pig bodine wrote:Walker's recent material is beyond horrible.
I like a lot of it. The four songs he wrote for
Nite Flights are terrific, especially the title track and
The Electrician. The latter song contains the blueprints for almost all of what he's done since (especially
Tilt), whilst also giving a nod back to the lush orchestration of The Walker Brothers and the chilly existentialism of his classic solo records.
I think
Climate of Hunter is a good album, marred a little by 80s production.
Tilt is one of the key albums of the 90s, and would probably vie with
Scott 4 as my favourite of his albums. Sure it takes a fair bit of effort to get into, and sounds forbidding at first, but there is music of real merit and rare artistic vision going on there.
Pola X and
And Who Shall Go To The Dance... are more like ominous ambient music than anything else, and probably shouldn't be compared to what you might call his albums proper.
I see
The Drift and
Bish Bosch more as pieces where you listen to the performance as a drama, like a play, rather than as music, and I think they work well like that, especially
The Drift.