New Scott Walker album: 'The Drift'

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I got that Classic s and Collectibles thing. I haven't listened to the Collectibles bit yet.

Is Climate of Hunter good?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

It starts off great then tails off a bit. It's a bit 80s in terms of fretless bass, production, some of the keyboard sounds

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

... but still great, all things considered!

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Mark Knopfler is on it. And Evan Parker.

And Billy Ocean.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

And Ray Russell? And Bamber Gascoigne's brother.

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

aw man, im excited.

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:55 (twenty years ago)

This thread has just cost me £40 in tangential excitement purchases. Outside by Bowie, Another Day On Earth by Eno, the remaster of Climate Of Hunter, Luke Haines Is Dead and Roots by Curtis Mayfield.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Luke Haines Is Dead

I don't recall the 21-gun salute.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

who is reissuing "climate of hunter"?

i'm looking forward to the doc almost as much as the album.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

virgin uk put climate of hunter back in print two years ago - is it just getting reissued in the US now, or is it getting bonus stuff?

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Bonus stuff? Oh get outta here!

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

You know, Dadaismus, the acoustic demos with Mats Gustafsson and Chuck D.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking more along the lines of the night Scott got Evan Parker to phone up Derek Bailey and bring his axe to the studio to crank out some Quo and Foghat numbers

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Is it being HCDC-fied or whatever it's called? If so, does it make much difference?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking more along the lines of the night Scott got Evan Parker to phone up Derek Bailey and bring his axe to the studio to crank out some Quo and Foghat numbers

Don't be ridiculous. They taped over those with a recording of their Morris dancing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

I really can't wait for this record!

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Ditto.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Definitely the most eagerly awaited release for me in quite some time. I'm a huge fan of Climate Of Hunter and Tilt, so that brief review above has me totally enraptured!

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 20 January 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

ditto

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 20 January 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

There's a good chance that "drift" was one of the guesses as to what "the next scott walker would be called" on that respective thread... someone should check and award the winner his/her prize!

― Dom iNut (donut), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Does anybody have specifics on the Climate of Hunter reissue? A date?

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

30th January, last I heard.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 20 January 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

NICE.

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Friday, 20 January 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

There's a good chance that "drift" was one of the guesses as to what "the next scott walker would be called" on that respective thread... someone should check and award the winner his/her prize!

-- Dom iNut (do...), January 20th, 2006.

Drive

-- do knut (do...), November 17th, 2005.

close, but no prize.

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 20 January 2006 19:17 (twenty years ago)

haha, I knew I made bad suggestions additionally but hell.. ("Drive"? what the fuck was I thinking? Thank you for checking though :) )

― Dom iNut (donut), Friday, 20 January 2006 19:27 (twenty years ago)

I thought he was dead. Seriously! Maybe he is and Kraftwerk have taken over.

― tolstoy (tolstoy), Sunday, 22 January 2006 10:58 (twenty years ago)

This needs to leak like Scooter Libby.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 23 January 2006 05:10 (twenty years ago)

Have you "done it", Jerry?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:19 (twenty years ago)

Video for 'Man From Reno' (single he did between 'Climate' and 'Tilt', which bizarrely contains some of the lyrics to 'Farmer In The City'):

http://bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/2005/11/man_from_reno.html

― CÃ©cile, Monday, 30 January 2006 09:39 (twenty years ago)

Weird. Not really like Tilt, not really like Climate of Hunter either. More the latter than the former I guess. I'd never heard of this song before, judging from the clip it's from a movie, what's the movie? Did he write other stuff for this movie, or just the one track?

― lupine logic, Monday, 30 January 2006 11:59 (twenty years ago)

It's from a French movie called "A Toxic Affair". I don't remember much about it, but it's not very good. Scott seems to have a habit of picking dud French movies for his soundtracks.

I may be wrong, but I think only the words are Scott's, the music by someone else.

― jz, Monday, 30 January 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

'Reno' is pleasant enough, although it's nothing too exceptional. There's another track he did from the film called 'Indecent Sacrifice' which is similar sounding. His work for 'Pola X' is much better.

