Climate of Hunter

Climate of Hunter is Scott Walker’s eleventh studio album, released in March 1984. It followed a nearly ten-year gap in his solo career, foreshadowing an air of reclusiveness that would surround the artist leading into the next century.

The record peaked at #60 on the UK Albums Chart and received mixed reviews. In the 2006 David Bowie-produced documentary, Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, Walker described his unorthodox recording process for this project—and, specifically, why he wanted to keep the lyrics and melodies hidden from the session players:

I’d even keep things from [Peter Walsh] (the producer) until the end […] You know, somebody will pick up on a lyric or start joking about this, and then suddenly the song is in another place. It’s not in the concentrated place it should be […] It keeps everything a little more disjointed. There’s no chance of anyone swinging together too much, which is what I don’t want on anything. I’m not making groove records.