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
Those only get started when you actually know the titles, right? We have no information at all.
― emil.y, Thursday, 3 July 2014 11:55 (nine years ago) link
ah true, true.
― 3kDk (dog latin), Thursday, 3 July 2014 11:55 (nine years ago) link
I'll be practising my haunted baritone while staring in the mirror with the lights out.
― 3kDk (dog latin), Thursday, 3 July 2014 11:56 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, titles needed first. However, doesn't mean you can't start planning your own masterworks.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 July 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link
He always says he wants to do another record soon when he releases something.
he has been speeding up his release schedule this decade.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 4 July 2014 02:40 (nine years ago) link
Well the icy hand of death approaches and all. (Yes, flippant, but. He's 71 years old and...maybe he just wants to gear up and do more these days. What's guaranteed, in the end.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 July 2014 04:16 (nine years ago) link
Instrumental only, I'm hearing. Pendant then, for sure, but with more hype and coverage than is healthy for any record.
― Call the Cops, Friday, 4 July 2014 06:32 (nine years ago) link
Did anyone else hear his James Bond track? Its on the 'die another day' soundtrack, and its odd inasmuch as he returned to his old Scott 1-4 orchestrations, but its his more modern singing voice.
― Mark G, Friday, 4 July 2014 06:42 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I like that song okay. For old style scott vocals from that general time period I'm more into the two tracks he sang for goran bregovic, "man from Reno" and "indecent sacrifice".
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Friday, 4 July 2014 11:10 (nine years ago) link
I really like 'Man from Reno' as a bizarro-funk version of 'Farmer in the City'
― 3kDk (dog latin), Friday, 4 July 2014 11:15 (nine years ago) link
^two of my favourite Scott tracks. The 5 easy pieces box is really essential for the film disc and the lemper tracks.
― Towards A New Novel (and it sucks and whatever) (wins), Friday, 4 July 2014 11:16 (nine years ago) link
It's not really a "version" tho, just shares a line or two. None of the pasolini stuff is there
― Towards A New Novel (and it sucks and whatever) (wins), Friday, 4 July 2014 11:18 (nine years ago) link
i need to own 5 easy pcs sometime, I only have a lot of this stuff as mp3 (though I was lucky enough to find the japanese version of the lemper CD with both scott tracks in a used bin)
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Friday, 4 July 2014 12:16 (nine years ago) link
Aw man, if you talk much more about "Five Easy Pieces" it's going to be all I'm listening to for a week. Which isn't a bad thing and all but Scott's world just sucks me in.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 5 July 2014 04:01 (nine years ago) link
I even added some tracks to my digital copy that I felt were unduly left off!
And those Ute Lemper tracks are all that music should aspire to be - weird, compelling, still quite listenable, timeless.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 5 July 2014 04:02 (nine years ago) link
Want t-shirt
― Mark G, Sunday, 13 July 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/news/55864/195f2916.jpg
<3
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 17 July 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/55864-scott-walker-and-sunn-o-team-for-new-album-soused/
A few weeks ago, 4AD confirmed that mysterious experimental musician Scott Walker and drone metal outfit Sunn O))) would release a collaborative album. Today, the two parties have announced that album. It's called Soused, and it's due out September 22 in Europe and 23 in North America.According to a press release, Sunn O))) approached Walker about appearing on their excellent 2009 album Monoliths & Dimensions. Walker declined, but in 2013, he approached them with new music he'd written specifically for a collaboration.Soused is five tracks and 50 minutes long. It was recorded in early 2014 and features Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley, Greg Anderson, and Tos Nieuwenhuizen. It was produced by Walker and his long-time partner Peter Walsh with assistance from musical director Mark Warman. The initial double LP will be pressed on red vinyl.In February, Sunn O))) released Terrestials, a collaborative album with Ulver. Walker's last album was 2012's Bish Bosch.Soused (CD/digital):01 Brando02 Herod 201403 Bull04 Fetish05 LullabySoused (LP):A1 BrandoA2 BullB1 Herod 2014C1 FetishC2 Lullaby
According to a press release, Sunn O))) approached Walker about appearing on their excellent 2009 album Monoliths & Dimensions. Walker declined, but in 2013, he approached them with new music he'd written specifically for a collaboration.
Soused is five tracks and 50 minutes long. It was recorded in early 2014 and features Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley, Greg Anderson, and Tos Nieuwenhuizen. It was produced by Walker and his long-time partner Peter Walsh with assistance from musical director Mark Warman. The initial double LP will be pressed on red vinyl.
In February, Sunn O))) released Terrestials, a collaborative album with Ulver. Walker's last album was 2012's Bish Bosch.
Soused (CD/digital):
01 Brando02 Herod 201403 Bull04 Fetish05 Lullaby
Soused (LP):
A1 BrandoA2 BullB1 Herod 2014C1 FetishC2 Lullaby
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 17 July 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
*runs in circles like a pomeranian*
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 17 July 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
Photo makes me outrageously happy.
― Alex In Complete Agreement (aldo), Thursday, 17 July 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
I know right? Iconic photo
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 17 July 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
So used
― when there's no more room in heㄥㄥ the thread will walk the earth (wins), Thursday, 17 July 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link