allmusic review of The Drift

You'll have to read the entire article, this is the last paragraph, to get a sense of the kind of dialogue this album is generating. Some of it edging upon pretension, some of it quite good. I have listened to The Drift several times now, on headphones. There is a lot there to digest! Love it or hate it, he is brilliant.

allmusic ((( allmusic The Whole Note ))): "Walker's The Drift has literally nothing outside this moment to do with rock & roll. He treats it as another myth in his use of composers such as Morton Feldman, Iannis Xenakis,Giacinto Scelsi, and Luciano Berio. He undoes rock by playing it in the context of ruin, as something already gone, leaking from faulty memory. He can't duplicate it, so he plays a simulation of it (which is what Mick and Keith do in their own way, too; they can't remember really, because if they did, they'd never need to try to play 'Satisfaction' again). He offers no place to run, no place to hide, only absence, littered space, and the wandering around of unseeable beings and buildings across the landscape, lifting the whole thing to the level of Shakespearean tragedy. 'Jesse' is one of the strangest, most disturbing tracks I've ever encountered, on one of the most unclassifiable records ever to come down the pipe in the (dis)guise of rock. If anything, Walker has done something else here, given the discussion of The Drift: he's succeeded in creating such an album -- probably against his own desire -- by becoming more fiction than flesh, more mystique than human mystery. He's carved a place in the ever-shifting terrain of pop by becoming a living, albeit marginal, myth himself."