Recorded over a weekend in the tiny meeting hall of the Anstruther Improvements Association, the four tracks of this EP boast the unmistakably grubby prints of our very own King Creosote, who recorded and mixed the songs as well as contributing his own trademark flourishes of falsetto vocal, accordion, and various unidentifiable percussive instruments.

The songs featured are all glisteningly new – only barely complete, in fact, when Dan’s lyric book blew out of his van door in Anstruther and straight into the harbour, from which he was able to retrieve only a few sodden sheets. Despite this early crisis, the words possess all the clock-stopping impact we have come to expect of his songwriting – full of pathos, and achingly familiar even in their specificity. ‘Big Ten Four’ represents a tribute to the late Paul Carter, much-loved Edinburgh artist, whose work adorns the cover of the EP:

“I still wear your cast-off shirt – I lose a button, man that hurts… We don’t need this memorabilia.”