Scott Walker "Bish Bosch"

Proof that it's great? It's every bit as good as the Swans record in a very different way. It feels like a deconstructed black metal album in places. The silences are unbelievably, oppressively SILENT.

Aaaugh I want to hear

Or...not hear.

The sounds of silence...MURDERING YOUR SKULL.

I wonder how many people are going to fall for this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Fdd35hZWc&feature=share

That is the best thing I've ever seen on youtube.

LOL

For an example of Scott’s unorthodox songwriting techniques, take the album’s centrepiece, the twenty minute ‘SDSS1416 + 13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)’. The title contains two brown dwarves: one, the coldest sub-stellar body in the universe discovered so far; the other, Zercon, was a real-life Moorish jester at the fifth century court of Attila the Hun.

this was already done pretty well on the 1987 monkees reunion album pool it. maybe scott is running out of ideas?

In the telling, Scott often veers dangerously close to self-parody. In the listening, not so much. I have faith this is going to be terrific.

Watched 30th Century Man again last night... Fantastic film. Hope they do a docu about BB.

As confirmed by Beggars US via Twitter:

1st line of the new Scott Walker album: "While plucking feathers from a swan song, Spring might gently press its thumbs against your eyes"

I wonder what you could get on eBay for a microphone that Scott Walker had farted into?

Hehe, I love it when people like Whiney think they deserve an award for pre-emptively not liking something.

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wgw posted a pic of Chris Bosh

yeah big crossover between scott walker fans and basketball. unless you know who that is he just looks like a bored dude.

has there been a joek about bosc pears yet?

I'll punch a bosc pear in the streets of Galway

And I used to be a citizen
I never felt the pressure
I knew nothing of the horses
Nothing of the bosc pear

lol'ing so hard at that 'trailer'

He is shaking to wash
The pear pulp away

is bosc really pronounced "bosh" and have i been mispronouncing it all these years?

bosh for bosch is the correct pronunciation.

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