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SCOTT WALKER "Drift" Reviews
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Release: 23 May 2006
Label: 4ad / Ada
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| MusicOMH.com |
Rating: 10.0 |
Yet for all its dark truths, horrific imagery and harsh musical textures, The Drift is an extraordinarily rewarding listen.
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| Guardian |
Rating: 10.0 |
There's not a minute of The Drift that isn't utterly thrilling.
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 9.0 |
Walker inspires, scares, confuses, provokes-- not because he wants to manipulate you, but because he's an interesting person who's worked a long time trying to make interesting music.
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| Popmatters |
Rating: 9.0 |
A Horror Soundtrack for Our Times.
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 6.7 |
The problem with The Drift, besides the fact that it’s the least funny Scott Walker album ever made, is that it’s beautiful modernist art.
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| DustedMagazine |
Rating: 6.5 |
It is, simply, a work of staggering emotional sentiment and complexity that few will be able to match.
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| The Independent |
Rating: 6.0 |
Nothing on The Drift is quite as startling as the impression of Donald Duck that concludes "The Escape".
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| Times Online |
Rating: 6.0 |
Revisiting Tilt recently, it sounded dark, visceral and vital. The Drift initially seems equally, if not more, impenetrable — but shapes do materialise slowly through the vistas of sound.
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