Scott Walker "Bish Bosch"

i will go to reckless as soon as i'm not broke as fuck

if anyone has mog, it's streaming on there in full.

Can't bear to stream this one. Need full spectrum for my boy Scott.

Haven't really had the chance to listen to it yet but one thing i must say is that the packaging for this thing is just fucking tremendous, size limitations of the CD format aside. If you were thinking of skipping the physical version, DON'T DO IT!

I have to wait till Xmas as I've asked for the vinyl... I feel like I'm about 6 y/o with all the Christmassy excitement

http://beardrock.com/reviews/scott-walker

"The centre of the album is "SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)", the closest that the album gets to traditional coherence and also it's most difficult piece - a twenty minute musical story about a time-travelling dwarf, born in the fifth century, who eventually becomes a dwarf star (the SDSS1416+13B of the title) and dies. Yep."

Stopped at Earwax on the way home. They sold out of the CD.

SFJ piece in this week's New Yorker. Just snuck a read of the first page in the bathroom at work. He tells SFJ that he generally composes (after creating the lyrics) at a keyboard which translates what he's playing into score. Don't think I'd heard that before.

... he says the same in the Wire interview. I'm not convinced by this album tbf.

... I mean tbh

http://thequietus.com/articles/10908-scott-walker-interview

Not sure where I saw this said, thought it was this thread but Ctrl-F is turning up naught, but: Lulu > Bish Bosch. And that's coming from someone that loved the previous two.

brandon soderberg said that

"I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours"

Thanks, that's where I saw it. (xpost)

Scott's film picks for some online streaming thing:
http://thequietus.com/articles/10918-scott-walker-curates-curzon-on-demand-film-season

Had less than 10 dollars in my bank account but discovered 20 bucks credit on one of my cards last night, so hello Bish Bosch.

Just finished my first listen. This was so much greater than I dared hope. Transcendental KO. The Drift now feels like a transitional record en route to this. This may be as good as Tilt. Fuckin' A.

Was seriously ready for disappointment.

My copy is waiting at home.

How is it doing in the midweeks? Anyone?

I mean, Tilt made #27 and The Drift #51.

Have we discussed the fact that on the last track ('...'conducator'...') Scott plays everything himself? Not just voice + guitar as before but a whole arrangement? Stunning track.

Here's something I'd never seen till it was mentioned in The Quietus review:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q2EoduCLKYY

Was he doing someone a favor? Did they throw money at him? Did he do it for fun?

I don't know the story behind it but I do know that, even at the time, it seemed like a coup to get him to do it.

Currently collecting the more substantial interviews (Guardian, Pfork, Quietus) into a single PDF cause I'm a fuckin' dork like that...

'Wire' as well.

Yeah that I'll be buying.

I'm loving this. Second listen today.

I'm not loving the drum sounds.

did scott walker fart

are those farts real or autotuned?

this album is like the worst ever btw, like if I were to spend 10 mins making a fake scott walker album it would prob sound like this not trying to big myself up or anything btw

ixiiivixvvi

We should have done a precover of this one.

Now he says it.

:-(

Nah, I'm looking forward to tomorrow's remix/working the Christmas thing and the Beatles track.

Woouldn't have had the time to do that one as well

agree with soderberg that Lulu's better but I loved Lulu so that really isn't as damning as it should be. love Tilt but this one isn't clicking with me like it should

ixiiivixvvi is a total hook. best track on the album (for now).
not sure if i like it as much as the drift, but... enjoying hearing it again and again, that's for sure.

Scott appears on this episode of J cocker's show, which expires in 2 hours:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p3lgz

interview starts at about 46 minutes in.

this album isn't very enjoyable to listen to. i like the horns on epizootics! and other little moments like that. it's certainly no Lulu, which I liked as well.

I've managed three tracks so far. The opening track is pretty strong, in a bludgeony way, Corps De Blah has several beautiful 30sec chunks which don't add up to much and Phrasing has stuck in my head as the best of the three. I don't know when I'll get around to the 21min track.

I'm sure a large part of why Tilt was a big deal to me and I kind of ignored The Drift were my very different domestic circumstances, 11 years apart. At 27, I was single, living alone, no neighbours to speak of, nice stereo, lots of free time; at 38 I was married with kids, no time, long work hours. My principal memory of The Drift is being stunned by the Donald Duck Moment on the top deck of a number 3 bus in Dulwich. And then I probably didn't listen to it again for six months. I've gone back to it recently - "Jesse" still marvellous. But this issue of barely having the time and space to give these records the room they (maybe) deserve is present again with Bish Bosch.

the cobwebby cum spray font works

i can empathise with Michael Jones. I heald off buying the Drift on vinyl because I thought, shit, am I really going to want to play this out loud, but I currently live at home and I'm loving the aura of vinyl playback lately so I'm looking forward to hearing BB on a turntable in my room.

Currently collecting the more substantial interviews (Guardian, Pfork, Quietus) into a single PDF cause I'm a fuckin' dork like that...

― Tomb Of Spatula (Jon Lewis), Friday, 7 December 2012 19:17 (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd love a copy of this if you wouldn't mind?

Album is straight in at number 95

The Mighty Bosch

"My Gran used to love him in the 60s, so she'll love getting this for Xmas"

Actually my mum used to like him but I won't be getting her this

god jesus, there are gonna be a few heart attacks over the festive season. i actually fear...

Okay, so the last 2/3rds of this album is pretty engaging, but those first two tracks are the ones that really scan as Walker self-parody to me. Shave those two off and this is quite a bit better.