Scott Walker and Sunn O))) reveal details of collaboration album, Soused

Scott Walker and Sunn O))) have confirmed details of their surprise, genre-busting collaboration. The British singer and the American drone metal band have teamed up for a complete, 50-minute album, due out with 4AD on 22 September.

The album will be called Soused and will include five tracks, with heavy titles like Fetish, Brando and Herod 2014. Walker produced the album himself, with long-time collaborator Peter Walsh. As on his 2012 LP Bish Bosch, there are orchestrations by musical director Mark Warman.

According to a press release, Sunn O))) first approached Walker about five years ago, during the making of 2013’s Monoliths & Dimensions. Walker didn’t want to guest on Sunn O)))’s LP but in 2013, after a long silence, he got back in touch to say that he had written material specifically with Sunn O))) in mind. They met in studio earlier this year.

While Sunn O))) haven’t recorded their own studio album since Monoliths & Dimensions, they have released collaborations with Boris, Nurse With Wound and Ulver. Walker, meanwhile, seems more prolific than he has been in decades. Prior to Soused, he had released only five albums in four decades; this will be the 71-year-old’s second LP in less than three years.

Source: The Guardian