Scott Walker "Bish Bosch"

Yep, bosch definitely pronounced "bosh"

now can someone tell me how to pronounce "Miele"?

is it german? it's probably "meel-uh"

It is. And it is.

Miele is a German surname. Most famously the name of the electronic appliances manufacturer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miele

More reports from the field, in this case J. Edward Keyes on Twitter:

"Nothing clears a room like removing a brain" - standout lyric on the new Scott Walker record.

So much tubax on this Scott Walker record!

He added on FB:

It is his most violent record, in every possible respect.

kinda guessed that from the album sleeve

And further!

It's a lot more aggressive over all; a lot more guitar, too. The strings are more high-neck horror-movie style that shoot in out of nowhere and terrify. I'm still absorbing, but the Bosch reference isn't accidental. It has that same gruesome feel.

that description of the strings fits in with SW's avowed love of Bartok (from whom the 'horror movie style' largely derived)

I haven't anticipated a new album so much in years. From the description it sounds like it's going to be amazing, if just maybe a little TOO Scott Walkerish for even Scott Walker?

The Drift was, for me, basically a further exploration of the sound of Tilt (which is fine seeing as Tilt was my all time favorite record). As great as The Drift is, though, there was a bit of disappointment for me that it did not represent the same kind of unthinkable leap and break that had separated Tilt and Climate of Hunter, and Climate from Nite Flights.

To put it another way, The Drift was deeply satisfying and moving but not STARTLING.

I'm letting myself hope the new one will actually do my head in in a new way.

^^^

mostly agree with this, except that I think The Drift is better than Tilt. More refined. From what I'm reading about this new one it looks like it's just going further in the same direction, which is fine with me (more than fine really, should be amazing).

if just maybe a little TOO Scott Walkerish for even Scott Walker?

yeah, the documentary was the first time i really thought he was drifting into unintentional self-parody, and the news on this new one is a little bit o_O in that respect.

still like climate of hunter best of his late-period (that is, the last 30 years!) LPs, i think.

and we have a track listing

1 'See You Don’t Bump His Head'
2 Corps De Blah

3 Phrasing

4 SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)

5 Epizootics!

6 Dimple

7 Tar

8 Pilgrim

9 The Day The "Conducator" Died

Is 9 a follow up to "the Night that Minnie Timperley died" ?

Hmm, interesting -- Conducator was one of the titles that Nicolae Ceaucescu held when he ruled Romania, a bit like Mao's Great Helmsman. It's almost like a sequel to "The Old Man's Back Again" more than anything else!

One could possibly add 'Clara' to this connection as well, iirc?

Yeah that's the first association that came to my mind.

I would be genuinely sad if there was a new SW album without a song about a murderous dictatorship.

"Buzzers" another in the dictator theme.

There's also the virus sequence: "The Plague," "Cue," "Epizootics!"

Well...

I've heard it.

All earlier reports and descriptions accurate.

Sample line:

"This is my job...I don't come around and shut off the red light...while YOU work..."

Also, the closing seconds confirm it could only have been released in December.

That's a pretty funny lyric.

he rejected: "I don't come to where you work and slap the dick out of your mouth."

haha that was what I thought of too!

"I don't come to where you work and punch your donkey on the streets of Galway."

Just seems like a lyric that deliberately deflates the ~serious visionary~ persona. (I am assuming the red light is a double meaning = recording booth)

Ha, I CAN say that the song with said lyric in it has lots of similar lines, plenty of hoary old vaudeville chestnuts and the like. The net effect is said deflation AND increased creepiness thanks to the delivery. Lars Gotrich just called the album "more harrowing but more human than The Drift" and I'll go with that.

Oh also: 73 minutes long.

Oh also: 73 minutes long.

Jesus.

I'll be making A and B side playlists for this one then.

In the face of any accusations of "Scott Walker, self-parodist", I'd like to note that the guy has always made very funny records, despite his reputation as a serious cat

totally

"Can't go by a man with brain grass" lol you are correct

Agree. So many moments on The Drift sound like mentalism on paper but work brilliantly in practice.

Another leaked video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrMBBt1BYTc

Oh wow, a ton of albums on his MySpace, from the Walker Brothers on (gotta click Album; MySpace Radio tries insert itself after playing an isolated SW track.Can always pause Album when needed) http://www.myspace.com/thegodlikegeniusofscottwalker/music/albums

Also, the closing seconds confirm it could only have been released in December.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 October 2012 14:20 (Yesterday) Permalink

keeping my fingers crossed this is true in the 'bob dylan christmas album' sense

In the face of any accusations of "Scott Walker, self-parodist", I'd like to note that the guy has always made very funny records, despite his reputation as a serious cat

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, October 5, 2012 11:04 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah but not as much on his last three records though.

In '68 he released a song called The Amorous Humphrey Plugg. Title alone is totally lol-worthy.

heard the first track off of this, think it's a hit!

"Nothing clears a room like removing a brain."

do any cartoon characters make a cameo on this one?

yeah but not as much on his last three records though.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, October 6, 2012 5:43 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wrong

You could easily picture this in the current top ten

I hope he does another solo acoustic number for the closer like the last three.

yeah but not as much on his last three records though.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, October 6, 2012 5:43 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wrong

― We demand justice: who murdered Chanel? (Matt P), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 12:18 PM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

really? i guess i just don't hear much humor on the recent ones--maybe a bit of it on the drift. i'd be interested to hear where you find humor in these LPs.

There's not much humour in Tilt, is there? There's a fair bit in The Drift but it's one of the reasons i don't like the record very much - punching donkeys in Galway & donald duck voices & easily seeing this in the current top ten - it's just not my sense of humour.

I only ever found those funny when they were pointed out to me as funny. Before that I just found those bits terrifying.

I think the demonic duck on The Drift is supposed to be terrifying AND funny.

Whereas the Rick Dees one...

Lots of musical jokes. The tape rewinding... "Birds!" Pst pst pst pst! Pst pst pst!
And you could play Xiu xiu? or "The drift"? with "This is not a cornhusk doll / dipped in blood in the moonlight / like what happened in America" or the "pee-pee soaked trousers" bit

Not haw haw funny but macabre and witty and definitely not 100% serious