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Now (Nearly 36)

King Creosote album

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ17508546 ↗
Source-derived summary

Now (Nearly) 36 is the twenty-third studio album by King Creosote. It was released in 2003 on Fence Records.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Now (Nearly 36)” is king Creosote album. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nearly, King and Creosote, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. For this dossier, Nearly, King and Creosote is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “king Creosote album” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17508546. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Now (Nearly 36)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Now (Nearly 36) primary sources, Now (Nearly 36) archive and Nearly research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Now (Nearly 36)”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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This entry incorporates text from “Now (Nearly 36)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.