Scott 4 is a fantastic album; chamber pop doesn't get much better than it (in my opinion of course). It's a completely different kind of quality to his later stuff. With his later stuff I think for the last 30-odd years the guy's more or less accepted that whatever he releases is basically doomed for the commercial void so he just does whatever the f*ck he wants in the studio on an indie label.
That's what I love about his later stuff - for that kind of attitude to writing and recording, whatever Walker has released solo or might come up with in future is almost guaranteed to be forward-thinking and experimental at the very least.
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