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The Drift

~ Scott Walker
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (8 May 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: 4AD
  • ASIN: B000EZMPEU
  • Other Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 36,207 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Listen  1. Cossacks Are 4:32£0.79
Listen  2. Clara12:43£0.79
Listen  3. Jesse 6:28£0.79
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Listen  9. The Escape 5:18£0.79
Listen10. A Lover Loves 3:11£0.79

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An utterly unique accomplishment, Scott Walker's THE DRIFT is the enigmatic British-based singer-songwriter's first official album since 1995's challenging TILT. Those looking forthe Brechtian drama and crooner stylings of Walker's laudedlate-'60s work will happily find them on these 10 haunting tracks, albeit in altered forms that often bypass melody to create what sometimes recalls a chilling sonic abstraction of Edgar Allan Poe's writings.
While two extended tracks, "Clara" and "Cue", wander down some frightening paths (occasionally calling to mind Kronos Quartet's BLACK ANGELS), and make up a considerable amount of THE DRIFT, the record also includes slightly less daunting pieces such as "Cossacks Are", which builds to propulsive rhythmic passages, and "Jesse", a brooding song seemingly rising up from some forsaken underground chamber. Far from accessible, yet mesmerizing in its bleak minimalist vision, THE DRIFT once again reinforces Walker's reputation as a fascinating and thoroughly unconventional artist.

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Hard Work, 24 May 2007
(Note: I wrote this review a while ago and gave the album four stars. That was a mistake. It should be ten. The trouble is, I can't change the rating above. Anyway, buy this album.)


When I first heard this record, I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe that someone could get away with making rubbish like this. 'Songs' sung on one note, no melody, no structure. And scary. I can't talk about individual tracks - they're all the same, scary. My daughter begged me to switch it off when she heard it, she was terrified. Fortunately, however, I gave it time and effort. So far it's been about four or five months and when I come home from work the record I always want to listen to, despite the lack of tunes, is this one. I don't understand why.

Walker's voice is amazing, of course, and the 'sonic landscape' (as Eno might put it) is constantly interesting and full of the unexpected. You can't sing along to it though.

If you're prepared to put in the effort, you may eventually enjoy this album. But don't count on it.
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Holy smokes!, 15 Nov 2006
By S. Housley (Leicester, UK) - See all my reviews
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To the reviewer below unsure as to whether to get this album: I recommend it, but be warned. It is scary, even more so than Tilt; if your Scariest Moment in Music up to now was the eerie shrieking at the heart of Face on Breast, as mine was, then prepare to have the breath knocked out of you - *twice* - by The Escape on this album. It's easily the most horrific song I can recall hearing, if not the scariest sound I've ever heard when - (spoiler) - he does that thing with his voice.

But I'm dawdling too much on the one track; the whole thing is immensely rewarding, if you're up to it, and I for one had the long-forgotten feeling, playing this for the first time, that I was actually hearing something new and different for a change. Anyone with a casual interest should hear Tilt first, imho, and progress from there. It's cold, gruelling, and cathartic; it's that man again. Enough said.
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31 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Death Fugue, 16 May 2006
Contemporary critics of the German Jewish Poet, Paul Celan, accused him of veering towards an expression that mirrored an altogether private world. Indeed, Celan set out to refine a "Hermetic language" that only he could unlock and codify, re-translating the tragedies of losing his mother and neighbours in the region of Bukovina, as the engines of extermination gathered momentum.

Just as Celan presented us with a cryptographic geography of the horrors of European Fascism. Walker boldly takes up the challenge and presents his own " Hermetic" world of horrors, without resorting to moralising. Each song is like a deep focus lense of war journalism, of the kind that we don't watch on televison anymore. Our collective eyes de-sensitized to atrocity, while our ears are deaf to the grief of the wandering dead, desperate to relay their stories to the living.


Thank god we have artists that still have private worlds.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Drift-Where do we go from here?
Listen to Clara at a high volume, without doing anything else, without any distractions and you'll probably never sleep properly again. Read more
Published 15 days ago by Mr. Aaron S. M. Gomes

2.0 out of 5 stars hyperbole and dissapointment
When Julian Cope described "the god-like genius of Scott Walker" some people must have sniggered whilst others knew it wasn't ludicrous sycophancy but an attempt to express, the... Read more
Published 2 months ago by David M. Graves

2.0 out of 5 stars Abstract schmabstract
It's all too possible. Too do-able. In the way of that Daily Mail reader reaction to Tracey Emin's conceptual art. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Bucket

5.0 out of 5 stars Even better than Tilt
I just never get tired of listening to this. Completely addictive. At first it seems unbearably dark, even after Tilt, but the humour slowly emerges. Read more
Published 17 months ago by A Reader

5.0 out of 5 stars You've never heard anything like this before
This is scary. Listen to it alone, in the dark. This is a unique artist in sound. Avant garde and yet accessible. Always searching and sometimes finding. Read more
Published 17 months ago by E. J. Bell

5.0 out of 5 stars in a world of its own
one of the most incredible and awe inspiring listens i've ever had and may ever have.

dark, pulsating and surprising multi dimensional (some times i'm scared to death... Read more
Published 20 months ago by d.a.p.

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Sound
I think the sound on this album (can you call it music?) is glorious amazing and stretches the imagination. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Liza P

4.0 out of 5 stars The audio equivalent of Pandora's Box - approach with caution
I'm so tired. Last night, I listened to The Drift for the first time, and as a result, I didn't get a wink of sleep all night. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mr. John Phillips

5.0 out of 5 stars Unique, unfriendly, fascinating
Like some others have said, this album is initially almost unlistenable in places. I listened to the first three songs before it got too intense and I actually had to turn it off,... Read more
Published on 23 Oct 2007 by Some call me... photoshop

5.0 out of 5 stars Be careful..
A few months ago I read an article on "the maddest albums ever made", The Drift was included in this. Talk of donkeys being scared and punching pork was mentioned - "eh? Read more
Published on 30 Sep 2007 by Mr. C. R. Moore

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