Scott Walker – Tilt (Vinyl)

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Released in 1995 Scott Walker's Tilt is 28 years old and is still a challenging listen. It’s recommended as an accompaniment for those days when not only do you find yourself cut o ff from the rest of civilization, but when you want to be alone in your misery and savor the darkness. It's a masterpiece of dark noise with a disturbing reminder of our alienation.The album was met with positive reviews despite or maybe because of its arcane, unpleasant, theatricality. It features a chamber orchestra, bass lines that echo menacingly, a cathedral organ, locusts, uncomfortable silences, clanging machine noises, and more to suggest a quashed normalcy amidst dangerous circumstances. Plus, Walker didn’t sing as much as melodramatically bellow, vibrate, and tear off lyrics that were often non-sequential and evoked of past horrors such as the murder of the avant-garde Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, and Bolivian political prisoners. It was Walker’s first album in more than a decade and revealed the former pop star to be an intense artist determined to follow his vision.|Vinyl, LP, ReissueTracklist: Farmer In The City 6:37 The Cockfighter 6:01 Bouncer See Bouncer 8:46 Manhattan 6:05 Face On Breast 5:15 Bolivia '95 7:55 Patriot (A Single) 8:27 Tilt 5:12 Rosary 2:40 Show more