Diamond Mine (King Creosote and Jon Hopkins album)

Diamond Mine is a collaborative studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter King Creosote and English electronica musician Jon Hopkins, released on 28 March 2011 through Domino Records.

"[1] The album was subsequently followed by the EP, Honest Words in September 2011, and the double a-side single, "John Taylor's Month Away"/"Missionary" in February 2012.

"[8] The album makes substantial use of musique concrète, with Jon Hopkins noting that the songs suggest "a romanticised version of Fife.

"[1] Creosote stated that the songs, "The Racket They Made", "Admiral" and "Leslie", were initially planned for inclusion, but were subsequently abandoned and appear on other releases.

[8] "Bats in the Attic" was initially included on Creosote's performance-only album, My Nth Bit of Strange in Umpteen Years, with Hopkins noting, "You can hear the guitar part from his original version at the beginning, but I played it back through a mobile phone speaker simulation to decimate the quality, so that it retained its rhythm, but none of its notes, giving me freedom to change the chords of the song completely.