my note of caution would be, that although these are both exceptional artistic institutions, there is no guarantee that their combination will produce work with a coherence of vision & expression that outdoes their original enterprises
countering this, however, is Sunn O)))'s brilliant history of collaborations (KTL added to the above), and the sheer intrigue factor in how it'll turn out
on balance, I'm excited, although I'm not yet expecting the greatest art-music of our age
― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
Xp just fp'd u looking for the "like" button
No regrets
― fraudulent octuplets of the moment, yon californian-ass mother (wins), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
There is never a guarantee that anything will be good
― fraudulent octuplets of the moment, yon californian-ass mother (wins), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
Yes, but I'm saying that with two contrasting visions in combination, it could be awkward, although this is countered by Sunn O)))'s record with these things (usually taking a compositional back seat AFAICT, but adding brilliantly to the overall sonic miasma)
― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
What are the best collaborations y'all can think of?
― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
What!? Is this real?
This is amazing and makes way more sense than LuLu
― Moka, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
Leaked album details: Scott0))) release to be called Giggly Friendship Fun, a study of all the participants' bronydom.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
Is Oren Ambarchi going to be involved in it as well?
― Moka, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
I'm also gonna leave this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ceW4bimyA
(and listen to it)
― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
The cherry thing! xps
― fraudulent octuplets of the moment, yon californian-ass mother (wins), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah that was p gr8
― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
scott w is pretty much my favorite living musician but I've never quite gotten into sunn O))). News of a new scott project is celebration time around here, though. Here's hoping SW is squarely in the driver's seat and that Peter Walsh and Brian Gascoigne are involved as well.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
where did people get an inkling this announcement was coming? I'd heard nothing
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
If they could do something a bit like Alice but with Scott singing, I think I'll die happy.
― 3kDk (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
Jon Lewis - for me it was just a slash fiction dream I had when I put some Drift and Monoliths tracks side by side on a mix tape. Don't think there were any hints.
― 3kDk (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
i.e. http://www.mixcloud.com/doglatin/eadphuk-vol3/
― 3kDk (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
Bamber Gascoigne is involved? That's me on board, then.
― Position Position, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
I got a heads up on this a few months ago and was sworn to secrecy on pain of death. The couple of things I know. Scott's in the drivers seat but he wrote the material w/ Sunn 0))) in mind. I know Scott's long term music supervisor was heavily involved in the session too...
― Oblique Strategies, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
HEY EVERYBODY: WE'RE ALL GONNA GET LAID!!!
― Yarli Simon (rattled), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
. I know Scott's long term music supervisor was heavily involved in the session too...
That's Walsh I think? Excellent.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
While we wait, what can I listen to that'll get me more excited abt sunn? I haven't checked in w them in a few years.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
Collaboration with Ulver is supposed to be v good
― noir-ish need apply (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
I personally think that the Ensemble Pearl side project (members of Sunn O))), Boris, and Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter) lp from last was massively underrated, most people seem quite meh about it. I thought it was a masterpiece.
― festival of labour (xelab), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
edit: from last year
― festival of labour (xelab), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
will sound like a year at the dentist's
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
The first track on the Ulver collab is fantastic. The stuff with vocals, not so much. Pretty much anytime they collaborate with a vocalist (who's not Attila), I start yawning. Not particularly looking forward to this record for that reason.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
The Ulver collaboration was fine but a bit on the short side and not the earth-shattering accomplishment that some people were expecting. I like it but it's not amazing.
Atilla's vocals I've mostly gotten used to but a great deal of it is extremely hammy and daft. Walker would be a definite step up.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
The Ulver collaboration was fine but a bit on the short side and not the earth-shattering accomplishment that some people were expecting
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:04 (15 minutes ago)
such small portions etc
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
lol morbs
― guwop (crüt), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
I am claiming my place on the pre-version album, like, right mow!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
right now, even!
Is there a tracklist yet?
