Scott Wilson is Professor of Media and Psychoanalysis at Kingston University, UK. He is the author of Stop Making Sense: Music from the Perspective of the Real (2015) and the editor of Melancology: Black Metal Theory and Ecology (2014).

Scott Wilson's theoretical proclivities are so well adapted to the task of elucidating the existential predicaments and unconventional passages of Scott Walker's career that the bleakness, futility and misery-beyond-pleasure that preoccupied the singer reveal even more nuanced shadow-play under his critical scrutiny. This uncompromising study brings Walker's fascination with torture, fascism, narcissism, anguish and loneliness to an enigmatic climax in the realization that each of us is singularly one-all-alone, existing in disharmony and destitution, forever out of tune in a world of post-couples.

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Scott Wilson is Professor of Media and Psychoanalysis at Kingston University, UK. He is the author of Stop Making Sense: Music from the Perspective of the Real (2015) and the editor of Melancology: Black Metal Theory and Ecology (2014).

Scott Wilson's theoretical proclivities are so well adapted to the task of elucidating the existential predicaments and unconventional passages of Scott Walker's career that the bleakness, futility and misery-beyond-pleasure that preoccupied the singer reveal even more nuanced shadow-play under his critical scrutiny. This uncompromising study brings Walker's fascination with torture, fascism, narcissism, anguish and loneliness to an enigmatic climax in the realization that each of us is singularly one-all-alone, existing in disharmony and destitution, forever out of tune in a world of post-couples.

• Introduction1 Zero2 One-missing3 One4 Swarm5 One-all-aloneNotesReferencesDiscography Index

Scott Wilson is Professor of Media and Psychoanalysis at Kingston University, UK. He is the author of Stop Making Sense: Music from the Perspective of the Real (2015) and the editor of Melancology: Black Metal Theory and Ecology (2014).

Scott Wilson's theoretical proclivities are so well adapted to the task of elucidating the existential predicaments and unconventional passages of Scott Walker's career that the bleakness, futility and misery-beyond-pleasure that preoccupied the singer reveal even more nuanced shadow-play under his critical scrutiny. This uncompromising study brings Walker's fascination with torture, fascism, narcissism, anguish and loneliness to an enigmatic climax in the realization that each of us is singularly one-all-alone, existing in disharmony and destitution, forever out of tune in a world of post-couples.

• Introduction1 Zero2 One-missing3 One4 Swarm5 One-all-aloneNotesReferencesDiscography Index