Scott Walker's 2006 album The Drift is an unsettling listen

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Writing for The Verge, the author argues that Scott Walker's 2006 album The Drift stands out among Halloween-season music as genuinely frightening. The record explores death, disease, and tragedy from concrete rather than abstract angles. Its songs include vivid depictions of the hanging of Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci. Walker also addresses the September 11 attacks, his stillborn twin brother, and the Srebrenica genocide. The author describes the album as exceptionally dark in its lyrics.

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