Reception Wikipedia is just run by corporate marketers because the sites it plagiarises from are used for the same purpose Pah who ever looks at Metacritic Only those who can not make an opinion of their own Like any intelligent person needs a professional BS merchant to form the words for them Really which record company PR person added the reception section Positively received By who the mentally impaired The Album is an utter work of shite A visit to Google will yield many reviews not on Metacritic of Scott Walker s Bish Bosch Some representative comments are The first time I heard Bish Bosch I never wanted to hear it again who wants to buy an album you can hardly bear to listen to The first thing you hear is 30 seconds of drums that aren t so much being pounded as punished overlaid with a kind of electronic shriek And this is one of the more approachable moments on Bish Bosch Bish Bosch is sick with corporeal disgust and philosophical disquiet Walker has always protested that people miss the humour in his work in fairness that s perhaps an inevitable consequence of writing songs about existential despair Nicolae Ceausescu illness and disgust at the human body listening to Bish Bosch is a bruising draining experience There s something repellently fascinating about Scott Walker s notion of music these days At the center of it all is an old man wailing about cutting off his own balls and feeding them to someone And boy has Walker really bitched it this time nine new astounding abominations nine new non songs bastards all hymns without harmony sheer discordia and lyrically nothing but beasts buggeries and decapitations furious assault of dystopian instrumentation To be fair here are a couple of the rather fewer positive sic comments I started listening to this album with a mild amusement but kept returning to it to be both terrified and impressed in equal measure It might not encourage repeat plays but to dismiss it as a racket is to do it and its maker a huge disservice