As poetry this album is fantastic. As music, I think it ploughs the same furrow as The Drift to much lesser effect. At first it seemed cool, I think that for a lot of fans, the initial magic of getting a new Scott Walker release rubbed off pretty fast. In retrospect, Walker's managing to release a very musically different follow-up (Soused) less than two years later saved him from what might have been a dip in his reputation.
I wonder what the truth is to rumours that Walker had recorded new music before his death, including the songs whose lyrics are included at the end of the Faber & Faber Sundog collection.
― Melomane, Sunday, 29 March 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link