# The Best Record You’ve Never Heard: HMLTD races from Central Asian history to outer space for their avant-garde pick

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-best-record-youve-never-heard-hmltd-races-from-central-asian-history-to-outer-space-for-their-avant-garde-pick/
- Published: 2026-10-26T13:44:56+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T08:41:56+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/hmltd-asian-history-outer-space-for-their-avant-garde-pick/
- Topics: Asia, Entertainment, Music, Space, Technology, World

## Key points

- Henry Spychalski chose Scott Walker’s *Bish Bosch*.
- He admires its unusual use of silence.
- One song sends a historical character across time and space.

## Summary

HMLTD frontman Henry Spychalski named Scott Walker’s *Bish Bosch* as his choice for an overlooked record, praising its radical approach and lasting influence on his own work. He describes it as an ambitious, timeless album whose experimental scope stands apart from modern pop.

Spychalski singles out its use of silence and the song “SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)”. The song follows Zercon, a historical figure in Attila the Hun’s court, as he travels through history and physical space, including a spell as a flagpole sitter in 1920s America, in an attempt to escape cruelty.

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