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  2012 Back To Black reissue

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Scott Walker

Scott

180 Gram Vinyl with Download When Scott Walker recorded this his first solo album he was 23 years old and sounded about two hundred He was rich handsome absurdly famous and he hated it Though the walker brothers the band his cavernous croon decorated specialised in lavishly overproduced heroically lachrymose ballads 'make it easy on yourself' 'the sun ain't gonna shine anymore' any subtlety they attempted was being lost beneath the screams of their teenage audiences Scott Walker took to spending his days in darkened hotel rooms and becoming steadily obsessed with the work of legendarily louche belgian songwriter Jacques Brel On the cover of Scott a sunglasswearing Walker stares tetchily at his shoes as if the merest intrusion of a camera was by this point becoming intolerable he needn't have looked so glum the sleeve contained a masterpiece of the 12 tracks on 'Scott' three were written by Walker three by Brel and the rest by other famously consumptive writers such as Tim Hardin and Kurt Weil Walker sang all of them like they were his valedictory message to humanity finding greater depths than ever in his awesome voice and drenching the whole thing in great surges of strings This is a classic which generations of selfconsciously misunderstood young men have clasped close to their hearts ever since br

Tracklist

• 1. Mathilde
  2. Montague Terrace (In Blue)
  3. Angelica
  4. The Lady Came From Baltimore
  5. When Joanna Loved Me
  6. My Death
  7. The Big Hurt
  8. Such A Small Love
  9. You're Gonna Hear From Me
  10. Through A Long And Sleepless Night
  11. Always Coming Back To You
  12. Amsterdam