeling of drowsy security may not be far from what Fife songwriter King Creosote had in mind. With electronica producer Hopkins, he's reinterpreted seven songs from his 4...

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