let’s ‘drift’ again
Last year, Scott Walker released The Drift, a record that generated some of the most terrifically polarized eMusic User Reviews of all time (i highly recommend reading all seven pages worth when you get some time). Walker is notoriously reclusive — his detractors probably wish he’d remain that way — so his appearance on Plague Songs with the chilling track “Darkness” was an unexpected treat.
But what if Walker surfaced again in 2006 and everyone missed it? Witness the MySpace page of one J.P. Buckle. Buckle is a British musician and one-time collaborator with Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker in Relaxed Muscle. Cocker and Walker are very close friends. And not to make much of happenstance connections, but don’t the vocals on the track “Give Inn” (featured on Buckle’s MySpace page) sound awfully familiar…?
Thanks! I quite like the track and The Drift was my fave album of 2006.
I had the privilege of interviewing Scott Walker many years ago at the Kensington Hilton in London, when he was promoting Climate Of Hunter. Clearly a very intelligent man, he was intensely frustrating to speak to because he would go off at all kinds of tangents from the question asked so that by the end of his spiel you weren’t quite sure whether or not he’d actually been answering the question you’d just asked.
His other response was to say nothing at all. Or ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ and then stare off around the room (the Japanese restaurant) as if he thought the CIA was on his tail. Sad really.
Personally, I’ll take The Walker Brothers pop product any day over Scott’s enigmatic cerebral solo years.
Johnny B
he’s gone a complete 180 recently; i interviewed him for this past record, and it felt like every answer had been rehearsed right down to the pauses. i love the walker brothers, too, but am still a sucker for solo scott.