Bish Bosch
by Scott Walker
  • Record Label: 4AD
  • Release Date: Dec 4, 2012
User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 32 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 32
  3. Negative: 6 out of 32
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  1. Muddsjr
    Jan 27, 2014
    5
    it's odd, I'l give you that. And horrendously difficult to listen to at the best of times, and sometimes, in the nicest way possible, a little humorous, for the odd and random lyrics and... um, noises, particularly on track 2. And alot of the tracks on this album go on a little too long than they should really, but I am not counting out that at times, Bisch Bosch can be an entertainingit's odd, I'l give you that. And horrendously difficult to listen to at the best of times, and sometimes, in the nicest way possible, a little humorous, for the odd and random lyrics and... um, noises, particularly on track 2. And alot of the tracks on this album go on a little too long than they should really, but I am not counting out that at times, Bisch Bosch can be an entertaining listen, and a pleasing one as well. But Bisch Bosch is unfortunately a bit of an unnecessary album.… Expand

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 33 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 33
  3. Negative: 2 out of 33
  1. New Musical Express (NME)
    Jan 15, 2013
    30
    How anyone outside the walls of a mental asylum could genuinely enjoy the annoyingly repetitive industrial drum-throbs, aimless experimento-guitar crunches and lyrics about "reeking gonads" that characterise songs called things like 'Epizootics!' is beyond me.
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  2. Sputnikmusic
    Jan 2, 2013
    70
    Bish Bosch is as much about challenging the people that absorbed and accepted Tilt and The Drift as it is challenging the rest of the world--and while that makes it consistent with all his work since Nite Flights, each subsequent album giving his fan base another hurdle to overcome, it also gives it a thrill that's unique to both his discography and the majority of the music you could compare it to. If, indeed, there is any.
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  3. No Ripcord
    Dec 20, 2012
    80
    Bish Bosch is a wilder, more scattered (and scatty, in the case of Epizootics!, ten minutes of sax-driven jazz which could almost be seen as accessible, if it wasn't so dark and threatening) work than its immediate predecessors.
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