Scott Walker signs to 4AD!

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very interesting news...

SCOTT WALKER has signed a new record deal with cult indie label 4AD.

The star, who first found fame in the 1960s with The Walker Brothers, has not released an album since 1995’s ‘Tilt’. He is best known for his quartet of 1960s albums, ‘Scott’ through to ’Scott 4’.

4AD have also enjoyed a long history, providing home to the US indie dynasty of the Pixies, The Breeders and Throwing Muses.

Walker is expected to begin recording his first material for the label imminently.

http://www.nme.com/news/107686.htm

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Monday, 1 March 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't wait! (although it's probably gonna takes years for anything to surface...)

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Monday, 1 March 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd almost given up ever hearing anything further from him. The last thing he did, those songs for Ute Lemper, were phenomenal. This will be the release of the year if really ever does get around to it.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 1 March 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

John D is now a labelmate with Scott Walker = I love the way the world works.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

that's the first thing I thought of :). Package tour!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh this makes me so happy I don't even know what to say.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

will he be playing live? i know people who would give their right arm to see that.

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott Walker Sings the Happy Family

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The last thing he did, those songs for Ute Lemper, were phenomenal. This will be the release of the year if really ever does get around to it.

Isn't he all over that Pulp record from a couple years ago?

For someone who's last record was so hit/miss, I'm guessing all of y'all are pro-Tilt?

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, he produced it but I don't think he sang any.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 1 March 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked that Pulp record, but I can't wait for more Little Scottie Engel.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

For someone who's last record was so hit/miss, I'm guessing all of y'all are pro-Tilt?

have you ever read ILM? I think we all established that Tilt was the greatest album ever made!

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

...with science no less!

this is cool news

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 1 March 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

link please.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 1 March 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Revive! Scott's first 4AD album is due out in the autumn, and will feature the Cocteau's Liz Fraser. This is about all I know.

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Thursday, 23 June 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

Huzzah, an early Christmas present right in the middle of Summer. Any word on who else he's working with?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 23 June 2005 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

There is a Scott Walker film in the works too. Or was...

http://www.scottwalkerfilm.com/blog/archives/2005/06/ragged_soldier.html#more

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Thursday, 23 June 2005 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

great news. the liz fraser collab doesn't bode well, however.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

...or alternately it's one of the best pieces of news around! Woo!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 June 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

My guess is that she'll be recorded totally dry, singing in an unfamiliar register that doesn't even sound like her. As SW once described Sylvian as "a bit more of an ethereal merchant than me", I'm surprised the Cocteaus are something he likes.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 June 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Baritones are like male dogs — they don't along so well.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds like a lyric from Tilt

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

you post

together
in dreams that

i knew where

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Any word on who else he's working with?
hmmm, perhaps i should start a rumour that he's working with m.i.a.

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Scott Walker ft. M.I.A. - 'I Got U Babe (remix)' OMG OMG has this leaked yet?

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 23 June 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

belated link for gygax:

Scott Walker : Tilt

― donut e-go (donut), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Don't even joke about working with M.I.A., gah.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

what about MDC?

― donut e-go (donut), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

As for Liz's guest singing.. I mean, if it's anything like Billy Ocean's guest singing on Climate Of Hunter, I don't think there will be much to "worry about".. (actually, "Track Three", the song with Ocean on it is one of my favorites, and I don't see what's bad about the concept of Frazier or Ocean singing, period.) I don't think Walker is just going to hand her the grand spotlight on the track(s) in question.. probably far less so than Lawrence did on "Primitive Painters".. again, I stress "guessing" here...

― donut e-go (donut), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

We're here to warn you
They're gonna say shut up and buy
You know how to whistle don't you
You put your lips together and blow

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

!!!!!!!!!

I could positively explode. I hope, hope, hope this release date stays firm.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

that's an autumn 2016 release date, btw

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 June 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

what did he do with ute? this news made my fucking week.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 23 June 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

he wrote a song for one of her albums a few years back

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

it was called "i'd walker, but i wouldn't lemper"

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

which album?

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 24 June 2005 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

"The punishing kiss," i believe...

