New Scott Walker album: 'The Drift'

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I stand corrected.

― Soukesian, Sunday, 5 March 2006 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Christ this sounds good. When is this going to leak? eh? Still have to buy a copy cout of respect for the man tho...

― gekkoppel, Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

don't like to think of it, leaking

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Drift oozing everywhere, leaving trails of glistening black slime

― Brakhage (brakhage), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

I'll punch a swamp thing in the streets of Galway.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

revive, because i've been listening to Tilt a lot again lately, and i feel like i'm finally starting to wrap my head around it. it doesn't seem nearly as weird or dark anymore. should i be concerned for my well being?

also, i missed this upthread:

the 9/11-Elvis's dead brother thing sounds very silly.

it def. sounds silly conceptually, but the track is totally skin-crawling.

sorry. on a Walker kick and need more fannish ranting.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:38 (twenty years ago)

you say the track itself is skincrawling- excellent stuff- you don't actually have it in your possession do you??? I need this leak like a man with a very small sack to hold his urine does.

― gekkopel, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)

this album is very... xiu xiu.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

you mean obscure and OTT dramatic? Awesome if so. I presume promos have been released?

― gekkopel, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

i wouldn't say obscure, necessarily.. but OTT dramatic and kind of sparse/clangy.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:15 (twenty years ago)

oh ian.

also, don't ask for leaks, dude.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

sounds good. Sorry for the ettiquette breach, ten years does strange things to a man's mind.... I don't suppose anyone knows if he'll be touring this time around? I remember reading an article back in 1995 circa Tilt that he was considering it, but inevitably it came to nothing.

― gekkopel, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Someone should do a plunderphonics cutup of his vocals and then mash it up with the Eraserhead soundtrack, just to keep us Walkerites satiated until May.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone heard anything by a French singer named Vanessa Quinones? Apparently she does guest vocals on 'The Drift'.

― jz, Friday, 17 March 2006 09:50 (twenty years ago)

i want him to tour and appear in a glass box onstage at each concert

― amateurist-, Friday, 17 March 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

hey y'all - the director of the Scott doc is MySpacing the film...pic of the legendary former WALLY STOTT, now know as ANGELA MORLEY - wow!
www.myspace.com/kijak

― john mouse, Saturday, 18 March 2006 03:06 (twenty years ago)

it says the album is released on 10 May too...

― gekkoppel, Saturday, 18 March 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Scott's first interview in 10 years next week on BBC2's Culture Show:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/cultureshow

― jz, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 09:43 (twenty years ago)

scott must have read this thread and worked out it was my birthday next wed

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 10:24 (twenty years ago)

makes sense

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 10:24 (twenty years ago)

I was due to speak to him yesterday but it was changed to an email q+a instead :(

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:48 (twenty years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)

i still remember Michael Bracewell's Late Show piece on Scott when Tilt Came out.

i hope Muriel Gray does the Culture Show interview ;)

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I was due to speak to him yesterday but it was changed to an email q+a instead :(

That definitely warrants a :( or even a :`(

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

A documentary film about Scott's music - including the making of "The Drift" - is being made by the New York -based director Stephen Kijak. Titled "30 Century Man", it will also be released in 2006

Site for said film here:

http://www.scottwalkerfilm.com/blog/

I do like this one comment on it:

Have been living with The Drift for a few weeks now - feeling like one of the first human explorers to make it to Mars.� The album itself should be nominated for Best Foreign Film� - it defies “album” - it is more like a continent.� Will take five documentaries to work through it.

Meantime, they posted this today:

Scott interview & film clips on The Culture Show
March 26th, 2006

The Culture Show BBC2, Thursday March 30 features Scott’s first televised interview in over 10 years and will include clips from our upcoming film - including a rare peek at him at work on his new album. The segement is only goingt to be about 10 min. long but if you’re in the UK, try to look out for it!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Ah, looking up a bit I see JZ already mentioned it. Sorry for the duplication!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Cover!

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000EZMPEU.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V56248911_.jpg

That...that's a 4AD album there, yessir.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

nothing is stopping me from being really excited

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Good to see Russell Mills has some work on his plate.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

the font is beautiful

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

:-D

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

you can watch the culture show here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/?id=culture_show

they update the site on the day of the new show's broadcast (thursday).

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Dominique OTM, and that cover is marvel!

― Gerard (Gerard), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

cover very tasteful- quite restrained for 4AD no? I recall seeing some "his name is alive" cover in one of those album cover Art books and it was the most over-designed thing imaginable- too many fonts and too scattershot an image approach, really messy. This is much better, with a sensible selection of a mere two fonts. Where is this pic from??

― gecko opel, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.scottwalkerfilm.com/blog/ look under "pages" on the side-bar then click on "press releases" you will find some liner notes? Official press release??? By Ian Penman. Tey're very Penman-esque, if you know what I mean....

― gekkopelel, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm afraid I have to say I'd prefer to have the record without these notes.

The still at the top of the site is amazing. Is this Scott in the recording booth? Looks like some nightmarish medical experiment.

― Soukesian, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I suspect that is Scott in the recording studio. Has he abandoned the combover tho??? All shall be revealed I presume... Oh, and I would have assumed those notes aren't going to be in the album booklet. They read more like one of Penman's blog entries, which is pretty odd..

― gek-opel, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

That pic is quite Francis Bacon!

I ended up getting some quite funny - in both senses - replies from Scott to my email interview. Both they and my review will be in the Uncut out end of April...

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Any taster you can share?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

That cover makes me think of Ed Harris plunging off the edge of the cliff to the crushing ocean depths in The Abyss.

― Brakhage (brakhage), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

there's a feature (cover?) on Walker with interview in the next issue of Wire too I hear...

― gek-opel, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Those liner notes yes ... just like Ian Penman's blog... he will be wearing out his thesaurus if he carries on like that. The notes are not the sleevenotes, thank god but are included in the promo package, not sure if I could get past that stuff to listen to the album........... well maybe I could.. just to listen to "our first and last and best recording angel, and the last Modernist left standing, the only one left alive, Scott 2006. The last and most easily readable quote from Ian Penman's notes. There are some very valid observations in the notes..but then he disappears somewhere else that I don't care to follow, would rather listen to the music and see where it takes me.

Geri

― Geri McGuckin, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

I was hoping you would get to go out donkey-punching with him, Jerry.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:50 (twenty years ago)

I believe I have solved the mystery of the donkey punching, funnily enough!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:00 (twenty years ago)

*intrigued*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

I told you music mags were great.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I believe I have solved the mystery of the donkey punching, funnily enough!

Anything to do with Nietzche's horse-hugging?

― jz, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

anyone else aware of a slightly different meaning to the phrase "donkey punch" than pummeling a stunted inbred horse-like animal?

― gek-opel, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

it is an internet-bred rumored sexual practice that involves anal sex and hitting a woman in the back of the head. it is quite disgusting

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

thats the one.

― gek-opel, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

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