― Welcome to the dessert of the real (snoball), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
Nope
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
kinda surprised scott has another set of songs already, only a year and a bit after bish bosch
― Towards A New Novel (and it sucks and whatever) (wins), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
xpMorbs has the title scoop though "a year at the dentist's".
― festival of labour (xelab), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
will sound like a year at the dentist's― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, July 2, 2014 1:47 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, July 2, 2014 1:47 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
...if your dentist has the lugubrious pipes of scott walker, sure.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
He always says he wants to do another record soon when he releases something. But yeah amazed it's actually happening this time. Then again, it could be more of a pendant work like punishing kiss was to tilt or and who shall come to the ball? was to Drift.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
Then again, the two punishing kiss songs are abso top shelf scott so we should be so lucky.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
That's my guess too, Jon Lewis. Although Oblique up here said it was mainly SW's project. Maybe working with O'Malley just opened up something and made way for lots of creativity.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
Plus, wins said 'a set of songs', but it could just as well be a 2x25mins compositions lp.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
In my view Monoliths and Dimensions is SunnO)))'s crowning achievement. Love Attilla's vocals, reminds me of Gary Oldman in Dracula.
― 3kDk (dog latin), Thursday, 3 July 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
In my view Monoliths and Dimensions is SunnO)))'s crowning achievement.
That and the Oracle EP, yeah.
http://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/oracle
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 3 July 2014 03:02 (nine years ago) link
nah, peak is sustained consistent from whites through moad. more a flowering. like with a manyness of them, stamena, pistii, etc.
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 July 2014 03:25 (nine years ago) link
Hmm yeah I guess I was thinking of epic bish bosch style nos but I guess it could be a couple of small songs like "darkness" or "rosary" made monolithic
― Towards A New Novel (and it sucks and whatever) (wins), Thursday, 3 July 2014 06:54 (nine years ago) link
i'm in for the pre-covers project if it gets off the ground.. a perfect outlet for my dodgy Scott Walker vocal impersonation...
― Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Thursday, 3 July 2014 07:53 (nine years ago) link
This is a thing I was born to be in pre-cover for.
― Rabona not glue (aldo), Thursday, 3 July 2014 08:14 (nine years ago) link
But, as you say, if it turns out to be two long pieces (which I doubt, tbf), someone is going to have to segue them together.
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 July 2014 08:40 (nine years ago) link
julian cope must have shat his pants with glee when he heard about this
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 3 July 2014 09:08 (nine years ago) link
I'm holding out for a 'Picnic of Love'-style acoustic singsong.
― 3kDk (dog latin), Thursday, 3 July 2014 09:14 (nine years ago) link
So who's starting a pre-covers thread then?
― 3kDk (dog latin), Thursday, 3 July 2014 11:45 (nine years ago) link
I keep hearing tracks on the radio that are awesome that turn out to be tracks from this album.
― ͤ ͬͤ ͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤ ͬͦͬͬͤ (sarahell), Sunday, 23 November 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
they play this on the radio?
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 10:23 (nine years ago) link
was gonna say.
― Mark G, Monday, 24 November 2014 10:39 (nine years ago) link
college radio --- yes.
― ͤ ͬͤ ͬͬͤ ͦͬͬͤ ͬͦͬͬͤ (sarahell), Monday, 24 November 2014 11:27 (nine years ago) link
saw childhood of a leader last night. really good and of course the score helps. is there a thread for it?
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 2 September 2016 11:41 (seven years ago) link
Scott Walker joins Sia to soundtrack Natalie Portman film Vox Lux
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/22/scott-walker-joins-sia-to-score-vox-lux-natalie-portman
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 24 August 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
It dawns on me around this time each year that we'll never hear a new Scott Walker album again. And no doubt we won't get any sort of outtakes or lost recordings gubbins either cos he wasn't that kind of artist. And this is a deep deep shame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwm5V7hN11M
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 09:34 (two years ago) link