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King Creosote is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Prince, Jon Hopkins, Soom T and Jeff Buckley. Those roots explain a lot about how King Creosote arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Villagers, Keaton Henson, Phosphorescent, Andrew Bird and Laura Veirs, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Badly Drawn Boy and Jon Hopkins, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around King Creosote, reaching back through Prince and forward to Badly Drawn Boy. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Kenny Anderson, known primarily by his stage name King Creosote, is an independent singer-songwriter from Fife, Scotland. To date, Anderson has released over forty albums, with his latest full length, I DES, released in 2023. Anderson is also a member of Scottish-Canadian band The Burns Unit. In 2011, Anderson's collaborative album with Jon Hopkins, Diamond Mine, was nominated for the Mercury Prize and the Scottish Album of the Year Award. Astronaut Meets Appleman was also longlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year Award.
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King Creosote connections
King Creosote grew out of Prince, Jon Hopkins, Soom T and Jeff Buckley, shares an orbit with Villagers, Keaton Henson, Phosphorescent and Andrew Bird, went on to shape Badly Drawn Boy and Jon Hopkins. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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