New Scott Walker album: 'The Drift'

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'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)

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

replace "scott walker" with "dan bejar"?

― cocktow, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 08:44 (twenty years ago)

Music for "Man from reno" was actually written by Goran Bregovic. His discograpy is mostly soundtracks. Before the 90's he was a rock star with his band in Sarajevo, Zagreb, Belgrade (and everything else that is now just EX-Yugoslavia). "Man from Reno" is actually a cover (musically and mellodicaly at least, because Scott wrote the new lyrics and new refrain - the one you recognise as part of Farmer in the city). The song's original Croatian (Bosnian, Serbian, whichever) title was "Ipak, pozelim neko pismo". Roughly translated it was something like "Still, I wish you've sent me a letter". I think there's a link for free download of this original version. I'll look it up.

― netko, Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

that'd be wonderful, I'm a big fan of Bregovic.

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Supposedly, super-limited vinyl promos now, with a U.S. release date in May. I was hoping he'd close Coachella, but oh well.

― Erick H (Erick H), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

yeah, 4ad said they wouldn't have promos until around may

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

i might (emphasis on the might) get to interview him :-O

― james van der beek (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

memo to beggars publicists: don't send harvell in the company jet.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Unless he takes all of us with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:43 (twenty years ago)

no way you're on the no-fly list, raggett.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

what happened the last time was a total accident

― james van der beek (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002J4YVK.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

He's funny, isn't he, Snoop Doggy Dogg? Look at that funny expression on his face.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 10 February 2006 10:52 (twenty years ago)

Milton, I think you can find it on www.nostalgija.com, but I should warn you of many pop-ups, bad design, bad...ware, and foreign languages. I hate that site, but they do have many mp3's including what you're looking for, and that's - ARTIST: "Bijelo dugme" SONG: "Ipak pozelim neko pismo"
Look for alphabetical menus.

― netko, Sunday, 12 February 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

what I've heard about the album sorta tends to confirm what that other dude is saying, actually

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Sunday, 12 February 2006 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Scott on myspace:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=7828767

― climate of punter, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Call me suspicious.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Is Scott Walker actually lonely toronto comma man ?

― inert false cat (sleep), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 14:40 (twenty years ago)

"Status: Swinger"

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 14:51 (twenty years ago)

I like all the people thanking "Mr Walker" for the add!

― jz, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 14:56 (twenty years ago)

I somehow think that Scott Walker, were he to have a mySpace, would have the good taste to spell "Edgar Allan Poe" correctly.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I can wait til May.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Q magazine April
Interview with Scott Walker...In The
Studio.

Working title The Drift

Completed tracks:

Cossacks are
Clara
Jesse
Hands Me Up
Buzzers
Psoriatic
A Lover Loves.

Interview.
Heading IT'S ALWAYS DIFFICULT

World exclusive: The return of Scott Walker

Scott Walker isn't a man to be rushed. The notoriously reclusive
singer's new album, The Drift, is his first record since 1999's
soundtrack to French arthouse movie Pola X, and only his 4th solo
effort in 30 years.

"It was written on and off over the last seven years," he says
speaking exclusively to Q. "It's always a difficult process,
although by my standards a few came running this time."
Anyone still hankering after a rturn to the orchestral pop of hi
s '60's hey day will be disappointed. Recorded at London's Air
studios with producer Peter Walsh between June 2004 and November
2005, The Drift follows the same Avant garde path as 1995's
magnificently unhinged Tilt.

Once again, the emphasis is on experimentation. New track Psoriatic
begins with the sound of a giant pea rolling on a table and features
percussion on a wooden box covered with dustbins. Another Hands Me
Up ("Written around the fulcrum of celebrity television")includes a
bizarre instrument called a tubax. "It's a giant saxophone, even
larger than a tuba", says Walker. "There are only two in the
country".

The album's most potentially controversial track is Jesse. Written a
month after 9/11, it brings together the attacks on the World Trade
Centre with Elvis Presley's still-born twin brother,
and "deconstructs" Presley's Jailhouse Rock along the way.
"It starts with the basses sounding like planes coming in," he
says, "while substituting the Jailhouse Rock drum riff with
whispered 'pows' for planes hitting the towers".
With Radiohead and Franz Ferdinand contributing to a forthcoming
Walker Documentary, 30th Century Man, interest in the singer is
greater than it's been in years. Predictably Walker is nonplussed
by the attention.

"I've lived with this too closely and for too long", he says. "My
only hope is that others will find the record engaging on some level."

― jz, Monday, 27 February 2006 09:43 (twenty years ago)

And from the new Mojo's playlist:

"Clara: Scott Walker

Flesh crawling 12-minute allegory of death and guilt centred around the grizzly fate of Clara Petacci, mistress of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Insane and extaordinary."

― jz, Monday, 27 February 2006 09:46 (twenty years ago)

seems like he's done it again. can't wait to hear it.

― heikki hietala, Monday, 27 February 2006 10:21 (twenty years ago)

"It starts with the basses sounding like planes coming in," he
says, "while substituting the Jailhouse Rock drum riff with
whispered 'pows' for planes hitting the towers".

That sounds really silly.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 27 February 2006 10:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm really looking forward to this album but I do have to agree, the 9/11-Elvis's dead brother thing sounds very silly. Scott has often skated close to silliness but has generally avoided it. But that Q article has him sounding dangerously like the sort of avant garde artist Kenny Everett might have made up. I'm still confident the album will be fantastic though.

― joubert, Monday, 27 February 2006 11:06 (twenty years ago)

will try not to read anything more

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 February 2006 12:51 (twenty years ago)

I wish this would come out sooner.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 27 February 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

kenny everett? brasseye more like

New track Psoriatic
begins with the sound of a giant pea rolling on a table and features
percussion on a wooden box covered with dustbins

you can't hear him. he's made of string.

― david laughner, Monday, 27 February 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)

i have it. it's nuts. on the same tip as Tilt but darker and bleaker and more threatening. one song pairs repeated, drastic, minor-key orchestral bursts with what sounds like a cow being slaughtered. at another point, Walker repeats: "I'll punch a donkey on the streets of Galway! I'll punch a donkey on the streets of Galway!" his voice overall sounds more -- i don't want to say 'affected', but consciously dramatic. if anyone wants more detailed info, i'll be happy to post. those who liked Tilt will be pleased. i like it a whole lot.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

ok wtf

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

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