― Susan Shehady, Monday, 30 January 2006 12:24 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, "Man From Reno" is on the box and it's kind of bizarre — but not as bizarre as the fact that he did a song for The World Is Not Enough, a Bond film for God's sake.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 30 January 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

I like "Man from Reno" a lot, actually, but that's partially because the Walkabouts covered it on The Train Leaves At Eight, with Carla doing the lead vocals. The arrangement's not much different but it's a great performance, and it's since become something of a live standard for them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 January 2006 15:06 (twenty years ago)

I think "Man From Reno" and "Indecent Sacrifice" are delightfully subtle, but also quite riveting. I only wish there had been a video for both!

― Juliet, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 23:45 (twenty years ago)

attn americans: a limited double lp version of "the drift" will be available, from matador direct.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 February 2006 23:16 (twenty years ago)

"The Drift" is epic. Voice performs a wider range.....great symphony....great rock........dark and dreadful.

― Trafsuam2, Monday, 6 February 2006 03:48 (twenty years ago)

"The Drift" is epic. Voice performs a wider range.....great symphony....great rock........dark and dreadful.

― Trafsuam1, Monday, 6 February 2006 03:48 (twenty years ago)

Questions as to how you've heard it are now being asked.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 February 2006 03:51 (twenty years ago)

Because I deserved to hear it.....is all I can say. sorrisimo.

― trafsuam1, Monday, 6 February 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)

Fine but more details please tell tell

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Monday, 6 February 2006 03:59 (twenty years ago)

Sorry fellow fans....just in a lucky situation, which I don't see is relevant.......Scott has surpassed himself....another triumph..god bless him. Just my opinion. Just wanted you to know you will forget about the waiting......patience.

― trafsuam1, Monday, 6 February 2006 04:04 (twenty years ago)

Throw a bone. What's it like relative to Tilt?

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Monday, 6 February 2006 04:07 (twenty years ago)

Difficult like "Tilt"...but more of an eagre, a deluge, inundation.
yet rocks out more. Wait. Don't want to spoil that initial play.

― trafsuam2, Monday, 6 February 2006 04:33 (twenty years ago)

ian penman posted something about this a week or so ago:

http://apawboy.blogspot.com/2006/01/yes-yes-its-new-scott-walker.html

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 6 February 2006 10:26 (twenty years ago)

just in a lucky situation, which I don't see is relevant

Er, ok.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:53 (twenty years ago)

things are starting to explode around my desk

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:54 (twenty years ago)

: o

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 6 February 2006 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Just in a lucky situation that you don't think is relevant...how could it not be relevant.. or maybe you don't actually understand what the word means....! smug aren't you.. all right for you to say patience... You deserved it?? how do we know that... Fellow fans?? you aren't acting like one... fans share things...

― Geraldine McGuckin (2raggedsoldiers), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 00:35 (twenty years ago)

maybe he's really scott walker, totally devoid of humility and working the internet buzz like a blind butcher

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 01:19 (twenty years ago)

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By "early stuff" do you mean 1/2/3/4 or the even earlier Walker Brothers hits? (or both?)

Anything before those first four tracks on Nite Flights, basically.

― polyphonic, Sunday, 10 July 2011 18:58 (fourteen years ago)

Anything before those first four tracks on Nite Flights, basically.

I used to feel that way but then his Brel covers really jumped out at me, and then his bed-sit dramas wormed their way into my head. I'm still metza-metza about his ballads and most of The Walker Brothers material, though. But listening to the entire "Five Easy Pieces" box set straight was almost transformative, to live in his world for that long.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 10 July 2011 23:26 (fourteen years ago)

I love everything he did, even his worst stuff. He just has a certain something.

"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" is one of my all time favorite songs.

― polyphonic, Monday, 11 July 2011 02:40 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

Last night's Devon Record Club had a Halloween theme. I played this - http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/scott-walker-–-the-drift-–-round-17-–-nick’s-choice/

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 20:36 (fourteen years ago)

Great write up sicko

― Mum-Ra Gaddafi the Ever-Living (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 00:36 (fourteen years ago)

He's doing Donald Duck, not Daffy Duck.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 08:48 (fourteen years ago)

indeed

"I was trying to get something matching up to the lyric at the end there, because you know he’s not saying what Donald Duck says, he’s saying what Bugs Bunny says, so you have a kind of combination of two creatures together. They're kind of morphing into each other. I guess that was what was running through my head."

http://tigersare.blogspot.com/2006/05/scott-walker-speaks.html

― piscesx, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 08:53 (fourteen years ago)

ten months pass...

