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Scott Walker – Scott 4
This became my favourite Scott Walker record mainly because of ‘Rhymes Of Goodbye’. That song delivers the type of sadness that I love and romanticise. It’s a glorious sadness, something more akin to an overwhelming sense of sentimentality… a sadness that brings joy. Whenever I hear this song I time travel through so many moments of my past – relationships, friendships, hardships, youthful celebration, desperation – it makes me want to be drunk on wine and roll around on a cobblestone street. It evokes some sort of bohemian paradise for me, the feeling I had in my first years living in the city. It seems like a song that’s been with me my entire life even though it hasn’t. I suppose it’s the gamut of senses and emotions that it stirs up that make me feel like I’ve known it forever. I get very emotional when I hear it. I think it’s best listened to in autumn, when you’re not quite ready to say goodbye to summer but you have no choice, so you find a moment to embrace the change and revel in it. The entire record is beautiful of course, but that one track is so special to me.
