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"Ok, lets call ourselves ... The Curtains"

How many band names are destined to be reused? Even when there had been some success for the previous?

Discogs can help with the numbered versions of "Air", "Oasis" and "The Primitives". There were two Amboy Dukes at the same time. Also, two Kaleidoscope groups. They were clearly obvious names then.

But what would be, now? Or even of all time?

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Although the Punk Front only lasted one year, it recruited several English punks, as well as forming a number of white power punk bands such as The Dentists, The Ventz, Tragic Minds and White Boss.

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Viscerally Piercing the Semantic Mist
‘Soused,’ Scott Walker’s Unusual New Album With Sunn O)))

By BEN RATLIFFOCT. 9, 2014

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A veteran obscurantist: Scott Walker, whose album “Soused,” a collaboration with Sunn O))), is due out Oct. 20. Credit Jake Walters/Contour by Getty Images
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LONDON — There’s a song on the singer Scott Walker’s modestly terrifying new collaboration with the drone metal group Sunn O))) called “Herod 2014,” and it seems to have something like a narrative.

This is unusual for Mr. Walker, 71, an American who became famous in Britain with the Walker Brothers in the mid-’60s, singing dance-craze numbers and morose, easy-listening wall-of-sound ballads. (The best known was “Make It Easy on Yourself,” in 1965.) As a group, the Walker Brothers were flawed almost to the point of being nonsensical, and after 1967, Mr. Walker set upon a course of ambitious solo records. Especially since “Climate of Hunter” in 1984, they have become cultish prizes, intricate puzzles of shock, indirection, nonresolution, theatrical uses of text and extended technique, often with a 40-piece orchestra. In an interview last month at his manager’s home office here, he told me that he was always looking for what he called a “whoops factor”: a moment of incomprehension on the part of the listener

Once a romantic hero, then an existential one — blond, narrow-hipped, unsmiling behind sunglasses — Mr. Walker no longer has a stage persona. He hasn’t performed in public since a television appearance in 1995, and hasn’t played a concert since 1978. Whatever his music is now, it’s not pop. He’s a composer who happens to use his voice, a semi-operatic baritone pushed to high and quivering extremes, as an instrument to serve his meticulous texts, which on the new album, “Soused,” include words like “bliaut” — a 12th-century European overgarment — and “bescumber.” (Look it up.) And maybe something else: a maker of abstract dramas with tones as characters. His work demands that you come more than halfway toward his isolation, his need to do things differently, and perhaps his story of turning from light to dark.

I would argue that “Soused,” which comes out Oct. 20 on the 4AD label, might be the first music Scott Walker has made in a very long time — maybe since his contributions to the Walker Brothers’ final record, “Nite Flights,” in 1978 — that can be absorbed into the body and enjoyed as a thrill, without needing to learn a lot of other context about his aesthetic transgressions, without attending to the Myth of Scott. Rather than withholding musical or emotional payoffs, which has long been his way, there’s a sort of constant payoff here: no orchestra this time, but the steady electric-guitar and bass drones of Sunn O))) (simply pronounced sun), rich and distorted and marvelous.

In the lyrics of “Herod,” a woman appears to be protecting her children from the outside world, which is full of forces that seem treacherous, skeletal, verminous. “She’s hidden her babies away,” he croons repeatedly. There’s a reference to “the goon from the Stasi,” to crèches “heaving with lush lice” and to “posed, high,/pelvic bridges.” And under the carpeting drones of Sunn O))) and various prehistoric-sounding noises, there is a small bell tone, repeatedly struck, almost all the way through.

Mr. Walker, born Noel Scott Engel in Ohio — the Walker Brothers were neither Walkers nor brothers — has lived in London for most of his life now. During our conversation, I asked him about the bell. It’s a strange thing, I said: It becomes blotted out by the other sounds, such that you forget it’s there. But it keeps going. “Yes,” he said, perking up. “Oh, I’m glad you mentioned it. I haven’t mentioned this to anyone. The bell, in a sense, is representing her.”

The mother?

