Nice rev DKF. Pos (in spirit).
After a few more listens over the weekend, my feelings are generally the same: I like this substantially more than both leaving meaning and The Beggar—I think it's more consistent, more unified in tone, and generally less enervating despite its length.
On the other hand, it still pales in comparison to all three of The Seer, To Be Kind. and The Glowing Man, and continues to feel like they're straining reaching for a bit of that past glory instead of switching their sound up and trying something totally new (which is honestly where they've had the most success over the last four decades). A record like this would've felt more avant-garde and experimental in 2010. These days? (Especially in this discography?) Reheated leftovers.
And to be fair, these are leftovers of an expensive, exquisite, once-in-a-lifetime three Michelin star meal that still taste pretty goddamn great the second day. But shoveling them in your face out of a Styrofoam box over your kitchen sink doesn't replicate the feeling of being in that no-jeans-allowed, dimly lit restaurant with exotic fish swimming in the walls and a dedicate sommelier for each table, y'know?
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Album Rating: 4.2
This more a Le Bernardin in the current day vs 2010 situation imo these ain't leftovers but it's the same ingredients so the meal isn't as paradigm shattering
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Not the point but uh what classy restaurant has fish in the walls
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Rainforest Cafe
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
Obviously the classiest of restaurants
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
Album's decent. I spoke about this before in other Swans threads, but I think this sort of drone rock tends to lose me when there's just as much empty space in between the big moments. The Merge is incredible though, that intro jumpscared me so badly
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Would do evil sexy things to hear The Healers live.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
The hourlong version of the healers (was still the beggar then) they played on the last tour was fuckin monumental
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This is better than their last two?
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Album Rating: 4.0
Didn’t know this was coming out, gonna eat some mushrooms and try to meet god
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
It’s vastly better than the last two, and I loved them both
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Album Rating: 4.0
You're assessment of The Beggar is just flat out dumb and it continues on with your comparison to the Seer. Did you even listen to this album?
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Album Rating: 4.2
I am assessment of The Beggar as a wheezy plot-loss is debatable but also true
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Album Rating: 4.0
Apologies, I just reread your review and I will admit I'm a huge Swans fan and may have taken a little offense to the general assessment. Can't say I've never done this to albums before. Coming back to albums years later sheds them in new light.
This is definitely another awesome entry into Swans discog but time will tell/ reveal.
Cheers!
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Album Rating: 4.2
Woo! Hatchet buried!
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Im not sure if Swans album covers are brilliant or trivial
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Album Rating: 4.5
I didn’t realize it was dirt on the cover until I got the CD. Prob some symbolism there with birth and death (return to dirt)
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Good stuff but Swans/Gira have always been one of those artists where a huge constituent of audiences think the sun shines out of their ass and they can do no wrong, like admiring an item accidentally left behind at an art gallery as some avant garde piece
Lil ugly mane comes to mind as well
They're some of my favorite artists but you just know that anything they drop is going to get at least a 3.5 regardless of what it sounds like
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Album Rating: 4.5
Is Tundra a troll?
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Album Rating: 4.5
2 full listens now, it's a very special album
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