# @thefader on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DKcvP3gzxVu
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/31272467-thefader-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-03T18:40:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

## Caption

No one ever has or ever will do it quite like Scott Walker. ⁠
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“SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)” tells a fictional tale of the final minutes in the life of the historical figure Zercon, a diminutive jester in the court of Attila the Hun. Delivered mostly in the first person, the track begins with an atonal a capella full of profane insults. “If shit were music / La da da, la da da / You’d be a brass band,” Scott-as-Zercon sings. ⁠
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Then a doomsday guitar note sounds, and he begins to spout a mix of erudite mythological references and bathroom wall jokes, including phone numbers read in Roman numerals. He sings of a botched circumcision, a “wormy anus,” severed “reeking gonads” fed to a “shrunken face,” and a Roman “who’s proof that Greeks fucked bears.” We’re only halfway through. Later, Zercon climbs a pole, and the rest of the story is told from his rising perspective. When he reaches the top, lightyears from Earth, he realizes he’s a goner. “It’s so cold! Infrared!” he moans. “What if I freeze and drop into the darkness?”⁠
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Read hamiltonmixtape's latest installment of Apollo Frequencies, a series exploring sounds that seem to come from another world, at the link in bio.⁠
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📸 Jamie Hawekesworth via 4AD⁠
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#ScottWalker

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