Thrawn

If you don't know who King Creosote is, you are forgiven. . . for now. King Creosote has made a name for himself over the last decade releasing over forty albums on the seminal Fence label. Thrawn is an abridged collection to serve as an introduction to the North American marketplace. File this between Standing on the Beach, Catching Up With Depeche Mode and Substance (the Joy Division one, not the New Order one), except it sounds like none of them. If you like the works of Iver, McManus, Oldham and Browne, then you could do much worse than put this on your Victrola. The Scots word 'thrawn' has these definitions: 1. Twisted, crooked, distorted, misshapen, deformed, awry, turned in a wrong direction. 2. Of the mouth or features: wry, twisted with pain, rage, vexation, etc. 3. Of persons, animals or events: perverse, obstinate, contrary, cross-grained, intractable, dour, sullen. Often used to describe mechanical contrivances which refuse to function properly; also of speech: cross, peevish. So there you go.