UK pressing of the 2007 album from the Scottish songstress and former vocalist for One Dove. Exaltation Of Larks is a heart-rending, soul-searching album that is haunted by the musical spirits of The Beach Boys, Nick Drake, Emmylou Harris, Alexander 'Skip' Spence, Neil Young and Dusty Springfield. Joined at the production helm by Kramer, Dot has created walls of production and harmony that transport the listener to somewhere else completely (in the same way the records that inspired Dot have always transported her to another world internally). 10 tracks. Cooking Vinyl.

知晓Dot Allison这个名字是缘于她在Death In Vegas里的哀怨毒辣, 以致我曾称呼她为"毒羯美人", 继而后来接触到她早期的组合One Dove, 尽管One Dove是一队精英组合,除了Dot Allison外还有电子怪才Jim Mckinven和Ian Carmichael. 但我却感觉不到Allison在里面有什么过人的表现,只不过是献声而已.

所以, 当我在毫无期待的情况下聆听到Allison这张颇旧的debut唱片"Afterglow"后,方知过去对她的一切认识皆是错误的, 她原来是不沾染尘世一点媚俗的仙女, 尽管带有点点的孤僻和忧郁, 她此刻变得如此沉重地在质问着:"She's lost, words mean nothing,She didn't want to conquer you. Her fingerprints are on your hands一种莫明迷失感在我身上蔓延. Dot Allison,轻灵缥缈地让我觉得是如此的遥不可及, 但为什么她又透出平实质朴呢, 我轻轻地牵上了她的手,漫步于落日余晖中.

如今, 这只新生的白鸽已经羽毛丰满, 她凝视着天宇, 拍打着翅膀, 向着新生寻觅, 风中留下的是她美好的歌声“Close your eyes, Let me take you to the sun, Burning slowly, Held together in the sky..."