When Scott Walker returned in 1994 from one of his seemingly endless creative hibernations with Tilt, many longtime listeners looked for an experience akin to his dramatically elegant late 1960s masterpieces. Both the drama and elegance were there but Walker clearly delighted in upending expectations, with fragmented lyrics, eruptions of sudden cascades of noise and percussion and more pointing the way to his ever more experimental years that followed.

– Ned Raggett