“No, the, uh....” Mr. Walker suddenly redirected the conversation. He is more like a writer or a painter than a musician. You get the sense he’d like to be alone with his work as soon as possible. Dressed in his regular uniform these days of skinny jeans and military cap, he was polite and factual, and stopped talking when he wanted to keep something to himself. But here, he felt compelled to elucidate, if only to convey the song’s meaning to me in particular, a listener with the capability of influencing other listeners. “The she, of ‘She’s hidden her babies away,’ the woman, the woman image.” Not a mother, not even necessarily a person. The bell, he explained, is “being suppressed, and buried all the way through the track. I’m glad, because I was worried: Can you still just about hear that?”

Later, I asked Mr. Walker’s producer and engineer, Peter Walsh, about the bell. (Mr. Walker has worked with Mr. Walsh exclusively since 1984, and with many of the same musicians. When he talks about his music, he says “we,” or sometimes “you,” as in, “There’s always 40 strings on all the records, because you need that weight.”) Mr. Walsh hadn’t known about the bell’s representing the woman, but indicated that it was a “major concern”: carefully adjusting its volume through the mix, making it just audible.

Another major concern during the making of “Soused,” recalled Stephen O’Malley, a guitarist in Sunn O))), was that the record should not sound “epic” — which is funny, of course, because epic is what you’re going to get if you enlist Sunn O))). Mr. Walker likes it when instruments don’t fulfill their normative roles. So saxophones and trumpets sound like animal cries. And guitars sound like the creation of the universe.

Mr. Walker’s tendency toward protection and obscurantism runs deeper than that, however. He doesn’t communicate what the songs are “about” to the musicians, or even Mr. Walsh, and only sings the lyrics in isolation, at the end of a recording session. Mr. Walsh is possibly the only person who has seen Mr. Walker sing in the last two decades.

The Myth of Scott includes a period of alcoholism (and strangely halfhearted country-pop records) in the 1970s. But the word “Soused,” Mr. Walker confirmed, is to be taken in its other meaning: drenched, or plunged into water. That could have something to do with the flooding quality of the drones, the thickness of that sound. Mr. O’Malley, 40, and Greg Anderson, 43, the principals in Sunn O))), are serious fans of Mr. Walker. They asked him to participate on its album “Monoliths & Dimensions,” from 2009, but Mr. Walker wasn’t available; subsequently, he circled back to using them on his own record.

“I’m always looking for an elemental, primal noise in my music,” he explained. “I thought, what’s more basic, more primal, than a drone?” It didn’t take long to make his decision. “I figured, if I’m going to do the drone thing, they’re the kings of the drone, to me. I might as well get them.” But interestingly — or typically — the decision to work with Sunn O))) wasn’t necessarily about musical sound per se. Like all Mr. Walker’s decisions about his music, the words come first. The sound is something to set the words against, a kind of cushion to display the text. “I love the idea of the drones,” he said, “because I could get those gaps, you see, between phrases. Which I usually fill with silence, but now I had the drones.”

Without meeting in person, without discussing how much he or the band knew of the other’s work, he provided Sunn O))) with wordless demos of the tracks that he and Mr. Walsh made entirely with synthesizers, plotting out almost exactly what the band was to play, Mr. O’Malley said, with great intuition about the band’s sound and style.

Sunn O))) brought its entire stage back line to London: a wall of amplifiers variously made by Marshall, Ampeg, Hiwatt and Sunn, from whose logo the band took its name. Mr. Walker told me that he was used to recording guitars loud in the studio but that this was a different story. “When you stepped into the studio, it just came up to your knees,” he said. “We all had to wear earplugs when we were in there.”

To some extent, the directive that the record not sound epic is followed in the first seconds of the album, in the menacing track “Brando.” (The title, and its refrain — “A beating would do me a world of good” — refers, Mr. Walker explained, to how Marlon Brando seemed to get beaten up in so many of his films.) The opening is gigantic: an organ tone; Mr. Walker belting, “Ah, the wide Missouri!”; and a sweeping, clear guitar line — one that could easily be described as epic. That guitar line is followed by another one, abrasive and staccato and brutal, about 20 decibels louder in the mix. It’s like the beating up of epic.

I also asked about “Fetish,” an episodic song on the album that builds up serious intensity three minutes in, with crashing drums and power chords, so that you expect the singer to suddenly be singing the heart of the song. But he doesn’t: He continues with the same kind of fractured images as before. It’s startling how that frustrates the listener. Was that on purpose?

