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Scott Walker: Bish Bosch
4AD
Musical trajectories don’t come much odder than Scott Walker’s, in both arc and destination. Taking the name “Walker” when joining the vanilla boy-pop trio the Walker Brothers in 1964, the man born Scott Engel discovered, by turn, Jacques Brel, discophonic surreality (see 1978’s Nite Flights ) and, by the mid-‘90s, epically unfolding theater for the ear. Bish Bosch begins with an insistent doom-rock tom-roll and Walker’s a cappella Van Dyke Parks-like wordplay about “plucking feathers from a swan song,” and it’s off to wonderland. Mostly, the drums come in short bursts or not at all, the album’s otherworldliness remaining undiminished through horn cascades and finger snaps (“Epizootic”), redemptive dream-floats (“Dimple”) and 21-minute half-symphonic WTFs (“SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)”).
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