Til the Band Comes In

Performer: Scott Walker
Producer: Filippo Salvadori (Reissue)
Distributor: City Hall

Notes: Personnel includes: Scott Walker, Esther Ofarim. Includes liner notes by Alan Clayson. Personnel: Scott Walker (vocals). Audio Remasterer: Gary Hobish. Liner Note Authors: Alan Clayson; Ady Semel; Alec Palao. Director: Peter Knight. Scott Walker's first four albums are marvelously creepy collections of dark, avant-pop tunes with touches of cabaret and jazz, but he took a right turn on the fifth, 'TIL THE BAND COMES IN. In the main, it seems like Walker was trying to "go commercial," at least enough to appeal to Tony Bennett fans (at one point, Walker even seems to affect a distinct Bennett impersonation). Walker never walks a completely straight line, though, so there are some anomalies, like the Lee Hazlewood-esque, country/folk-inflected "Cowbells Shakin'." At the time, no one could have guessed that the experimental forays still ahead for Walker would make this album's predecessors sound like bubblegum pop.

Noel Scott Engel, better known as Scott Walker, was born in the US, but found fame in the UK as a member of the Walker Brothers, who became teen pop idols in England in the 1960s. After the group's demise, Walker's darker, artier side eventually came to the fore, and he began a quirky solo career that encompassed Jacques Brel covers, moody, saloon-singer crooning, and avant-garde tendencies. He became the quintessential cult figure, inscrutable and highly influential, though after the '70s his works were few and far between.

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