Diamond Mine (King Creosote & Jon Hopkins album)

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Diamond Mine is a collaborative studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter King Creosote and British electronics musician Jon Hopkins, released on March 28, 2011 via Domino Records. Inspired by East Neuk of Fife, the album combines Creosote songs with field footage by Hopkins. After being released, Creosote stated: "I really do not know what to do next, because, in some ways, I'm at the top, I do not know where to go from here." The album was followed by EP, Honest Words in September 2011, and a double-side single, "John Taylor's Month Away"/"Missionary" in February 2012. The deluxe version of the album, titled Diamond Mine (Jubilee Edition) , released in 2012.

Diamond Mine was nominated for the 2011 Mercury Prize, with Creosote noting, "I did not expect it at all. [...] There are already a lot of people in the media nailing their colors to the mast with this note, and that's quite encouraging - to know that we have supporters, and many of them I do not expect to win but just to be on that list This is something I have ever experienced out there forever, and now here we are. Everything is all right. means not selling the recording! "The album sold 25,000 copies in 2011.

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Background and recording

Jon Hopkins previously worked with King Creosote, producing albums, Bombshell (2007), and part of Flick the Vs (2009). Diamond Mine took seven years to complete, with Creosote noting, "No goalposts are visible, it's just a song at a time." The album takes advantage of many Musique concrÃÆ'¨te works, with Jon Hopkins noting that the songs advocate "the romantic version of Fife.Many of my first experiences went there - about my first Homegame, when I fell in love with the place, and with Fence Records.This is a bit like the life version of my dreams. [...] It's like the way Paris appears in Amà © à © lie . "

Creosote stated that the songs, "The Racket They Made", "Admiral" and "Leslie", were originally planned to be included, but later abandoned and appeared in other releases. "Bat in Attic" was originally included in Creosote's album, My Nth Bit of Strange in Umpteen Years , with Hopkins noting, "You can hear the guitar part of the original version at the beginning, but I play it back through the simulation speaker phone to destroy quality, so maintaining the rhythm, but no record, gives me the freedom to completely change the chord of the song. "

King Creosote recorded his vocals in London.

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Critical reception

The album was released for favorable reviews, with Creosote noting, "It feels like it's the beginning of something, and to feel that so far ahead, after removing forty albums... oh my God! That means, I can still do this , This is not over. "

Accolades

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Track list

All songs written by Jon Hopkins and Kenny Anderson.

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References

Source of the article : Wikipedia