KC RULES OK 20TH ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE
King Creosote has re-released the KC Rules OK album in honor of it’s 20 year anniversary in 2025. The album is available in a limited edition white vinyl and 2CD with bonus & remixed tracks.
The KC Rules OK vinyl is the first time the album has been available in this format since its release in 2005.
The 2CD features bonus tracks such as ‘Casino Clubbing’ and ‘Little Heart’ as well as remixed tracks by artists such as Jon Hopkins, Hot Chip & more. What a treat!
The album is available to buy here.
A word from kc on the 20th anniversary re-release…
“I’ve reached a point in life where nearly everything good is in the rear view mirror. When in spring 2005 the Earlies adopted king creosote to record a 4 track EP for ‘Names On Records’, the brief outlined a look back on a decade’s worth of unreleased homespun recordings, dig up a few gems worthy of polishing. Two heavily flawed diamonds – ‘Marguerita Red’ and ‘Bootprints’ – were buried deepest below several failed bands and a 2:1 in late 80s Electrical Engineering.
Tom Knott at Airtight Studios fast introduced me to digital recording, and in the space of a fortnight, 4 songs quickly became 16, a bewildering work rate compared to my previous experiences with quarter inch tape. Other than the machine driven ‘teek-tok-tok-tok’ for a metronome, everything was to be played on real instruments by Lancastrian red rosy hands, directed by Christian Madden’s unerring ability to not only settle on a good idea, but to land on the right idea first time, every time. Despite our 4 song budget netting 16 completed songs, our just desserts looked awfully small and still a long, long way off.
20 years on, with my binoculars the right way round, I can properly see (and hear) every detail in the record we made, a timeless album grown so old already that in a few months it might just sound like the future again.”