Scott Walker – Tilt (Vinyl)
It's a masterpiece of dark noise with a disturbing reminder of our alienation.
The album was met with positive reviews despite or maybe because of its arcane, unpleasant, theatricality. It features a chamber orchestra, bass lines that echo menacingly, a cathedral organ, locusts, uncomfortable silences, clanging machine noises, and more to suggest a quashed normalcy amidst dangerous circumstances.
Plus, Walker didn’t sing as much as melodramatically bellow, vibrate, and tear off lyrics that were often non-sequential and evoked of past horrors such as the murder of the avant-garde Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, and Bolivian political prisoners.
It was Walker’s first album in more than a decade and revealed the former pop star to be an intense artist determined to follow his vision.
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Vinyl, LP, Reissue
Tracklist:
Farmer In The City 6:37
The Cockfighter 6:01
Bouncer See Bouncer 8:46
Manhattan 6:05
Face On Breast 5:15
Bolivia '95 7:55
Patriot (A Single) 8:27
Tilt 5:12
Rosary 2:40
It's a masterpiece of dark noise with a disturbing reminder of our alienation.
The album was met with positive reviews despite or maybe because of its arcane, unpleasant, theatricality. It features a chamber orchestra, bass lines that echo menacingly, a cathedral organ, locusts, uncomfortable silences, clanging machine noises, and more to suggest a quashed normalcy amidst dangerous circumstances.
Plus, Walker didn’t sing as much as melodramatically bellow, vibrate, and tear off lyrics that were often non-sequential and evoked of past horrors such as the murder of the avant-garde Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, and Bolivian political prisoners.
It was Walker’s first album in more than a decade and revealed the former pop star to be an intense artist determined to follow his vision.
|
Vinyl, LP, Reissue
Tracklist:
Farmer In The City 6:37
The Cockfighter 6:01
Bouncer See Bouncer 8:46
Manhattan 6:05
Face On Breast 5:15
Bolivia '95 7:55
Patriot (A Single) 8:27
Tilt 5:12
Rosary 2:40
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