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 24 June 2005 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

From indiewire.com (august 3):

"30 Century Man: The Music of Scott Walker"

Responsible for some of the biggest hits of the 60s, he was once more popular than The Beatles and to this day his music has influenced the likes of Bono and David Bowie, so why have you never heard of Scott Walker?

After heading the pop scene in the UK with his band The Walker Brothers, the American-born Walker has since become an eccentric recluse who never grants interviews and releases an album every 15 years. But somehow Stephen Kijak ("Cinemania") gained access for what he hopes will be a revealing doc about Walker. "I met with his managers and they just liked our pitch," Kijak says of his idea to tag along as Walker works on his latest album. "We didn't want to do a retrospective on him, we wanted to look at him here and now, examine the music he's making today, and make a movie that felt like his music that pushed the boundaries."

Kijak also interviews the groups who've been influenced by Walker's work including Bowie (who's executive producer), Sting, Franz Ferdinand and Radiohead. "We've just been traveling with all sorts of Scott Walker vinyl and that's were the discussion goes," he says. "The guys in Radiohead had never seen them on vinyl before, they were like kids."

Produced through Kijak's Loop Filmworks and Mia Bays' ("24 Hour Party People") UK-based Missing In Action Films, Kijak's currently filming interviews and Walker's studio sessions. Shot on DV by cinematographer/director Grant Gee ("Meeting People Is Easy"), graphic design company Tomato (known for creating the opening credits in "Trainspotting") is creating the graphics for the doc's music interludes.

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Looking good! Any news on his new album though?

― Gerard (Gerard), Monday, 15 August 2005 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

franz ferdinand have been influenced by scott walker?? prove it, lads.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

sting???????????

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

I think he's just being cited as an influence on hairstyle here.

― Soukesian, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

Sting probably claims to be influenced by Throbbing Gristle too. I mean, it's obvious from the music.

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

This is all very well and groovy, but has anyone actually seen a release date or any other details about this new album that's supposedly "due out in the autumn"?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

didn't say which autumn though did it?

given that climate was '84 and tilt '95 he's on schedule to bring it out next year.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

Given that Scott, Scott 2, Scott 3 came out in 1967, 1968 and 1969, you could also argue (and indeed I'd very much like to) that he's currently running at least 25 albums behind schedule and really needs to get his finger out.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

Don't forget Scott 4 also came out in '69!

Then the oil crisis happened and the avant-money ran out.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

"Don't forget Scott 4 also came out in '69!"

Exactly - he actually managed to get an album ahead at one point and still managed to let things slip to the current arrears situation!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

I used to see him on the High Road quite frequently when I lived in Chiswick back in the mid-'90s. Once I went into the MVC record shop there and he was buying a LaBradford album.

He apparently spends most of his time in the pub playing darts.

Royalty cheques, eh? It's all right for some...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

"Don't forget Scott 4 also came out in '69!"

As did "Scott Walker Sings Songs From His Television Series"!!

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

It sounds more like a lyric from Heathen.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

don't forget that mighty Pola X !

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

The only other celebrity I ever saw in Chiswick MVC was Michael Barrymore. He was buying Bilingual by the Pet Shop Boys.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

WHEN IS THIS COMING OUT? IT IS AUTUMN NOW! IS ELIZABETH FRASIER REALLY ON IT? DID SCOTT REALLY INVENT CHORDS THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO PLAY ON THE GUITAR?

― La Monte (La Monte), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

HE RECORDED THE ENTIRE ALBUM UNDERWATER! ONLY GHOSTS PLAY INSTRUMENTS! IT IS COMING OUT WHEN MANTISES LEARN SPEECH!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

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DIDNT YOU KNOW
THAT IM NOT THE WORLDS STRONGEST MAN
WHEN IT COMES TO YOU
AND YOUR WORLD IM LOST

― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 7 October 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

x-post

baahahahhaahha

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 8 October 2005 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

He is in the studio mixing it now!!!

― Geraldine McGuckin (2raggedsoldiers), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

THE STUDIO IS AT THE VERY TOP OF MOUNT EVEREST! SHERPAS ARE DOING ALL THE BOUNCES FROM TAPE TO PROTOOLS!

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

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