“Well, yes,” Mr. Walker said, “because in a sense that’s what most of my songs are about. Frustration, and failure. Sometimes, if I have a romantic lead line, I think to myself, people are really going to like this, because they can lock on to it. And if that starts to happen, I’ll” — he smacked his fist — “do something about it. Because I’m — I’m not interested in that, basically.”

A version of this article appears in print on October 12, 2014, on page AR17 of the New York edition with the headline: Viscerally Piercing the Semantic Mist . Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe

the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Thursday, 9 October 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link

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mattresslessness, Thursday, 9 October 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link

wp ILAFL

Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 9 October 2014 23:18 (nine years ago) link

they're rightly exploiting the early 90s to get some still-popular headliners but it's gonna thin out fast

2015 right-outta-the-gate headliners: Green Day, Nine Inch Nails
2016: Pearl Jam
2017: Stone Temple Pilots?
2018: ?
2019: ?
2020: If not canceled due to water shortage/nuclear war/massive indifference...FOO FIGHTERS!!!!

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mattresslessness, Thursday, 9 October 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link

Numerophiles-

It will comes as no surprise to anyone reading this missive that we make a lot of vinyl. By year's end we'll have produced 43 unique titles for the year (down from 48 in 2013) across a handful of different imprints. About two years ago we launched a series of records dedicated to replicating original LPs down to their tiniest detail, using Numero's benchmark for quality. "The 1200s"—as they're known around the office—have grown from four modest LPs by Zion, Illinois' Shoes to nearly 40 albums, spanning a wide variety of genres and decades. We're pleased to add three more to record bins and shelves everywhere, available at finer shops or our website now.
The Montgomery Express

THE MONTGOMERY MOVEMENT

Funk's answer to the Five Blind Boys of Alabama, Florida's Montgomery Express stood at the crossroads of politically conscious soul and mystically awakened dance music. Comprised of two blind musicians in their 20s and a teenage rhythm section, their lone LP was cut in 1972 for Orlando's Dove label, then reissued on Folkways two years later. Although the label usually steered clear of soul music and anything remotely commercial sounding, Montgomery Express tapped into Folkways' Guthrie-cum-Chamber Bros. nerve.

Sensational Saints

YOU WON'T BELIEVE IT

Formed in the early '50s under the watchful eye of Tuskegee, Alabama, transplant Charles Chambliss, the Sensational Saints were handpicked from a Cleveland clothing store, a pool room, and from a group of friends singing from a third story window. After years spent rotating members and issuing stray singles for assorted non-denominational imprints, the group connected with the vocally inclined Reverend Melvin Kenniebrew at the close of the '60s, making good on their "Sensational" boast. "With God in their hearts and singing on their minds," the Sensational Saints mounted their crown jewel in 1973 with "You Won't Believe It" (Try It You'll Like Us). Pressed in conservative quantities by local gospel magnate James Bullard on his King James label, the group's lone long-player perfectly encapsulates the intersection of funk and gospel as only the religious conversion of a Bill Wither's tune can do.

Bulbous Creation

YOU WON'T REMEMBER DYING

A truly underground document of the national obsession with heavy, mind-bent psychedelia. Originating in the unassuming suburb of Prairie Springs, KS, Bulbous Creation seem to have warped directly from the wrong side of the looking glass with a jabberwocky full of surreal lyrics and gratuitous guitar solos. Recorded and abandoned in the catacombs of Independence, Missouri's Cavern Sound studio in 1969, Bulbous Creation's eight-song screed invokes images of sinners, wage slaves, drugs, out of touch parents, jail, and the devil, naturally.

― dow, Thursday, October 9, 2014 5:21 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mattresslessness, Thursday, 9 October 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link

Just A Bit Of Fun, So Let's Be Cool

Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 9 October 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link

yes

Treeship, Friday, 10 October 2014 03:45 (nine years ago) link

the rolling bears

Karl Malone, Friday, 10 October 2014 03:47 (nine years ago) link

Lap Band Songery

GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 10 October 2014 06:15 (nine years ago) link

The Shut The Fuck Up

wackness unlimited (snoball), Friday, 10 October 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link

Wank Your Hands Say Clap

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 10 October 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link

whoever suggested The Curtains needs to pull themselves together

Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 12 October 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link


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