More Scott Walker: Nite Flights

This is the title track for the Walker Brothers' last LP, Nite Flights. If, back in the day, you were to hear this song on the radio, you might be forgiven for mistaking this track for a David Bowie recording. Fun fact: David Bowie would cover this song 15 years later. The first half of the Nite Flights LP is strictly Scott Walker-written songs, in which he also is the lead vocalist. This is the LP that marks Scott's explicit shift from fairly mainstream pop to increasingly experimental and challenging recordings. 

Although the second half of the LP is a bit less intense than Scott's half, the LP makes for a very cohesive listen, and one bearing repeated listening. There are always bound to be recording artists and LPs that just don't quite catch on. This is one of those LPs, and the Walker Brothers had already had their moment in the spotlight a decade prior. Most of the tracks on this album could have charted, with the right promotion. I believe the record company they were recording for was just about to implode, so I doubt the promotion budget was there to begin with. The music world had moved on. So were the Walkers, especially Scott.

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