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Featuring associates Pip Dylan and James Yorkston, ‘…Musakal Boatride’ is the latest output from Fence leader King Creosote (aka the Kenny self-referenced in the album title). And it’s a thing of beauty. Like the Art Garfunkel of Fife, King Creosote has a masterful touch with melancholy and lyrical bewilderment, packaged into joyful folk-pop journeys. There’s been no finer time to tap into his musings, with this his most fluent, solid – and surprisingly – most accessible album to date. The sound is neatly-trimmed, the voice pushed clearly out front, and through the doomed tales of Counselling, the gentle sentiments of So Forlorn, and the sense of distance offered via A Friday Night In New York, the emotions are constantly left to tug somewhere near the heart. Now open yours to it.

Ian Fletcher
CWAS #13 - Autumn 2003

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