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''Climate of Hunter'' is the eleventh studio album by the American solo artist Scott Walker. It was released in March 1984 and reached number 60〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Chart Stats - Scott Walker )〕 on the UK Albums Chart. It includes the single "Track Three". It was his only album of the 1980s. Walker wrote the songs for the album between August and September 1983. The album was recorded between October and December 1983 in the UK at The Town House, EMI and Sarm West Studios. The album was released as an LP in March 1984, receiving positive reviews. It was released on CD in the mid-1980s, and reissued on CD in January 2006, with revised artwork and having been remastered. The original artwork for the album was designed by C.More.Tone, with photography by Bob Carlos Clarke. ==Background== Following the poor reception of Walker's tenth solo album, 1974's ''We Had It All'', Walker reformed The Walker Brothers and signed to GTO Records. The reunited group recorded three albums together, 1975's ''No Regrets'', 1976's ''Lines'' and 1978's ''Nite Flights''. ''No Regrets'' and ''Lines'' had continued the musical vein of MOR County Pop cover versions that Walker had followed on his previous two solo albums. The title track, ''No Regrets'', had become a hit single in early 1976, but critically and commercially both albums were unsuccessful. The group began recording ''Nite Flights'' knowing that GTO was soon to collapse. The decision was made to produce an album of their own compositions without compromise. The resulting album emphasised an art rock and disco sound utilising harder drum sounds, synthesizers, and electric guitars. The three group members each wrote and sang their own compositions. Scott's four songs – "Shut Out", "Fat Mama Kick", "Nite Flights", and "The Electrician" – were his first original compositions since 1970's '''Til the Band Comes In''. Walker's song-writing displayed remarkable growth from his 1960s work and had more in common with the music of David Bowie, Brian Eno and Lou Reed. The extremely dark and discomforting sound of Scott's songs, particularly "The Electrician", was to prove a forerunner to the direction of his future solo work. ''Nite Flights'' was released in 1978 to poor sales figures but warm critical opinion, especially Scott's contributions. In the period after the album Walker was without a record deal, and remarked in an interview with the journalist Alan Bangs that he had lived on "not a lot" between ''Nite Flights'' and ''Climate of Hunter''. Walker compared himself to Orson Welles, a great man everyone wants to meet, but for whom nobody will finance their next project. Out of his now good critical standing a trio of compilations was released in the early 1980s and a long term deal with Virgin Records was made. Ardent fan Julian Cope assembled a collection of Walker originals titled ''Fire Escape in the Sky: The Godlike Genius of Scott Walker'' in 1981, quickly followed by ''Scott Walker Sings Jacques Brel'' and ''The Best of Scott Walker''. In spite of signing a new deal, Walker was slow to begin writing his first album for the label. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Climate of Hunter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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