The Myth of Scott Walker

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2014

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Jon Caramanica and Ben Ratliff discuss Scott Walker and “Soused,” his new album with the drone-metal band Sunn O))).

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0:00.0	All the wide mystery.
0:07.0	Welcome to the New York Times pop cast,
0:08.8	your drone bleed of music, news and criticism.
0:12.0	I'm your host John Caramonica.
0:15.0	Across the wide Missouri Never enough.
0:27.0	No, never enough.
0:30.0	No, never enough.
0:31.0	You've just been assaulted. You've been assaulted. That is, tell us the name of the
0:37.6	track, Ben Ratliff. Brando. Yeah it is. That's right. It's Brando from Soust.
0:43.7	Soust, as I'm sure all of our listeners are extremely aware of,
0:47.7	is the new album by Obscurantist singer, songwriter, Scott Walker, in collaboration with Droney Dudes, son.
0:58.5	Right.
0:59.5	Get your Right on magazine.
1:00.5	It was pretty much as soon as it was announced.
1:02.8	Absolutely.
1:03.6	People were like, yeah.
1:05.4	Well, Scott Walker appeals to a certain kind of a shut-ins.
1:10.6	A certain kind of listener who does like to impress their friends and associates with the
1:16.8	difficulties of what they like.
1:19.0	Is it true that these listeners only have two friends to impress though?
1:21.8	Let's just be impress. No.
1:22.6	No.
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