After he stopped making hit singles, Scott Walker turned to more personal, if less popular, songwriting. "Brando", a collaboration with metal antiheroes Sunn O))), is an anxious, humming ode to cinematic S&M. Written for a Christmas comedy, "Man from Reno" is MOR taken to a depressing extreme. And the 10-minute "Epizootics!" confronts and confuses with horn fanfares, a Hawaiian ukulele and operatic exclamations.