Album Rating: 4.0
"Those mammoth songs feel so insubstantial, and the second song on the first disc is downright atrocious."
Nah that songs pretty good
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AOTY
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best band ever
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This thread is lunacy lunacy lunacy lunacy lunacy
Digging: Twin Shadow - Confess
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I've avoided this for a while now. I don't think I'll like it that much.
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I might have to try this, but I usually don't have the patience for massive opuses like this...
Great review though Sowing.
Digging: Owel - Owel
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"For those of us that consume music like it's water"
I love it.
Digging: The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation
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Nothing about this album is engaging.
At all.
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This thing is amazing. The opening track blows my mind.
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Album Rating: 4.5
For me, the best songs are The Seer Returns, 93 Ave B. Blues and Song For A Warrior.
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Album Rating: 5.0
"The suspense...
What was Cyanade1 going to say?"
what is the point of this?
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This is my first Swans album. What have I been missing? I want this now!
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
This album is at least on par with Soundtracks for the Blind for me. It isn't as claustrophobic and downright oppressive (adjectives that i see as positive with Swans) but it is just as intense and more accomplished musically. As one reviewer wrote of Eden Prison, " the sound of the Swans represents a brutish classical music. It's not the loud arrogance and directionless rebellion of punk but a focused, emotional composition." Brutish classical is a great descriptor for this album especially. Huge pieces that morph and change with an attention to composition not shown by any band this heavy. Gira is one of the great songwriters of our time, thank god he brought Swans back.
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I'm trying to find the talk Michael Gira did with Tom Fleming (Wild beasts) I'd really like to read that.
jjwitt, does Gira actually write songs? I mean, would you call what he does a songwriter or a composer? =P
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Gira is the bandleader. He is in charge of everything. He comes up with the songs main idea on
acoustic (the acoustic demos are so strange to hear after this) and gets all his trusted peeps
together and he gets them to help him form his BIG vision.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Steo, maybe composer would be a better title considering the way I've heard their live sets work, not following the album verbatim but changing according to Gira's direction. I'll see in September 
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Yeah but it's certainly untraditional song writing to say the least.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I've listened to this so much. I love this record, except for parts of "The Seer" song. After the first big climax, the song at roughly 13 min goes into drone music mode, and I am bored after 2 minutes of this. Solid review
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It's so frickin' long though. I mean, I have jazz albums I thought were a little ridiculous in length but two hours?
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Album Rating: 4.0
"It's so frickin' long though"
the hell.. i combine this and soundtracks to create one album. now thats an experience.
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