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LP / Format
Fontana / Label
Experimental, Singer-Songwriter, Experimental Rock
Dark Ambient
, Neoclassical Darkwave
, Post-Industrial
/ GenreScott Walker / Writer
Full Credits
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Critic Reviews
86
Tilt is good. Scarily, maddeningly good. It is like an old mansion full of haunted arcana: revolving bookcases, secret rooms, a golden pouf to perch on sipping ancient eau de vie.
3y
80
What made Tilt so relevant to both then and now isn’t its gloom. It’s something deeper; a sense of personal alienation not only from the world but from music’s ability to console and comfort.
3y
80
Indescribably barren and unutterably bleak, Tilt is the wind that buffets the gothic cathedrals of everyone's favorite nightmares.
13y
80
Tilt leavens Walker's signature melancholy with a new kind of dread, generated by sparse, unconventional percussion, rattling white-noise dissolves, and some truly gnarly guitar.
11y
80
Unlike most other albums, even those which could be compared to this, Tilt is a genuine experience, rather than merely an album. It's not something to listen to, it's something where you really have to lie back and let it wash over you, even though your better judgement is screaming at you not to do exactly that.
9y
80
Walker now sings with a mournful choke about millennial dread and horror at human brutality. From its grand church-organ-driven arias ("Manhattan") to its bleak, shifting soundscapes ("Bolivia '95"), Tilt is a chilling, often magnificent view into the abyss from a true iconoclast.
3y
The darkness stopped dripping through the stars...
Scott Walker... just the name gives me the shivers. Pop Giant or Dark Wizard? Variety singer or avant-garde poet making horribly draining and uncompromising music? Pretty-boy with sunglasses or undisputed master of your most terrifying nightmares? Scott Engel (his real name) is all of these things at once; and all of them with unparalleled brilliance. Hard to qualify this accomplished artist, whose musical career took a most radical turn with ... read more
[Genre: Experimental]
Scott Walker is known for two important arcs in his musical career, those being his lush baroque pop in the 60s... and his later avant-garde approach to the genre with an ominous and dark tone. Tilt was the first major step into that territory and... yeah, it's brilliant. I don't think this album's impossible to get into by any means, in fact the sound is a bit more conventional than I was expecting. That is, in the traditional sense. It is however quite challenging with ... read more
Holy shit, like wtaf omg
Standout: Farmer in the City
Favs: Tilt, Patriot, Face on breast, Manhattan, The Cockfighter, Bouncer see Bouncer
Least fav: Bolivia 95’
To go from luscious, warm and beautiful soundscapes decades ago to now this... perhaps there's always been more to Scott Walker than what his early years would've suggested.
SCOTT WALKER YOU SEXY SEXY MAN.
After 11 years of gap from his 1984 record "Climate of Hunter", we get "Tilt". This record is gorgeous, not just for its vocals but for its production. Walker pulls out some insane musique concrète sounds in tracks like "Bouncer See Bouncer..." and "The Cockfighter". It's unsettling and so damn ominous but it works really well. It's like over time of his life, Walker is moving towards a more experimental ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Farmer in the City 6:37 | 91 |
| 2 | The Cockfighter 6:01 | 89 |
| 3 | Bouncer See Bouncer... 8:46 | 85 |
| 4 | Manhattan 6:05 | 85 |
| 5 | Face on Breast 5:15 | 81 |
| 6 | Bolivia '95 7:44 | 85 |
| 7 | Patriot (A Single) 7:58 | 87 |
| 8 | Tilt 5:12 | 86 |
| 9 | Rosary 2:40 | 78 |
Total Length: 56 minutes
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2w
the second those strings got higher in Farmer in the City i felt chills shoot through my body in a way they havent in a long while
10mo
Bouncer See Bouncer feels like a repressed childhood memory of something unspeakable
