{"product_id":"astronaut-meets-appleman","title":"Astronaut Meets Appleman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAstronaut Meets Appleman\u003c\/em\u003e follows \u003cstrong\u003eKing Creosote's\u003c\/strong\u003e breakthrough record \u003cem\u003eFrom Scotland With Love\u003c\/em\u003e (2014) and his Mercury-nominated collaboration with Jon Hopkins, \u003cem\u003eDiamond Mine\u003c\/em\u003e (2011). It arrives replete with a chamber-rock rabble and then some: harps and bagpipes come as standard, as does silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe opening track \"\u003cem\u003eYou Just Want\u003c\/em\u003e\" is a seven-minute piece of hymnal drone-pop, its touchstones are the art of patience, scenes of mild bondage and Venus (in Furs). Elsewhere on the record, \"\u003cem\u003eMelin Wynt\u003c\/em\u003e\" is a lilting bagpipe-techno odyssey. This sense of place, disorientation and absence (in space, time, nature, hearts) underpins \u003cem\u003eAstronaut Meets Appleman\u003c\/em\u003e - most literally, perhaps, in the silence that unfolds amidst crestfallen lullaby \"\u003cem\u003eRules of Engagement\u003c\/em\u003e\". Or, as he intones on philharmonic lament \"\u003cem\u003eFaux Call\u003c\/em\u003e\", \"it's the silence that somehow says it all\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe KC idiom - equal parts geometry, self-deprecation, cosmic wonder and seafaring poetry. It was variously recorded at Analogue Catalogue in Ireland's County Down, An Tobar on the Isle of Mull, and Glasgow's Chem19 studios (HQ of long-time ally Paul Savage, who co-produced the LP with KC).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eAstronaut Meets Appleman\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eKing Creosote\u003c\/strong\u003e is still upsetting apple-carts and dealing with the fallout, still appraising love and life, the moon, the stars; tide tables, bagpipe scores, zeros and ones; mathematics, ticking clocks and the beat of our hearts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLP - Heavyweight 180 Gram Vinyl with Download.\u003cbr\u003e2LP - Limited Heavyweight 180 Gram Vinyl with Download with exclusive etched 10\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domino","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50409848013131,"sku":"404885","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50409847783755,"sku":"404884","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50409848144203,"sku":"404883","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0edab68f-7fbf-4417-a62b-cfbf497d1497_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726629971","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/astronaut-meets-appleman","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}