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Hugo
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Username: Hugo

Post Number: 3
Registered: 06-2005
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 11:08 am:   

There was quite a good Scott Walker thread here once but it seems to have vanished... Anyway on the assumption that those who appreciate the arty drama of the Go Betweens are likely to feel similarly about Scott Walker, I'll pass on this news from the 4AD site:

19 January 06
We're delighted to announce that Scott Walker has completed work on his first album for the label.

The long-awaited new album - called "The Drift" - will be Scott's first since the ground-breaking "Tilt" was released in 1995.

4AD will release the album worldwide in May. The exact date will be announced shortly.

A documentary film about Scott's music - including the making of "The Drift" - is being made by the New York -based director Stephen Kijak. Titled "30 Century Man", it will also be released in 2006.
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Duncan Hurwood
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Post Number: 33
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 01:13 pm:   

Wooooo.

I wonder if it'll just be the sound of clanking metal.
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Hugo
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Username: Hugo

Post Number: 4
Registered: 06-2005
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 03:08 pm:   

It's beginning to sound good. Here's a preview from rock critic Ian Penman:

"Ten tracks (last one acoustic just like Tilt and Climate of Hunter).
Like Tilt only more so - darker, stranger, further out, further in.
Astonishing stuff. Three or four of the tracks (at least) career highlights: so powerful I had to listen to it in two or three track bursts. Tracks two and three actually disabled me for about 45 minutes after (the way "The Electrician" and "Farmer In The City" did when I first heard them, only more so).
If you got Tilt, you'll love this. "Haunting" doesn't begin to do justice to its emotional complexity.
Inspirational: a 63 year old who makes musicians - artists - a third his age seem like cop outs; and makes 53 or 63 (or 46) seem like a good age to really start living...
Worth the wait - and then some."

http://apawboy.blogspot.com/2006/01/yes-yes-its-new-scott-walker.html
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Randy Adams
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Post Number: 139
Registered: 03-2005
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 04:02 pm:   

Wow. Thanks for the news, Hugo. Walker is so infrequent about his releases that I forget to even look for any.
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abigail law
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Username: Abigail

Post Number: 27
Registered: 06-2005
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 04:28 pm:   

this is good news indeed.

whilst on the subject i'd like to include Amorous Humphrey Plugg as one of my favorite songs of all time
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Jeff Whiteaker
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Post Number: 153
Registered: 10-2004
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 04:39 pm:   

wow, a 4ad release even. i was listening to his song 'hero of the war' from his 4th album the other day. i think that's my favorite walker song.
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Randy Adams
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Post Number: 140
Registered: 03-2005
Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 02:52 am:   

Favorite Walker song, hmmm.

Boy Child.
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Peter Collins
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Username: Tyroneshoelaces

Post Number: 56
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 12:11 pm:   

Blimey, I was listening to Scott 4 for the first time for ages last night. Quality. My favourite song is, boringly, Big Louise, but the Amorous Humphrey Plugg is right up there.
But what's this....?

http://www.cyberrentals.com/USA/Florida/Anna-Maria-Island-Area/vacation-cottage- Brandenton-Beach/p129066.htm

A Scott fan renting out their home?

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