King Creosote - KC Rules OK
(20th Anniversary 2025 Remaster Edition)
Release Date: September 26th 2025
Pre Order Date: August 12th 2025 (2pm BST)
Formats
1LP Limited Edition White Vinyl & 2CD Limited Edition Deluxe
King Creosote to Reissue Landmark Album 'KC Rules OK' for 20th Anniversary
To celebrate two decades since its initial release, King Creosote's landmark album, 'KC Rules OK,' will be reissued on September 26th, 2025 and will be made available as a 1LP white vinyl and a 2CD Deluxe edition. The collectible white vinyl will be the first time this album has been available on vinyl since its original 2005 release.
Originally released in the UK on September 19th, 2005, 'KC Rules OK' quickly became a fan favourite, solidifying King Creosote (aka Kenny Anderson) as a unique voice in British indie folk. The album spawned several notable singles, including "Bootprints," "Favourite Girl," and "678," all of which showcased Anderson's distinctive songwriting.
The 2CD Deluxe edition pulls together a collection of B sides, songs and remixes, many from the fabled Chorlton And the Wh’Earlies unreleased promo CD including four songs that are completely commercially unreleased and are currently unavailable digitally..
KC Rules OK was King Creosote’s debut album for warner Music, and in December 2009, ranked #6 in The Skinny's "Scottish Albums of the Decade" poll.
Regarding the 20th anniversary reissue Anderson says
“I’ve reached a point in life where nearly everything good is in the rear view mirror. When in spring 2005 the Earlies adopted king creosote to record a 4 track EP for ‘Names On Records’, the brief outlined a look back on a decade’s worth of unreleased homespun recordings, dig up a few gems worthy of polishing. Two heavily flawed diamonds - ‘Marguerita Red’ and ‘Bootprints’ - were buried deepest below several failed bands and a 2:1 in late 80s Electrical Engineering. Tom Knott at Airtight Studios fast introduced me to digital recording, and in the space of a fortnight, 4 songs quickly became 16, a bewildering work rate compared to my previous experiences with quarter inch tape. Other than the machine driven ‘teek-tok-tok-tok’ for a metronome, everything was to be played on real instruments by Lancastrian red rosy hands, directed by Christian Madden’s unerring ability to not only settle on a good idea, but to land on the right idea first time, every time. Despite our 4 song budget netting 16 completed songs, our just desserts looked awfully small and still a long, long way Off. 20 years on, with my binoculars the right way round, I can properly see (and hear) every detail in the record we made, a timeless album grown so old already that in a few months it might just sound like the future Again.”
Pre-orders for 'KC Rules OK' 20th Anniversary Reissue (1LP white vinyl and 2CD Deluxe) will be available HERE from August 12th
Tracklists
Limited Edition White Vinyl 1LP
Side One
1.NOT ONE BIT ASHAMED
2.YOU ARE COULD I?
3. THE VICE-LIKE GIST OF IT
4. BOOTPRINTS
5. LOCKED TOGETHER
Side 2
1. JUMP AT THE CATS
2. GUESS THE TIME
3. MY FAVOURITE GIRL
4. I’LL FLY BY THE SEAT OF MY PANTS
5. 678
6. MARGUERITA
2CD (2025 Remastered Deluxe Version)
CD1
1. NOT ONE BIT ASHAMED
2. YOU ARE COULD I?
3. THE VICE-LIKE GIST OF IT
4. BOOTPRINTS
5. LOCKED TOGETHER
6. JUMP AT THE CATS
7. GUESS THE TIME
8. MY FAVOURITE GIRL
9. I’LL FLY BY THE SEAT OF MY PANTS
10. 678
11. MARGUERITA RED
CD2
1. NOT ONE BIT ASHAMED (MODLANG REMIX)
2. CASINO CLUBBING
3. LITTLE HEART
4. YOU WANT TO WALK
5. FROWN
6. ACQUAINTANCE (THE SOMEONE ELSE DEAF MUTES REMIX)
7. 678 (B&Q VERSION)
8. MARGUERITA RED (B&Q VERSION)
9. SO FORLORN (B&Q VERSION)
10. BOOTPRINTS (HOT CHIP REMIX)
11. THE VICE-LIKE GIST OF IT (JON HOPKINS REMIX)
