NPR gave these guys a lot of play on their 2011’s Biggest Discoveries and Surprises show. I’d never heard of them, but this album is awesome. It took 7 years to make. Here’s what Bob Boilen had to say:

It’s a look and a study, in song and in sound, of life in a small Scottish town. It doesn’t romanticize it — it paints sort of hard pictures of what life is like there and what people think.

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - “Bats in the Attic”

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - “Bubble” (live)

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