The Drift
by Scott Walker
- Type: Album
- Released: 8 May 2006
- Label: 4AD
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:08:43
- Community rating: 3.9/5 from 9 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A terrifying, avant-garde masterpiece, 'The Drift' features Scott Walker's operatic baritone over blocks of silence and sudden, violent noise. The album uses unconventional percussion, including punching a side of pork. It is a dark, cinematic nightmare.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, experimental, orchestral, dissonant, long-form
Tracklist
- Cossacks Are (04:32)
- Clara (12:43)
- Jesse (06:28)
- Jolson and Jones (07:45)
- Cue (10:27)
- Hand Me Ups (05:49)
- Buzzers (06:39)
- Psoriatic (05:51)
- The Escape (05:18)
- A Lover Loves (03:11)
Credits
- Richard Nelson - contractor [orchestra]
- V23 - design
- Vaughan Oliver - design
- Chris Bigg - design [assistance]
- Negus-Fancey Company - management [scott walker management]
- Adam Nunn - mastered by
- Marc Atkins - photography by
- Scott Walker - producer, mixed by
- Peter Walsh - producer, mixed by, recorded by
- Adrian Hall - recorded by [additional assistant at metropolis]
- Dom Morley - recorded by [additional assistant at metropolis]
- Iain Gore - recorded by [additional assistant at metropolis]
- Neil Tucker - recorded by [additional assistant at metropolis]
- Nik Pugh - recorded by [additional assistant at metropolis]
- Richard Wilkinson - recorded by [additional assistant at metropolis]
- Rohan Onraet - recorded by [additional assistant at metropolis]
- Chris Barrett - recorded by [assistant at air studios]
- Matt Paul - recorded by [assistant at metropolis]
- Geoff Foster - recorded by [orchestra]
- Jim Kelly - technician [technical support at metropolis]
- Simon Saywood - technician [technical support at metropolis]