Tilt (Scott Walker album)

Tilt
Studio album by
Scott Walker
Released8 May 1995
StudioRAK Studios, Townhouse Studios
Genre
Length56:58
Label
ProducerScott Walker and Peter Walsh
Scott Walker chronology
Climate of Hunter
(1984) 		Tilt
(1995) 		Pola X soundtrack
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Chicago Tribune[5]
The Guardian[6]
Pitchfork8.6/10[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
Spin8/10[9]
Sputnikmusic[10]

Tilt is the twelfth solo studio album by the American/English singer-songwriter Scott Walker. It was released on 8 May 1995. It was Walker's first studio album in eleven years.

Walker composed most of the songs in 1991 and 1992, the exceptions being "Manhattan", which was written in 1987, and the final song "Rosary", which was composed in 1993. The album was recorded at RAK Studios and Townhouse Studios in the UK and its release had been expected as early as 1992[11] but was not completed until 1995. The album is the first of what Walker later called "kind of a trilogy" of albums that went on to include The Drift (2006) and Bish Bosch (2012).[12][13]

  1. ^ Murray, Noel (6 December 2012). "Navigating the diverse, difficult musical career of Scott Walker". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 13 August 2018. As for fans of the intense avant-garde exercises of Tilt and The Drift...
  2. ^ Dennis, Jon (5 March 2014). "10 of the best: Scott Walker". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 August 2018. Tilt (1995), the first of his trilogy of experimental albums
  3. ^ Pitchfork Staff (28 September 2022). "The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s". Pitchfork. Retrieved 26 April 2023. ...11 years after releasing the orchestral Climate of Hunter, Walker burst from the abyss with a disturbed industrial opera.
  4. ^ Thompson, Dave. "Tilt – Scott Walker". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  5. ^ Kot, Greg (24 October 1997). "Scott Walker: Tilt (Drag City)". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  6. ^ Sullivan, Caroline (5 May 1995). "Scott Walker: Tilt (Fontana)". The Guardian.
  7. ^ Monroe, Jazz (26 June 2022). "Scott Walker: Tilt". Pitchfork. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  8. ^ Kemp, Rob (16 October 1997). "Scott Walker: Tilt". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 29 June 2001. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  9. ^ Rotter, Jeffrey (October 1997). "Scott Walker: Tilt". Spin. Vol. 13, no. 7. pp. 142–143. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  10. ^ Med57. "Scott Walker- Tilt (album review 3)". Retrieved 7 July 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ Williams, Lewis (2006). Scott Walker - The Rhymes of Goodbye (1st ed.). London: Plexus. p. 161. ISBN 0-85965-395-1.
  12. ^ Hattenstone, Simon (23 November 2012). "Scott Walker: 'I was an intense young guy. I think I did temporarily go crazy'". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  13. ^ "Scott Walker Radio Interview for World Cafe 2013".