THE DRIFT - ALBUM PRESS
First major article in the American press - FILTER MAGAZINE
5 Stars from Observer Music Monthly
Anthony Reynold’s excellent review is
and from on his livejournal blog. (“All is strangeness! Spring dies screaming! Art is reborn!”)
Trouse Press’ comprehensive overview of Scott’s career, now with a review of .
New York Magazine reviews The Drift
Australia weighs in on the Drift in The Age
The full WIRE interview transcript
Five more stars…
Sydney Morning Herald review and .
Brian Turner of WFMU (”The freeform radiostation of the nation!”)Scott and offers his here.
HOT PRESS magazine from Ireland…9 out of 10! “The best mysteries come in triads, like the Sibyl’s three visits to king Tarquin and the three prophetic books he ended up with…”
9 out of 10 from . “Even at its most dissonant and abstract, this record is human to the core.”
“a work of staggering emotional sentiment and complexity” says .
“Antonin Artaud would have approved.” posits Brainwashed.com
“It could just as well exist in any other medium—say, as a wall-size painting or a dense experimental film.” says Tim Kinsella of
Scott talks to .
The New York Times review.
Wisely categorizing it under Alternative/Punk (we heard some hapless record store had filed a copy under ‘Easy Listening”!),eMusic Magazine calls it “the richest and most rewarding music of Walker’s long, strange career.”
“Like Wagner, Walker faces charges of pretentiousness and grandiosity. But I think that to be truly pretentious or grandiose requires condescension. Walker never condescends.” says Sam Jack at
And is the BBC online review with reader commentary.
, Oxford University’s student newspaper.
From the streets of Galway…a capsule review from the .
Andy Battaglia gives the Drift an A- (oh come on, only an A-!?)
Interview and analysis from : “What separates him from the crowd is his disregard for limits.”
“it’s like the One Ring that ruled them all” contends David Murphy at .
Even puts in its two cents - “brave and uncompromising. It’s also weird.”
The detailed and in-depth by Thom Jureck: “one of the most unclassifiable records ever to come down the pipe in the (dis)guise of rock.” And the Allmusic .
“The Drift—in all its nightmarish, bloody glory—is as bold and profound a comment on our times as has emerged so far this century.” says .
shouts: “ It could pass for some bizarre record beamed in from a future in which all other music has been forgotten.”
Peter Wing reporting for finds a “shambolic brilliance.”
thinks “it’s perversely worth it.”
File under “exotic” and “high concept” says the .
“Genius? Yes. Godlike? Ditto.” asserts the .
“Yes there are people in the world who do not love Scott Walker, but what must their hearts be like?” Stuart Maconie, NME
“an absurdly pretentious album” says Jess Harvell in .
decides it is “the least funny Scott Walker album ever made”.
“rudderless” , claims some reviewer at Seattle’s .
The Drift gives David Dunlap Jr at Washington City Papaer a
