Recorded in churches and industrial buildings in the the North of England, and originally released on Winebox Press in 2013, High Peak Selections was the first full-length vinyl release by Jon Collin. Across its six mostly improvised tracks, it showcases an artist somewhat at odds with much of the wave of fingerpicking acoustic guitarists that was in the middle of breaking around this time. While the base technique here is still fingerstyle, his use of various preparations, metal slides, feedback and rudimentary amplification give the recordings here a rawness and clanging resonance that often sits more comfortably in the worlds of noise and industrial music than it does folk or blues. Though the guitar and amplifier are close-mic'd for maximum intimacy, his enthusiasm for inviting in external sounds that has since become more explicit across his discography is also evident here, in the shuffling of audience members on church benches or the sound of heavy machinery operating in another part of a building, for example.