Album Rating: 5.0
Best Swans album (for me)
|
| |
Album Rating: 5.0
I take back the previous comment. Not so sure. Spent the last few days with the trilogy and really can’t come to any conclusive order for them. I love The Seer for its atmosphere; it’s dark and creeping and it weaves through the whole album. I think the cover art is actually quite an insight to the album. To Be Kind is the most varied of the 3 and the most energetic. There’s a real propulsion throughout, an abrasive tribalistic quality. The Glowing Man is just a smoother approach to that tribalistic sound - more deeply hypnotic. It has the least variation of the 3, the individual songs feel like part of one long piece. Maybe it has a tendency to drift which depending on your point of view is positive or negative. For me it’s definitely a positive and a real immersive experience. No matter what your order is, the trilogy works so well - each album offering something that is clearly linked, but with its own distinct personality.
|
| |
Album Rating: 5.0
Currently exercising some self control and not playing the released songs until the album is out next week.
|
| |
Album Rating: 5.0
So glad to see TGM receives the praise it deserves. I don’t really see the point in arguing about the order within the trilogy albums, all perfect in their own ways. I even can’t decide whether I like CD 1 or 2 better, it is always the one I’m listening to.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
Yeah, this is excellent
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
Jamming right now. Cloud Of Unknowing is a banger holY lord
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.0
Gotta say: Instrumentally this album is banging but Gira is feeling himself a little too much on here and his constant wailing on some of the tracks can get annoying and cheesy
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
Can now definitively say this is my fave of the trilogy. It is the least atmospheric of the bunch, but has a lot of exciting song ideas and hooks that stick in my head for weeks.
|
| |
Album Rating: 5.0
No wonder, it is an absolutely fantastic record. To me it also has the most atmosphere out of the trilogy, the first disc is super-coherent, dream-like.
|
| |
|
|
