As stereogum reports, they have recently received some actual details about Scott Walker and Sunn O)))’s upcoming album Soused, but there hasn’t been any actual music from the release. That changed yesterday with a new trailer that teases about two minutes of music. At first it sounds exactly how you’d expect. There’s Sunn-style guitar drone rumbling to introduce Walker’s baritone murmuring in what sounds like Latin, but may just be some warped appropriation of it. There’s strange imagery that reminds me of the black muck in Under The Skin before settling on the blurry image of an open hand. Then gradually you realize the hand is making a fist, and after that moment all hell breaks loose. Drums explode into the picture, guitars start riffing, and Walker shouting and screaming with an immediacy that you got in the fiercest moments of his 2012 album Bish Bosch. It doesn’t exactly sound like Sunn O))) or what we’ve heard yet from Walker, but it does sound incredible. The bad news is the album’s release date has been pushed back from 9/23 to 10/21. And the really bad news is that the dull politics of GEMA (a highly dubious corporation representing a totally wrong dichotomy of „serious“ and „light, entertaining“ music (jazz, pop, folk, gosh, bullshit thinking relying on old academic traditions and hierarchies that belong in the garbage can – and you now know in which areas the big money flows!) prevents German listeners from being able to look at the youtube-trailer. Thank you, GEMA, for such counter-productive activities!
Is there anybody who knows how we can post the trailer without being blocked by these enemies of decent promotion? (source: stereogum & manafonistas)