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Tracks II: The Lost Albums SONY

Celine Dion, a tree made of coat hangers, Crufts… Thirty years after the startling experiments of Tilt defined SCOTT WALKER ’ s latter-day career, his collaborators reveal all about the idiosyncratic working practices that took him from teen idol to avant-garde hero. “It was almost like a rejection of his past,” one eyewitness tells Rob Hughes. “Almost like anti-music.”

Close harmonies, smooth grooves, infighting and ‘the bag’: making an album on stage

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REISSUES | COMPS | BOXSETS | LOST RECORDINGS

With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.