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.

Album Rating: 4.5

Did Swans just drop surprise drop something? I see something new on Spotify.

Album Rating: 5.0

That’s some bogus stuff, seems to be a glitch in their algorithm.

Album Rating: 4.5

Hmm just checking

Album Rating: 3.0

Saw that too and was really excited until I listened.

Album Rating: 4.0

Saw them touring this and it was it was a physical gauntlet to get through it. As great as the material already is, it's so much better live.

Album Rating: 4.0

Tbh I think the juice started to run out here

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah, I haven't gotten through the two newest yet, they were just super long and not really grabbing me. I still feel like the band can have good music in them though. They've invented and reinvented themselves so many times.

Album Rating: 4.0

i saw them on this tour too. it was an incredible show, and one of the loudest ive ever seen

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah, I saw them touring this and the sound was overwhelming in the best way possible.

Album Rating: 5.0

I only saw the tours pre-Seer and pre-TBK, and while the former was probably the best gig I’ve ever been to (with ringing ears for days so it’d stay with me for longer), the latter was quite messy. It would’ve been great to hear the tracks from this live also, both The Gate and Deliquescence are amazing, my favorite post-reunion live releases. Nothing beats Swans Are Dead tho.

Album Rating: 4.5

Music to cease existing to