King Creosote Shares Double A-Side Single Susie Mullen/Walter De La Nightmare
Monday, 05 October 2020
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Calum Gordon
King Creosote has shared a double a-side single.
Susie Mullen and Walter De La Nightmare mark the Fife-based musician's first new music since his 2016 LP 'Astronaut Meets Appleman'.
The former finds Kenny Anderson exploring a new sound fusing driving drums and synths. The latter, meanwhile, is a more serene brew of piano and violins. He said:
"To find the source of inspiration for the music of 'Susie Mullen' you need only squeeze the belly of a souvenir camel toy from Egypt to unleash a rather urgent and tinny sounding nursery rhyme in Arabic, jam along in the key of Bb. A Crail live audience in 2017 heard the debut collaboration between KC and camel."
Discussing Walter de la Nightmare, he added: "The lyrics reference a song by Billy Pilgrim RIP from Fence Sampler #3 in which Walter de la Mare recounts a lightning strike on a large old tree. Nota bene, I am fully aware that 'lymph nodes' and 'emphatic' do not conflate to 'node lymphatic', but it sounds good to my ear, and it provides a much-needed rhyme. Both Susie and Walter have taken over two decades to make their pilgrimage from Egypt to Ullapool."
Both tracks will be released on 7" vinyl via Domino on November 27.
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