{"id":8868,"date":"2013-02-06T15:26:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8868"},"modified":"2013-02-06T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:26:08","slug":"scott-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/02\/scott-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTT  WALKER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8869\" title=\"SCOTT-WALKER-M-Review-No24\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SCOTT-WALKER-M-Review-No24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SCOTT-WALKER-M-Review-No24.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SCOTT-WALKER-M-Review-No24-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>S<\/strong><strong>COTT\u00a0 WALKER<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Bish Bosch<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[4AD]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Scott Walker\u2019s output has been sporadic over the last 30 years, but he always makes the music of nightmares. On his first album since 2006, he interrupts stretches of silence with disjointed moments of off-kilter musicality. <em>Bish Bosch<\/em> is full of mechanical sounds\u2014from the industrial hammering intro of the opening track to guitars that sound like television static and the repeated motif of sharpening knives. Hitchcockian strings and massive echoing drums only add to the sense of foreboding. His operatic voice, meanwhile, has tremendous potential for camp, especially when he delivers witty asides like, \u201cNothing clears a room like removing a brain.\u201d The same goes for the glockenspiel that taps out \u201cJingle Bells\u201d following chiming sleigh bells. Walker\u2019s humor adds extra creepiness, making him the evil clown of art rock. For all the posturing of artists in supposedly threatening genres like black metal and gangsta rap, few artists create music more terrifying and psychologically unsettling. \u2013Amanda Farah<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT\u00a0 WALKER Bish Bosch [4AD] Scott Walker\u2019s output has been sporadic over the last 30 years, but he always makes the music of nightmares. On his first album since 2006, he interrupts stretches of silence with disjointed moments of off-kilter musicality. Bish Bosch is full of mechanical sounds\u2014from the industrial hammering intro of the opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[3087,196,5955,5885,5954],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8870,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868\/revisions\/8870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}