New Scott Walker album: 'The Drift'

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Dylan, you might try the first two Divine Comedy albums ('Liberation' and 'Promenade') - you'll either love 'em or hate 'em.

― Anong, Sunday, 23 April 2006 02:38 (twenty years ago)

are there any good artists that claim scott as an influence?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 23 April 2006 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Not really an influence when you know his music/art, but Jim O'Rourke claims that Scott Walker is a real influence on his life. For him, Scoot is a kind of hero/master. And Jim O'Rourke is a pretty good artist/guitarist/laptoper.

― aerial1, Sunday, 23 April 2006 12:13 (twenty years ago)

The Observer Music Monthly review

Scott Walker - The Drift
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/10bestcds/story/0,,1756929,00.html
5 Stars *****

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 23 April 2006 12:25 (twenty years ago)

faz.net (site of the German paper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) has a new interview (will cost ya 1.50 euros) in which Scott confirms what's long been speculated and says that, yes, he has read Paul Celan. So Death really is a master from Hamilton, Ohio. Which leads into one clue re the ending of "The Escape." Robert McCloskey, author of that golden oldie "Make Way For Ducklings," was born the same year as Scott's father (or year after, forget which) and they were both raised in Hamilton. (You can get a sense of what the town was like when Scott was born there from McCloskey's two books about Homer Price - Hamilton is Centerburg in 'em.)

― JWJ, Sunday, 23 April 2006 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Interesting -- where David Lynch chooses not to say word one about the plots of his movies, Scott feels inclined to explain. On the upside, however, the analyses here will finally cease once and for all.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 23 April 2006 13:39 (twenty years ago)

the analyses here will finally cease once and for all

i'd rather read pretentious analyses than wankers incessantly telling other people to shut up

― boychild, Sunday, 23 April 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

If ever there was an artist who could be enjoyed more by analysis, it's Walker post-1976.

― niles, Sunday, 23 April 2006 20:28 (twenty years ago)

I know it's been discussed here, but it really is surprising how accessible tracks 7-10 are in comparison to some of the earlier tracks. I love every track on "The Drift" but with repeated listens I've realized that it still has the immediate qualities that "Tilt" had. Am I alone in thinking that the "Anthrax Jesus.." part in "Psoriatic" has a similiar melodic line to George Benson's "On Broadway" - I know, this seems a little out of place, but bizarre references are in many Scott Walker songs.

― ross, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

[url=http://www.flim.com/flim/index.html?20050806]this[/url] feels a bit like Scott Walker, I think.

― kitaj (kitaj), Monday, 1 May 2006 07:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.the-drift.net/

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

www.thewire.co.uk/web/unpublished/scott_walker.html has an unedited transcript of Rob Young's interview with Scott. In it the Godlike one talks about reading Updike. Might explain what that rabbit's doin' in "Clara."

― Daddy Dewdrop, Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Wow, thanks so much!

― Gerard (Gerard), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Has there been any reviews yet that use the phrase "Get The Drift"?

― The Mercury Krueger (Ex Leon), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

That's an excellent interview. I still kind of wish he wouldn't talk so much about what the songs are about, tho'.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Well he could be bluffing...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 May 2006 06:28 (twenty years ago)

is the reissue of climate of hunter much better than the standard issue? it isn't a record that seemed to screaming for a remaster to me.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 5 May 2006 06:43 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't sound appreciably (i.e. at all) deeper or fuller.

Petridish tries it with Scott in today's Grauniad.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 May 2006 06:51 (twenty years ago)

Bizarrely this is record of the week in The Daily Express.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 5 May 2006 09:42 (twenty years ago)

He's interviewed in Mojo this month

― Vitbe... *pause*... Is Good Bread (Dada), Friday, 5 May 2006 09:47 (twenty years ago)

The album's currently #18 on Amazon!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 May 2006 09:50 (twenty years ago)

There's also a review and interview in Uncut out today.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:05 (twenty years ago)

what a recluse.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:08 (twenty years ago)

He'll be on CD:UK next.

Oh.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:16 (twenty years ago)

Celebrity Big Brother? Strictly Come Dancing? Love Island?

― Vitbe... *pause*... Is Good Bread (Dada), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I was cycling down by the Thames in Chiswick and Putney yesterday afternoon and passed a geezer who looked very much like SW. Given that he apparently lives in Chiswick, I wonder...

Funny story in the Guardian interview about someone sitting next to him on the tube.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:34 (twenty years ago)

Interview in the Independent:
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article361953.ece
although he's (understandably) starting to repeat himself now.

On the Wire website there's a transcript of their Scott interview, with lots of stuff that got left out of the article. The best read of the lot.

― jz, Friday, 5 May 2006 11:41 (twenty years ago)

It probably was Scott. I used to see him on his bike all the time when I lived in Chiswick. The only celebrity I ever saw there, apart from Michael Barrymore.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:44 (twenty years ago)

Jesus, he's publicity-mad!

― Vitbe... *pause*... Is Good Bread (Dada), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:45 (twenty years ago)

This quote from the Independent is a bloody nonsense: 'His literary tastes range from the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun to Dostoevsky.'. That's like saying his taste in music ranges from Led Zeppelin to Black Sabbath. Or Grieg to Tchaikovsky, if you prefer.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:02 (twenty years ago)

In the Independent they would have said: "ranges from '70s rock band Led Zeppelin to '70s rock band Black Sabbath," and "to the Russian writer Dostoevsky," because as we all know broadsheet readers know nothing about nothing.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:06 (twenty years ago)

Broadsheet editors know nothing about nothing shurely?

― Vitbe... *pause*... Is Good Bread (Dada), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

To be fair, it was only in the 'Arts & Books Review' bit, so you could let them off not knowing shit about literature.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Drift is now number 16 in the Amazon.co.uk sales chart, (and a 5 star review in the Metro this morning)

I predict a glut of second hand copies available within the week.

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Monday, 8 May 2006 09:49 (twenty years ago)

I bought this

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:40 (twenty years ago)

I predict a glut of second hand copies available within the week.

I wonder about this. I would imagine most reviews would at least make a passing mention about how the music is a long way from your average singer songwriter or pop artist fare, and given how much we're likely to read bizarre lyric interpretations, I'd hope that anyone buying the CD would have an inkling of what they were in for. Who knows though, I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of used copies of this soon.

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:43 (twenty years ago)

I bought it in Fopp.

Dilemma of whether to rip it and strain to listen to it on my evening commute solved by just-remembered responsibility of taking Ava home tonight on the bus. Maybe I'll let her play with the slipcase.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I bought it in fopp, too

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I bought this

I bought it in fopp, too

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:26 (twenty years ago)

i think a diversion to fopp on my way home may be in order. £10, right?

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

£12

this is incredible.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:38 (twenty years ago)

FFFFUCK!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

£9.99 in Solo Music in Exeter. Not out of the cellophane yet, and wont be till tomorrow probably.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

I have it on vinyl with lyric sheet = I am stoked. Now if only the gorgeously sunny California weather wasn't so utterly inappropriate for this music.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

nighttimes

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 8 May 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

alcohol

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:24 (twenty years ago)

YOU'RE WELCOME DREW!

ha.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

thanx dawwg

sorry about lawyer ron : (

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Lawyer Ron? A superhero?

The weather down here is foggy so there is that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 May 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

it's ok, i didn't have any money down.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 8 May 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

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