Scott Walker. (RIP March 2019)

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there's a piss-poor version of 'It's Raining Today' on the new Damian Lazarus album

tard and feathered (braveclub), Monday, 27 April 2009 10:50 (fifteen years ago) link

This tribute album sounds good, but what I'd like to hear more is all these artists singing their own songs in a fake Scott Walker voice. (i.e. Bowie in 1995.)

Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Monday, 27 April 2009 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link

(My fave Bowie singing voice, by the by.)

Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Monday, 27 April 2009 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

such a small love is a beautiful song.

by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 17 October 2010 07:42 (thirteen years ago) link

The only Scott Walker album I know is "The Drift", which is a wonder.

Envy me! How I have all that to discover and look forward to.

At some point. No hurry.

WHen they're cheep in fopp....

Mark G, Monday, 18 October 2010 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link

Pick up Tilt whenever you see it around, it's fantastic and v. similar vibe to The Drift... great album.

ilxor is awesome what the fuck are you guys on about (ilxor), Monday, 18 October 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link

I would, but I haven't seen it about for years.

Really have to re-install Spotify, don't I?

Mark G, Monday, 18 October 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link

Get the old stuff too!

daavid, Monday, 18 October 2010 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link

scott 3 is just sublime. you put it on and it takes you over, not forcefully, but like really good weather on a day when you're outside and it seems like you haven't seen weather like that in a really long time.

scott 4 is like that also, but you're hang gliding as well.

I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link

they're both really good fall albums. mark you should get them sooner than later!

I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link

I doubt they're anything like The Fall.

"Lights of Cincinatierah!"

Mark G, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link

(soz: Thanks, appreciated)

Mark G, Monday, 18 October 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link

a boy child rides upon your back-uh

I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link

'the old man is back again' has an MES-like bite to it

I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Monday, 18 October 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

What's Scott Walker up to now? Apparently, he's writing scores for dance pieces inspired by Jean Cocteau:

http://pitchfork.com/news/42772-scott-walker-writes-score-for-dance-piece/

geeta, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link

It'd be more surprising if he didn't do that, I figure!

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link

It's the second dance he's scored. The first one, "And Who Shall Go To The Ball And What Shall Go To The Ball", came out on 4AD not long after "The Drift".

jed_, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link

I got the box set earlier this year and it's really mind-bending in a literal way to delve so deeply into Scott's world. I could hear connections to so many things both backwards and forwards, it's like he sat at a musical crossroads for all generations.

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 9 June 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link

I've said this before, and I'll say it again (anticipating the full wrath of the greater ILM community, of course):

please: more crooning, less looning

henry s, Thursday, 9 June 2011 00:53 (twelve years ago) link

wonder if this is your first sb.

Germans freaking LOVE being naked. (Matt P), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

woohoo

it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 22 June 2012 09:07 (eleven years ago) link

oh yeah

jed_, Friday, 22 June 2012 09:44 (eleven years ago) link

Makes sense -- new decade, new album.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link

Wait we're not due another Scott Walker album for 4-5 years!

Meet the G that Skrilled me... (snoball), Friday, 22 June 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link

Well maybe he's just finished one song, ten to go.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 June 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link

I can't believe The Drift came out SIX YEARS AGO

Also lol at "I wonder if this is your first sb."

Call me Ishmael (Ówen P.), Friday, 22 June 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link

There were some photos from the sessions a few months ago. Totally beyond excited. I don't think it will be all that long from here. Scott seems to take years and years in the gestation of what he wants to do, but not an unusually long time once he starts to execute it.

Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 June 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link

"Last night at a 4AD event in New York City, the label played one new song, which does not appear to have a title yet. The epically unpredictable suite featured an album's worth of ideas as it went from pummeling drum rhythms to near-a cappella crooning. Its overall effect was unsettling, daunting, thrilling."

Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 June 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link

omg omg can't wait

arby's, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link

Taking advantage of WI recall fallout?

That said, the senator makes me so mad I'll probably end up reflexively passing on this.

Hennesy Williams (EDB), Friday, 22 June 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah, it would be an opportune time to switch back to Noel Scott Engel!

Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 June 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link

cf. Joe Budden's return immediately following Joe Biden becoming Obama's running VP.

Hennesy Williams (EDB), Friday, 22 June 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link

xpost well it didn't work for the Scott 4 album

Mark G, Friday, 22 June 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link

You know I never thought about what a ~numinous~ name Noel Engel is...

Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 June 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link

"Last night at a 4AD event in New York City, the label played one new song, which does not appear to have a title yet. The epically unpredictable suite featured an album's worth of ideas as it went from pummeling drum rhythms to near-a cappella crooning. Its overall effect was unsettling, daunting, thrilling."

oh my god I'm itching to hear this

chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Friday, 22 June 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah right? He's the only one of my big heroes who is still likely to blow me away with new stuff. In all honesty I probably still think about the 'sound world' of Tilt every single day at some point, even though I almost never play it. It's like the dining room table in my memory house.

Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 June 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link

Wait we're not due another Scott Walker album for 4-5 years!

I reckon it'll take at least that much longer to emerge from his own asshole.

Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 23 June 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link

F U BRO

circa1916, Saturday, 23 June 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

That link is a 404 for me – has he deleted the tweet?

my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link

oh huh, seemingly so. it was a list of records released as review copies to a magazine, organised by artist & including Scott Walker. some speculation on the twitter account i linked about what it might be now

let's get the banned back together (schlump), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link

no I mean the tweet is a 404, the image is still visible

my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link

new Royal Trux record?

E.I.E.I. (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link

New Dinosaur jr, new Schneider TM, new Pelt and new Pet Shop Boys too - is this a leak from 1995?

mod night at the oasis (NickB), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link

I see A.R. Kane also, on that list.

Mark G, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link

http://instagram.com/p/Pt6YjsDsWt/

Hugh Burns' 68 custom which has graced Scott Walker's Tilt, Drift & Bish Bosch albums.

50 miles of lmao room (unregistered), Sunday, 23 September 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link

3rd December then!

(Cue NSouthall to say 'never gonna happen')

Mark G, Sunday, 23 September 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link

Wh...wha... *faints*

Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 23 September 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link


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