Scott Walker "Bish Bosch"

yes that's a good interview. i think i was completely wrong upthread about this record and i'm very pleased to say that.

The Guardian guy gets some facts wrong but nonetheless conducts a pretty great interview.

I'm refusing to hear any of Bish Bosch until I can have the CD, and I gather there's a lot of gallows hilarity on this one, but this particular lyric quoted in that article sent shivers down my spine:

"Earth's hoary/fontanelle/weeps softly/for a/thumb thrust"

I gather there's a lot of gallows hilarity on this one

Understatement.

impressive lack of dropoff for album tracks (esp after SDSS14), per last.fm

1 'See You Don't Bump His Head' 1,171
2 Corps De Blah 1,062
3 Phrasing 989
4 SDSS14+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter) 873
5 Epizootics! 867
6 Dimple 778
7 Tar 756
8 Pilgrim 745
9 The Day the "Conducator" Died (An Xmas Song) 688

there were no moors in the fifth century

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17387-bish-bosch/

oh, but that's just a joke, right? it's almost like this review proves the other side of the argument it's trying to make about artistic and intellectual ambition

i deeply dislike the 'reviewer voice' tone of that kind of music writing

that's one nasty 8.0 review. jesus.

all you need to know about that reviewer is that he thinks scott walker is the david lynch of music

who would have thought Pitchfork would have written an awful review of this, really
this doesn't read like "8.0" at all

is 69 middle-aged in pitchfork-land? does that website even have any editors?

mr. pitchfork's thoughts on scott walker and the avant-garde remind me of a tea partier talking about barack obama and socialism

He's essentially going for an Emperor's New Clothes approach here, but makes a really bad case for it. There is hyperbole surrounding Walker and this release, true, and often he gets pedestalised as this purely original, utterly unique musician with a single vision and blahblah... But I don't think even his greatest fans would argue he doesn't have a huge number of influences guiding him, from Brel to Sibelius to, well, I bet the guy listens to hip-hop - all the old troll-codgers do. So this "don't be fooled by this faux avant garde bollocks" stance doesn't hold water because while he might not comfortably fit into that category, there's no one on the current "pop" landscape using these influences and taking these risks.

I can imagine the 8.0 marking was an editorial decision.

lol haven't read the review yet but powell's one of the great regular pitchfork dudes, guy navigates complicated reactions to things better than almost anyone i can think of on staff right now (tim would be the other that comes immediately to mind). his review of the philip glass remix thing is one of the best i've read recently

if that's the best pitchfork can do these days, oh boy

Why has the Graun reviewed this twice?

Petridis' is the Guardian review, Kitty Empire's is the Observer one.

When I was up in Scotland I noticed this got reviewed (fairly positively too) in the Daily Record, that's the Scottish equivalent of the Mirror - that 60s crooner fame is awfully persistent.

OK wait this is actually in US stores today? I thought US would lag a couple of weeks behind UK?

haven't listened to this yet because i had to pick between this and kesha and picked kesha

psst psst

goddammit so tempted to go to other music on my lunch break but that's a long-ass lunch break.

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