JON COLLIN - High Peak Selections LP Folk and triumphant

and triumphant

Like Madden's nylon finger-picking

Frederik Leroux

or that was kept covered in dust in the shell of some old recording studio soon to be torn down

transforming what at first seems like a collection of bridges into fully realized songs

JON COLLIN - High Peak Selections LP Folk and triumphant'This beautifully packaged, reassuringly heavy album is a child wise before its time; generous and a little bit mysterious. Things kick off in an almost industrial vein with the spooky Prelude to CK Junior Blues in which nary a note is plucked. Thin, tinny, feedback drones croak over heavy amp fuh and inner spring clack. Strings are sliced, with a knife perhaps, or certainly menaced in some way, until the ghost gives up and returns to the ether