New Scott Walker album: 'The Drift'

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."

"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."

That sounds really silly.

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.

I don't see how this is possible, but I'll take your word for it.

Cossacks are charging in
Charging into fields of white roses

Cossacks are charging in
Charging into fields of white roses.

That's a nice suit!
That's a swanky suit!

Been a pope like no other.
I'm looking for a good cowboy.
A rare outcry makes you lead a larger life.
Youl could easily picture this in the current top ten.

It's hard to pick the worst moment.
It's hard to pick the worst moment.

More please.

Now embark for the Ivory Coast
Chiming like mouse bells
BAM BAM
BAM BAM

at the birth of a vermin Holy Ghost

it
looks
like
this

the packet is around 50 pages long.

and I must hear it

More lyrics!

Bones closing -- too soon at the tips
Won't feed on the bodies
From the fat black crocodile on the sand bar

Can't swallow it.
Then bury it.

From the voice flooded
Semen clotting to paste.

Can't swallow it.
Then bury it.

christ, i wish i could make shit like this up.

the packet is around 50 pages long.

I actually thought this was one of the lyrics! Thanks for posting this stuff by the way PFB.

Cossacks (4:38)
Clara (12:49)
Jesse (6:34)
Jolson and Jones (7:51)
Cue (10:33)
Audience (5:56)
Buzzers (6:45)
Psoriatic (5:57)
The Escape (5:24)
A Lover Loves (3:11)

also, this is officially the fan-dorkiest thread on ILX right now.

That reminds me, I must do a big shop this weekend.

I spent most of the morning repeating this to myself and sniggering.

This is going to be great. I can't wait.

The puddle beneath the cork
Bobbing on a mild chop
That rolled in off the river Dix
And the open water beyond

Brogue says:
"I'LL PUNCH A DONKEY IN THE STREETS OF GALWAY!"

Then me:

"I'LL PUNCH A DONKEY IN THE STREETS OF GALWAY!"
"I'LL PUNCH A DONKEY IN THE STREETS OF GALWAY!"

Sonny boy.
Such a sonny boy.

But I have to hear it. Soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKlsnDjv-EM&search=Scott%20walker

Or how about JAMES JOYCE!? I think our boy Scott'o is a bit more of an intellectual abotu his references and would first reach to Joyce than a sad old drunk cunt like me!