Jackie Leven - Straight Outta Caledonia... The Songs Of Jackie Leven LP

I knew of the late Jackie Leven as a prolific Scottish singer-songwriter with slightly baroque leanings but have loved having my perception of him as an artist shattered by this “hits” comp!

Collecting tracks from his solo career between 1994 and 2011, the tracks range from new wavey forgotten hits, to neo-soul bangers, outsider pop masterpieces, and Celtic-inflected folk, all underpinned by Leven’s top shelf songwriting, crystalline baritone, and underrated guitar playing. 

The kind of music that seems like the middle ground between Arthur Russell’s pop output and the UK folk-rock of John Martyn, Sandy Denny, and the Thompsons.
-Mitch (Repressed Records)