I've got over the "I'm too scared of this record to play it more than once a year" thing and now I'm finally appreciating it in full. Actually I'm kind of obsessed with it. Once the "songs" start shining through it's one of the best albums ever. Shame that everything else sounds shallow and cheerful by comparison.

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Saturday, 29 September 2012 10:33 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, it's fantastic!! My only crit is that the rhythm of the vocal phrases gets a little repetitious. It's my favourite album of the 00s, Tilt doesn't hold a candle to it imho

― bash with all one's might (Ówen P.), Saturday, 29 September 2012 14:58 (thirteen years ago)

This is maybe kind of 'well gee' but if you own a pair of studio monitor headphones you should give it a listen through it's probably the best sounding record I've ever heard

― bash with all one's might (Ówen P.), Saturday, 29 September 2012 15:00 (thirteen years ago)

When that storm of bees or whatever it is erupts, fucking hellfire.

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 29 September 2012 16:07 (thirteen years ago)

I must listen again to The Drift. It's never completely worked for me, and I speak as someone who thinks Tilt is a masterpiece.

― Freedom, Sunday, 30 September 2012 13:19 (thirteen years ago)

"oh yeah made me hate Almond all the way. What a waste of humanity."

I think that bit was salutary, insofar as it stuck a pin in the general tone of reverence, but I can't help but think that Almond hates Tilt in a "oh, but where are the songs about decadent prostitutes?" way.

― Freedom, Sunday, 30 September 2012 13:22 (thirteen years ago)

"the problem with this record is that it sounds very much put together on a computer- like you can imagine them actually fiddling with the levels/fades whatever as you are listening to it: "ok, they've decided to bring this bit on now with a fade". on a mac. it doesn't sound real at all. not one bit. that may be a conscious decision, in which case, fine (bit not for me). it all sounds so unreal spatially, like there is no space there. i really cannot connect. even an amazing song like "clara" sounds like computer."

Yeah, I think this gets to the problem.

― Freedom, Sunday, 30 September 2012 13:34 (thirteen years ago)

i like the lack of spatiality! it's very claustrophobic

― clouds, Sunday, 30 September 2012 13:50 (thirteen years ago)

I hear the lack of space too, but it's part of its monastic quality. It's claustrophilia!

― jim, Sunday, 30 September 2012 15:37 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, I think this gets to the problem.

Didn't 30th Century Man reveal the recording of The Drift to be entirely analog?

― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 30 September 2012 15:39 (thirteen years ago)

That's what it says on the liner notes. I'm pretty surprised that it's analog, it doesn't seem that necessary (except maybe some of the string stuff) and there's zero hiss

― bash with all one's might (Ówen P.), Sunday, 30 September 2012 17:50 (thirteen years ago)

There's extra footage on the 30thCM DVD of the recording of The Drift, there are shots of guys peering at computer screens but you can never quite see if it is ProTools or some other recording software.

― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Sunday, 30 September 2012 18:02 (thirteen years ago)

seven months pass...

http://heystacks.tumblr.com/post/51677726774/scott-walker-the-escape-the-drift-2006-okay-so

― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 23:30 (thirteen years ago)

six years pass...

Slowly reading through this thread again and very sad at the realisation we'll unlikely hear any new Scott ever again

― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 19 September 2019 15:43 (six years ago)

I was really depressed when he died and the news went right by me without registering. Just realized he’d passed last week. A true genius :(

― fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 19 September 2019 15:47 (six years ago)

I know right? He spent so long between albums that I keep thinking 'Ah I wonder what he's going to pull out his sleeve in 2024?' and then it dawns on me...

― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:04 (six years ago)

Yeah, same here. I half keep expecting him to pop up again with something new or crazy, but then realize... It's been very different with other greats (maybe also because with eg. Bowie, and even Hollis, the tributes were *everywhere* and seemed to last way longer than with Walker).

― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 19 September 2019 16:13 (six years ago)

two years pass...

Did anyone see this? (Also hmu if you know how I can see this)

Tune in tonight at 9pm on Sky Arts to watch Charles Hazelwood’s reimagining of Scott Walker’s 2006 album The Drift 🕷

Charles and Paraorchestra are joined by singer Rylan Gleave and experimental improv trio Pulled By Magnets in Abbey Road’s Studio 2 pic.twitter.com/qs647vF8kv
— 4AD (@4AD_Official) July 4, 2022

― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Thursday, 7 July 2022 18:03 (three years ago)

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