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King Creosote - Coast On By (2009)

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Uploaded by on Mar 25, 2009

On 27th April 2009, Domino will release Coast on By, the first single taken from King Creosotes new album, Flick The Vs (released on 20th April 2009).

King Creosote explains here how the song came about:

"It's all well and good when a pal offers to work on and record one of your songs, but when that pal is Steve Mason (Beta Band, King Biscuit Time, Black Affair) then up goes the ante. With album Flick the Vs well under way, and with no sign yet of a contender for the 3 minute pop hit thereon, I arrived chez Mason clutching a string of uneven verses each spitting out some facet of the tour-tired "leave me alone to my small village" blues. There followed 3 happy accidents:

- During the run thru' Steve muttered "is that it?" in such a tone of voice that, in fear of ridicule, I ad-libbed a positive sounding one line mantra to the end of take one.

- Whilst I made the tea, Steve "lost" my original guitar take and mistook my ad-libbed mantra for "the hook".

- A bungled cut n paste somehow morphed a duff bridge into a blinding chorus - three times?!

And that's it - the precise art of song craft lies in the choice of "Coast On By" over the more accurate title "two grumpy old men realise that, together, they've created the very monster both have spent entire careers baiting, only for it to sneak up and bite them in unbridled joy".

Directed by John Maclean

www.kingcreosote.com/
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  • i can't get this out of my head. thanks triple J!

  • Me to, power to Triple J and King Creosote

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  • FIFE DIED IN FIFE

  • I think I like this.

  • Yaaaaaaaay! East Neuk of Fife! Beautiful place! I'm from there! :)

  • Fife FTW! I mean, I don't live there, but I'm pretty close. Love KC :L

  • singing fish! awesome.

  • Wow...such a refreshing sound !!

  • Going to see King Kenny this weekend, this song sounds great, Looking forward to it

  • He's from Fife - East of Scotland.

  • yeah, he's a scottish artist, but i don't think you can really define him. specially if you compare this album to his last couple. all really different in their own right. but all damn good!!

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