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Diamond Mine

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King Creosote Format: Audio CD
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
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  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.59 x 4.96 x 0.31 inches; 0.64 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Imports
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ March 12, 2011
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Imports
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004RPQS5K
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 176 ratings

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L. Snow
5.0 out of 5 stars just gorgeous
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2011
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Here's an album you can listen to straight thru, again and again. Beautiful melodies sung in a sweet lilt supported by a well balanced mix of acoustic playing and electronic textures. The reviewers are right, it really is like an aural travelogue, but the concept isn't intrusive and doesn't grow old. Play this at a party and everyone will ask about it. Highly recommended.
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Angus Hepburn
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful album - they just lay emotion out there without ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2014
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A wonderful album - they just lay emotion out there without ramming it in your face - let it get to you - it's up to you. Irresistible music with the Fife cafe ambience.
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Robert M. Baird
4.0 out of 5 stars A quiet, subtle record that grows on repeated listening
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2012
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This record got high marks in England, where it was released. The singer has run a small record label and is very prolific. The producer has introduced subtle electronic effects and even field recordings to a very spare, acoustic set of songs. In some ways, it reminds me of Mark Hollis' (ex Talk Talk) solo effort. The record is available as a CD, and an expanded deluxe version with additional tracks either is or will be available soon. It is impeccably recorded and mastered and on repeat listens, seems to get better. It is very sophisticated. Although I am a hopeless music junkie and read most of the better music magazines, I had never heard of either of these guys but I can see why so many critics in England gave this record of the year status.
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Flashback
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful melodies & harmonies
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2016
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Beautiful melodies & harmonies, and a delightful collaboration between Jon Hopkins and Kenny ‘King Creosote’ Anderson. Just wish there were more tracks.
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Coach
5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2011
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This is an amazing work of art. I have listened to this over and over and it just gets better. Beautiful,calm,friendly and catchy. Whatmore can you ask.STRONGLY RECOMMEND.
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Tony B
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2015
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A wonderful album
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Red on Black
5.0 out of 5 stars King Creosote and John Hopkin - Talk Talk transfered to a Scottish Village?
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2011
4.5 stars

You may sense some frustration and impatience creeping in here but is it not time that all glad receivers of great music at last pay their dues and respect to "King Creosote' AKA Kenny Anderson? Having loved last years very polished "Side Show" by The Burns Unit consisting of nearly all the great luminaries of the East Nuek musical community in Scotland that is the Fence Collective, and Anderson's previous solo outing 2007's delightful pop epic "Bombshell" (check out "Nooks" and "Home in a sentence") it is becoming wearisome to keep stressing his talent. Yet he deserves to fill academies around the country and the Atlantic and also be lauded as a very special songwriter. This new album "Diamond Mine" has been seven years in gestation and sees our Scottish favourite teaming up with top keyboardist Jon Hopkin who has played with Brian Eno and that little know beat combo led by C. Martin and known as Coldplay. The album is described by Anderson as a "soundtrack to a romanticised version of a life lived in a Scottish coastal village", and what is fascinating is that the sounds and noise of this backdrop are threaded into the music. Thus the record opens with the lovely piano instrumental "First Watch" recorded over the backdrop of the voices of local people gently clanking of cups and plates in a church tea in a Fife village. It works perfectly as a sort of Scottish Thomas Newman style soundtrack and segues into the equally wonderful acoustic strumming of "John Taylors Month Away" where we encounter the plaintive vocal style of Anderson. It is infused with his gentle Fife accent that tells the tale of a conversation he had with a local fisherman in his tiny village home of Crail in the North East of Fife who Anderson admits "shattered every romantic notion I'd ever had of a life at sea". He did not shatter however Anderson's fine song craft and the song fades out over almost Radiohead style synths and euphoric voices. One would think all this beauty difficult to top but on the truly brilliant highlight "Bats in the attic" Anderson and Hopkin achieve this feat. It is ostensibly a song about the onset of middle age where Anderson regrets the "silver in my sideburns" and a "diet which is going to be the death of me". We find his heartbreaking tenor centre stage accompanied by lovely support from a female vocalist and Hopkins note perfect piano backdrop. As the song fades out with the repeated lines "its such a waste of all that we have" you feel the passing regret and genuine emotion. It is followed by the six minute plus of gentle melancholy set out in "Running on fumes" which demonstrates Anderson's way with words and fine acoustic picking guitar style.

The albums last three songs include "Bubble" which is infused with almost James Blake style effects and Hopkins comes into his own with lifting piano soundscapes which build to the songs crescendo. Penultimate song" Your own spell" is possibly closest to some of the balladry on "Bombshell" and contains an authentic Scottish feel to its glorious 3 minutes. Lastly the rather unsettling "With your young voice" repeats a refrain throughout and if truth be told is the one weak point on an otherwise glorious and concise album consisting of a suite of songs which screams out texture and depth. Music as an art form can often transfer the essence of place into sound more vividly than a picture or photo. No one who listens to "Diamond Mine" will fail to notice its inspiration or origins but more importantly you will come away enthralled by this luminous music. Well done Kenny and Jon, a true diamond.
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Carry
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful low-key music
Reviewed in Sweden on January 23, 2024
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Really great singer-songwriter vibe, vintage feel with undertones of something more modern. It feels genuine and personal, and has beautiful melodies which makes me relax. Best album I've heard in years. Very VERY happy I bought this cd.
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Daniel L.
5.0 out of 5 stars Una maravilla
Reviewed in Spain on December 17, 2023
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Pues eso, un disco estupendo.
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simone marani
5.0 out of 5 stars Molto bello
Reviewed in Italy on April 13, 2022
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Rilassante e di gran classe, registrazione di alto livello
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Hugh Wilson
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on March 2, 2018
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simply awesome musician. Cd arrived in great condition
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Paule
5.0 out of 5 stars ... einfach und wunderbar!
Reviewed in Germany on November 15, 2012
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King Creosote lernte ich über den (grandiosen) Soundtrack zum (grandiosen) Film "Hallam Foe" kennen und lieben. Der Titel "The someone else" passt wunderbar zu der Stimmung des Films.

Das Album Diamond Mine bzw. die Stimme von Creosote im musikalischen Arragement von Hopkins nimmt mich mit auf eine wundervoll poetische und zart melancholische Reise. Die einzelnen Stücke ergeben ein stimmiges Ganzes. Ich habe lange nicht mehr ein so einfaches, wunderbares und komplettes Album gehört.

1000 Sterne von 5 möglichen!
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