Swans - The Seer

SilverScreen

Their new double album is officially released on August 28th. I must say the album art is fucking amazing. Here's a little taster of what to expect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4mQxGXxU2M

amokrecordings

Zero1986 wrote: »

Their new double album is officially released on August 28th. I must say the album art is fucking amazing. Here's a little taster of what to expect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4mQxGXxU2M

The art and the music are ****ing amazing!!!!

I just got tickets to see them in Toronto in October and it's going to blow my mind!!!

cranks

Got to listen to this on Soundcloud tonight.
http://soundcloud.com/search?q%5Bfulltext%5D=swans+seer

Hard going. However, I must say that the track sound-stamps (?if that's the right term) for track 3 'the wolf' and track 5 ' the seer returns' are pretty impressive to look at.

Sagi

Did not really have the time to really listen to the songs, but it sounded pretty impressive on the first run.

Saw them live in Vienna last year, one of the best concerts I've been to.

Dizraeligears

Never really listened to Swans before,but now totally hooked.Nice one Zero
You gotta love them upbeat feelgood choons!!

SilverScreen

Dizraeligears wrote: »

Never really listened to Swans before,but now totally hooked.Nice one Zero
You gotta love them upbeat feelgood choons!!

Yeah you can't beat the upbeat feelgood choons

It's probably not the best Swans album to start off with though. Children Of God (1987) is probably the best starting point, if you want more experimental stuff you can move on to their later albums, if you want heavier and more intense stuff you can move on to their earlier albums. But The Seer is definitely one of the best albums of the year for me.

xerces

I don't know how well-known this is, but Swans are playing The Button Factory (Dublin) and Cyprus Avenue (Cork) in August.

Tickets 25.50 and 28 respectively, got mine for The Button Factory.

http://tickets.ie/events.aspx/search?s=swans

Sagi

Absolutely looking forward to seeing them in Cork, I saw them two years ago in Vienna and have to say that it was one of the best concerts i've been to, very intense the kind of show where you can't even be bothered to get a beer from the bar because the music is just too good to do anything else

Sagi

That was a brilliant concert yesterday, there are not many bands that have such an intense tage prsence.

Gonzovision

New album out now. Streaming on spotify. I've only had a chance to give the first 2 tracks a listen, but looking forward to checking it out.

daUbiq

Indeed, the new Swans album is awesome! Interesting documentary on Pitchfork video called The Seer.

Arghus

Have the new one on in the background as I type this. Even though I've been listening to it for the past week I'm still not sure what to make of it because of the sheer size of it. First impressions are it doesn't seem as dark an album as The Seer. Though having said that, by any standards it's a pretty dark listen there's just a few more moments of light and the odd redemptive lyric.
It does seem to reveal a bit more each time so maybe in a month I'll look back and think I was miles off the mark.

Earthmoving

I'm liking the increased drone elements in the new album. There also seems to be more of an (albeit twisted) blues influence than before, or maybe I'm imagining it.