Scott Walker. (RIP March 2019)

Oh right, like this one.

If you're wondering: "is this a joke?" It is not a joke

haha, yeah that hurt my mind for a brief couple of seconds there. wow!! this is gonna be better than the "having fun on stage with paul stanley" record. i can just feel it in my bones.

nice to hear scott, even if briefly, on the new bat for lashes album's closing song, "the big sleep." i wonder how she talked the old recluse into it

Really? Weird...

Saw the Scott Walker documentary last month. It's worth checking out if it screens in your town or if it comes out on DVD. Whatever one's thoughts are on his later material, it's pretty fascinating to watch the guy's trajectory from 60s to today.

This looks very interesting!

The SW30 Tribute Album

Lakeshore records. Release date: April 27

“Duchess” Peter Broderick
“Big Louise” Sally Norvell
“World’s Strongest Man” Damon & Naomi
“Manhattan” Saint Etienne
“The Electrician” Laurie Anderson
“The Seventh Seal” Nicole Atkins
“Montague Terrace (in Blue)” Dot Allison
“The Bridge” Bee & Flower
“Rhymes of Goodbye” Stephanie Dosen
“It’s Raining Today” Ulrich Schnauss
“A Lover Loves” Jarboe
“Such a Small Love” Little Annie & Paul Walfisch

Not a soundtrack, but an extension of the work I’ve done with the film, continuing to follow and celebrate the influence of our man Scott. While a few men made the cut, the original idea was to get female voices to attack the songs - just a new way in…the resulting album is an almost eerily calm, nocturnal affair - in stark opposition to the industrial dramatics of The Drift. I could have kept going, vol. 2, vol. 3….well, if we sell enough of these, maybe we’ll get a crack at another.

Does anyone have the unreleased Scott Walker tracks "Free Again"/"I Get Along Without You"/"I Think I'm Getting Over You"?

“The Electrician” Laurie Anderson

Made for her to do?

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

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.)

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

such a small love is a beautiful song.

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....

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

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

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

Get the old stuff too!

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.

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

I doubt they're anything like The Fall.

"Lights of Cincinatierah!"

(soz: Thanks, appreciated)

a boy child rides upon your back-uh

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

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/

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

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".

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.

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

wonder if this is your first sb.

NEW ALBUM!?!?

http://pitchfork.com/news/46919-scott-walker-at-work-on-new-album/

woohoo

oh yeah

Makes sense -- new decade, new album.

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

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

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

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

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.

"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."

omg omg can't wait

Taking advantage of WI recall fallout?

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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.

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

F U BRO

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

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

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