King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine flac album

Diamond Mine is a collaborative studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter King Creosote and English electronica musician Jon Hopkins, released on 28 March 2011 through Domino Records. Inspired by the East Neuk of Fife, the album combines Creosote's songs with field recordings by Hopkins. Upon release, Creosote stated: "I really don't know what to do next, because, in some ways, I'm at that peak. I don't know where to go from here

On accepting the offer to work with King Creosote (Kenny Anderson), producer Jon Hopkins dove into the Scottish singer-songwriter’s extensive discography of releases that stretched from the beginnings of the last decade to the present, picking lost gems and refreshing new ones to arrive at the quality, albeit short, tracklist for Diamond Mine. Diamond Mine’s role as a ‘transportation-al album’, to anywhere really for any individual, comes before any intended, or not intended, geographical references. What’s interesting about Diamond Mind is the fleeting subtly with which any outside influences – that is, names or geographical locations – are implemented into its auditory contents. Its creators have made it clear that the various places where the album takes listeners is completely up to them: ‘We're not in any rush to tell the story, whatever that story is,’ Anderson concludes.

Kenny 'King Creosote' Anderson and Jon Hopkins. Diamond Mine is a remarkable album. Seven years in the making and seven tracks long, it's a collection of spare, emotionally charged songs wrapped in layers of gorgeous instrumentation, 'found sounds' and ambient noise. The overall effect is extremely moving and, from a production point of view, fascinating. Nominated for the 2011 Mercury Music Prize, Diamond Mine is now getting a richly deserved deluxe re-release, packaged with additional singles and the excellent recent EP Honest Words, which reveals a subtle progression towards a more overtly electronic sound. A variety of musical influences ranging across folk, classical and electronica are apparent, but what's harder to pin down is exactly what makes the production such a mesmerising, involving experience.

Diamond Mine is a collaborative studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter King Creosote and English electronica musician Jon Hopkins, released on 28 March 2011 through Domino Records. I don't know where to go from here. Jon Hopkins was born in 1979 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and grew up in nearby Wimbledon. He first became aware of electronic music after hearing early house music on the radio at the age of seven or eight, and also became a fan of Depeche Mode and the Pet Shop Boys. These records inspired an early fascination with synths.

Recorded over the course of several years when both of the involved parties could find time or be arsed, to call Diamond Mine ‘gently ambient’ would be li. whole, at night, in the dark, with some Scotch and a blanket. License NME. Site User Terms.