Scott-O -- as in Scott Walker and SunnO)))

Bamber Gascoigne is involved? That's me on board, then.

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...

HEY EVERYBODY: WE'RE ALL GONNA GET LAID!!!

. I know Scott's long term music supervisor was heavily involved in the session too...

That's Walsh I think? Excellent.

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.

Collaboration with Ulver is supposed to be v good

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.

edit: from last year

will sound like a year at the dentist's

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.

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.

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

lol morbs

I am claiming my place on the pre-version album, like, right mow!

right now, even!

Is there a tracklist yet?

Nope

kinda surprised scott has another set of songs already, only a year and a bit after bish bosch

xp
Morbs has the title scoop though "a year at the dentist's".

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

...if your dentist has the lugubrious pipes of scott walker, sure.

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.

Then again, the two punishing kiss songs are abso top shelf scott so we should be so lucky.

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.

Plus, wins said 'a set of songs', but it could just as well be a 2x25mins compositions lp.

In my view Monoliths and Dimensions is SunnO)))'s crowning achievement. Love Attilla's vocals, reminds me of Gary Oldman in Dracula.

In my view Monoliths and Dimensions is SunnO)))'s crowning achievement.

That and the Oracle EP, yeah.

http://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/oracle

nah, peak is sustained consistent from whites through moad. more a flowering. like with a manyness of them, stamena, pistii, etc.

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

i'm in for the pre-covers project if it gets off the ground.. a perfect outlet for my dodgy Scott Walker vocal impersonation...

This is a thing I was born to be in pre-cover for.

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.

julian cope must have shat his pants with glee when he heard about this

I'm holding out for a 'Picnic of Love'-style acoustic singsong.

So who's starting a pre-covers thread then?

Those only get started when you actually know the titles, right? We have no information at all.

ah true, true.

I'll be practising my haunted baritone while staring in the mirror with the lights out.

Yeah, titles needed first. However, doesn't mean you can't start planning your own masterworks.

He always says he wants to do another record soon when he releases something.

he has been speeding up his release schedule this decade.

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.)

Instrumental only, I'm hearing. Pendant then, for sure, but with more hype and coverage than is healthy for any record.

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.

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".

I really like 'Man from Reno' as a bizarro-funk version of 'Farmer in the City'

^two of my favourite Scott tracks. The 5 easy pieces box is really essential for the film disc and the lemper tracks.

It's not really a "version" tho, just shares a line or two. None of the pasolini stuff is there

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)

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.

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.

Want t-shirt