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Diamond Mine

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Jon Hopkins has always joined the dots from underground electronica to mainstream – producing for Brian Eno and Coldplay, and combining envelope-pushing synth experimentation with wide-skies romanticism suited to big festival stages in his own work. The equally prolific Kenny “King Creosote” Anderson, of Scotland’s Fence Collective, has always blurred the lines between folk, indie and other singer-songwriter traditions. After Hopkins produced an album for Anderson in 2008 they came back together for this small but perfectly formed 2011 collaboration. Hopkins doesn’t over-egg the electronics, but nor is this in any way trad: his ambient tendencies creating little frames for Anderson’s miniature, sweetly-keened stories.

Joe Muggs

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