02/12/2025
Brought to you by live at For the next Lo-Fi session unveils 10th Album - Artichoke, A Return to Unfiltered Vocal Electronica
For his milestone 10th album, Capitol K—aka Kristian Craig Robinson— presents a return to
off-kilter vocal electronica he ruled in the pre-to-post-millennial era. Produced at his home studio
on the island of Malta, where K now resides with a choice selection of synthesisers and drum
machines.
A noted recording engineer. The bulk of his collection remains in situ at London’s Total
Refreshment Centre’s recording facility from which K took an extended hiatus in 2024 after an
epic 13 year stint. (see: Alabaster DePlume, Dry Cleaning, Bas Jan, Bo Ningen Thurston
Moore, LOOSE MEAT)
Allegorically the album is artichoke: gestated in winter, bloomed in spring—a multi-layered
blossom, prickly yet vital, best taken with a generous pinch of salt. Themes covered are requisite
eulogies to love, the urbane, our digital age, and visiting the kiosk with your friends.
It started with a live request for an archive set of tracks like classic Pillow (2000) and insider gem
‘Love in Slow Motion’, from Happy Happy. After a decade-plus in mostly instrumental territory
Capitol K set out to reclaim and reinvent writing a new set of vocal tracks. The result is the album
you hold now.
To the misfits who stuck around and the new ears ready to listen.
This is K—fresh, bold, and unapologetically his. Artwork courtesy of