Broken Family Band

An Interview with Kenny Anderson - King Creosote.

By Alexandra McLoughlin.

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How long did it take you to write your new album ‘Bombshell’?

Well, half of the songs on ‘Bombshell’ were written after I released ‘KC Rules OK’, and then the other half were older songs. Some of them were put on the list for KC Rules OK because it was kind of a retrospective. It was the label’s pick of songs I’d already recorded and put out on my own label (Fence Recordings), so by design that was quite a strong album. Although I’ve got quite a back catalogue I don’t want every record I do being cherry picks out of the past, so I tried to balance this one with new songs and songs that the label knew were quite strong already. I think I’ve got the balance pretty much 50/50.

What is the story behind the songs on your album?

The new ones are pretty much my insecurities or paranoia of whatever I’m going through at this part of my life. I’ve got a daughter now, she’s 8 and there’s a song ‘Churches Whiteness’ about a fall out she and I had, and yeah, there’s others coming from a sort of older period in time just about all different things really. They are some comedy things on there. A lot of it I suppose is relationship based and then I suppose there’s ‘You’ve no clue Do You?’ which is a kind of a “who-done-it?” in the grand “Cluedo” tradition.

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