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

"bull" is catchy as hell

won't miss the bees!
they're leaping like a river dancer's nuts!

I'm v excited to hear that he is fucking with the Salome legend!

Xp is the line after that the one containing the word "futz"? That made me happy. Like "cacafuego" in bish bosch. I grin from ear to ear when my most excellent words show up. "Bdelloid rotifers join the chitterling circuit" - chitterling! & the music functions in a similar way for me, like "phrasing" and "epizootics" are fucking joyous. It's something that ppl don't tend to acknowledge about his stuff, they'll go on about how obscure & ascetic it all is & maybe throw in a line about the humour but rarely talk about the amount of sheer pleasure to be had from the turns of phrase, the references, the crazy sounds &c

Played this new one twice through, I like it a lot. Brando is gorgeous.

Also in this new one does he sing "could not give toss" at some stage or am I mishearing?

On first listen this is terrific, we're listening in the car and it sounds likes Sabbath but with jokes

fgti as always I will look forward to your thoughts on the arrangements.

this is incredible so far

A question for those already in possession of this: what's the running time of the last track?

i have "lullaby" at 6:34. not sure how 'official' my copy is though

Me too, on both counts.

Release has been pushed back a month. See you in November guys

Boo

My "lullaby" cuts out abruptly, I'm assuming it won't on the real album. I can wait till I've bought it, I think I prefer "lullaby (by-by-by)" anyway

into this even more than the ulver split, and between this and 'bish bosch' i am in awe of wisco's governor

If he's not singing "butts are leaking" on Bull, I'll be mighty disappointed.

he probably is.

speaking of leaking, i can't help feel a bit frustrated that this is available to stream so much earlier than the official release.

How is the bitrate of the leak

How is the buttrate of the leak

loool

It's 320 but as others have noted the last track is a bad rip and cuts off 3 minutes early.

Which is another reason why I always make my own rips. But it's nice to have something to tied me over.

I accurip a donkey on the streets of Galway

I'm still leaning toward not listening to a note of this til it comes out. I especially don't want to experience scottus interruptus on Lullaby...

heard this in Hudson, NY at the Basilica Sound Scape- they had a listening installation set up in a church with a giant, ridiculous audiophile pair of amps and huge speakers and you could go in and listen to the album at top volume in this spooky / austere context.

I thought it sounded fucking great. Both halves of the equation multiply each other: Scott sounds even richer and more lyrical, Sunn0)))'s riffs sound even more evil and intense, and there are all the cool textural experiments of Scott's recent records, but now with more bottom / solidity and threat.

I'm not listening till I get a real copy in my hands. It feels sort of sacrilegious not to. Walker's one of the few artists where I feel like the album is more than just the music which is why I'm disappointed my LP version of the Drift didn't come with a lyric booklet :-(

You must have the 2012 reissue then, the original LP from 2006 (which I have) came with a 12" lyric booklet.

yeah, i even wrote to 4AD and the guy rang me back personally and said he'd try and get one over to me but sadly they'd completely run out.

Really hoping that "the guy" in that post means Scott Walker.

He's not got the hang of that 'recluse' thing, has he?

Really hoping that "the guy" in that post means Scott Walker.

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He's the time operator. And the time operator takes the time to take the time. So obv.

With DL on this btw. Have the download leak sitting on my computer but can't bring myself to put on some lolmp3s. Not for this record.

http://thequietus.com/articles/16412-scott-walker-sunn-o-to-play-live

That url has unfortunately dropped the fairly important question mark from the title of the article.

think scott has been floating the idea that he might play live again since at least climate of hunter-era interviews

It actually seems more plausible for this though, on the face of it

NB if SW plays in NYC and I can't go for any reason, will take to my bed, languish, expire

I'd lay money on them playing either the Barbican or the Festival Hall in London.

He's not actually done live since "Later", and that was fairly "empty studio" right?

He's not played a gig-style gig in front of a live audience since the last ever date of the Walker Brothers Nite Flights tour which was in Birmingham's Night Out club in 1978.

when was the last time scott walker was (publicly) in the USA anyway? i assume he went back on occasion for family reasons, but has he actually toured there since the 1960s?

According to the index of a book I've got, not since a pre-fame residency at Gazzarri's in LA, lasting from January to September 1964… not what I would have guessed at. There's an appearance on a TV show - The Billy Cotton Band Show on August 8, 1967 marked with Scott singing 'My Death' but nothing else live recorded.

wow.

His profile in the US has been pretty much nonexistent, though. Most of his solo stuff up to Tilt wasn't even released here (and Tilt's US release was two years after its UK release).

I knew he lived in England but I still think of him very much as an American personality, which I should stop doing really.

In a 2006 interview with Rob Young he said about America, "I would say if I could compound all the time I've been back there in the last forty years, it might reach to three months."

http://thequietus.com/articles/16411-scott-walker-interview-sunn-o-soused

that's a coincidence. i cracked open my copy of the rest is noise and read that opening paragraph just before i went to bed last night, and it happened to be the same paragraph i read when i got up in the morning.

All I can say is I'm absolutely PSYCHED about this album coming out - and at the right time too - just as I felt my passion for Walker's music finally quelling thanks to one too many plays of Bish Bosch (which I've settled on as the finest of all his records), this comes along, and while I haven't heard it yet just reading the lyrics to Herod 2014 is making me excited.

I like the way he laughs about having to wear earplugs when recording. I wear earplugs when I'm using a practice amp and a drumkit. Wouldn't dream of going anywhere near a member of Sunn O))) without a whole pile of cotton wool.

Can we all just admit that this is the most bad-ass thing possible to say about a record in 2014:

We got my friend Pete The Whipper down from Bristol to record the whips.

Also, I want to believe that Pete the Whipper has his own theme song that's "Nick The Stripper" with appropriately adjusted words. Plays whenever he walks into a room.

Really really great interview. My heart swells with love for this man. On a list of personal heroes that includes Mark Hollis and Tom Verlaine SW is the hyper prolific one who's out there in the field locating the crux.