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  Scott Walker's First Five Solo Albums Reissued as Expansive Box Set

  April 10, 2013 – From May 24 to June 2, parts of Scott Walker's latest LP, the Essential Bish Bosch, will be reimagined as an immersive multimedia symphony. …
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  Scott Walker Transforms 'Bish Bosch' Into Immersive Audio-Visual Symphony

  March 21, 2013 – Scott Walker earned a mention in SPIN's December 2012 feature Anti-YouTube Movement of the Year: Long Songs, for crafting "SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)," a 20-minute-plus opus off the avant icon's latest LP, last year's Essential Bish Bosch. Now Walker is stretching four other tracks from his most recent album even further.The Drift-er has teamed with British mixed-media artists Iain Forsyth and Jane …
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  Anti-YouTube Movement of the Year: Long Songs

  December 17, 2012 – The received wisdom is that popular music is the province of short attention spans, which are only getting shorter: Listeners only care about callout hooks; albums are obsolete now that they're purchased one song at a time and played on shuffle; and we’re all channel-surfing from YouTube video to YouTube video. …
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  'MP3s are a Disaster': Scott Walker on the Nightmares That Plagued 'Bish Bosch'

  December 13, 2012 – The announcement of Scott Walker's newest album Bish Bosch in September came as something of a shock to anyone who had followed the surprising, striking career of the American journeyman-turned-London-experimentalist, if only because of the rapid turn-around, coming only a mere seven years since 2006's The Drift. …
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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Scott Walker, Bruno Mars, Green Day, Wiz Khalifa

  December 6, 2012 – Another week brings another round of album streams. …
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  Scott Walker, 'Bish Bosch' (4AD)

  December 6, 2012 – To understand the hold that Scott Walker has over his cult — to know why his lunatic new Bish Bosch will excite the devout even as it baffles — you should check out the birthday greeting he delivered in 1997 to lifelong acolyte David Bowie when the Thin (well, Trim) White Duke turned 50."Like everyone else, I'd like to thank you for all the years and your generosity of spirit when it comes to other artists," the notoriously private sing …
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  Hear Jarvis Cocker Grill Scott Walker on Bawdy Lyrics and Long Songs

  December 4, 2012 – In anticipation of the Tuesday release of his 14th studio album, Bish Bosch, reclusive pop experimentalist Scott Walker sat down with Jarvis Cocker for a very well-mannered chat about music-making. …
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  Scott Walker Previews 'Bish Bosch' With Brilliantly Dissonant Twofer

  November 8, 2012 – The first sound you hear on Scott Walker's new album, for several disorienting seconds, is a clipped percussion sample that sounds not unlike a skipping CD. The former U.K. teen idol, who long ago remade himself as a willfully challenging avant-garde avatar, returns on December 4 with Bish Bosch, his first album since 2006's brutalist masterpiece The Drift. …
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  Bat for Lashes Explains New Record

  January 12, 2009 – Natasha Khan, the head-band sporting Brit songstress behind mystical indie rock outfit Bat for Lashes, has revealed details for the follow-up to her SPIN-praised debut, 2007's Fur and Gold. Set for U.S. …
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