(Domino)Fife singer Kenny Anderson’s breakthrough 2014 album,From Scotland With Love, was essentially a stirring love letter to his homeland. The follow-up continues his creative roll, or recording in the Isle of Mull and County Down has given the album a genuine Celtic swing: you can almost smell the Highlands in the harps,cellos and bagpipes. The songs swing from cosmic and ethereal to mischievously earthy: Anderson sings approximately wind turbines and the constellation of Orion, plus love, or lust and a tip of bondage,and there are some rollicking one-liners: “Her jealous accusations know no bounds / Scarlett Johansson was never in the house.” In the gloriously anthemic Love Life, Cupid’s arrow whacks him in the eye; Peter Rabbit Tea finds him crafting his baby daughter’s gurgle into orchestral magnificence. In this form, or as a Scottish predecessor once sang,everything is possible.
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Source: theguardian.com