Out August 27 http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/29/new-swans-album-to-feature-karen-o/
To feature Ben Frost + Jarboe
Nice, I’m excited about this one.
Nice!
I saw Swans and Ben Frost last year and they were great!
Ben Frost has a song called “We Love you Michael Gira”, maybe he was touched by that and invited him to play in the album eheheh
And I found out just now that Michael Gira is about to start a concert in my town… damn it! I thought it would be Friday
Out August 27 http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/29/new-swans-album-to-feature-karen-o/
To feature Ben Frost + Jarboe
Oh man…that cover is AWESOME!!!
I pray to the lord that Swans roll trough town again touring this thing.
Really psyched for this. Swans are becoming more of an influence.
I thought it was supposed to be a double album.
I think it is a double album. The songs are probably pretty long. It says on the site that it’s a double disc. So they may possibly be separated by discs. I saw somewhere that it’s about two hours of music.
Surprised to see Jarboe is back doing a little material…
I like her a lot but I’m glad she’s not officially in the full fold, her solo stuff vs Gira’s Swans could use the distance…
I’m fucking wrapt to hear Jarboe’s back working with them… to some extent.
Although, the more I’ve been listening to their back catalogue, I sort of wish they’d do a bit more of the fucked grind shit they did back in the day. Just a little bit.
I thought it was supposed to be a double album.
Actually if you buy vinyl it’s a TRIPLE album!!!
I’m fucking wrapt to hear Jarboe’s back working with them… to some extent.
Although, the more I’ve been listening to their back catalogue, I sort of wish they’d do a bit more of the fucked grind shit they did back in the day. Just a little bit.
Seems like Gira’s in a different headspace these days. Or surely he would have killed himself by now…lol
Didn’t sound like that stuff was coming from a “happy place”…
Aside from being a naturally dark person, he was a heavy alcoholic for a long time (see “Alcohol Is The Seed”, “You See Through Me”. That kind of lifestyle compared with that kind of mind will eat a man up.
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Killer cover. Been meaning to dig these guys, too.
Aside from being a naturally dark person, he was a heavy alcoholic for a long time (see “Alcohol Is The Seed”, “You See Through Me”. That kind of lifestyle compared with that kind of mind will eat a man up.
Just read The Consumer if you want to find out just how dark…
Yeah, The Consumer is some fucked up shit right there.
Too bad he wrote it in all caps.
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Yes. Oh Mama yes!!
Awesome…thx.
[reply]I’m fucking wrapt to hear Jarboe’s back working with them… to some extent.
Although, the more I’ve been listening to their back catalogue, I sort of wish they’d do a bit more of the fucked grind shit they did back in the day. Just a little bit.
Seems like Gira’s in a different headspace these days. Or surely he would have killed himself by now…lol
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This is true…
I guess I’m sort of hoping there’ll be some other bright young things to take the torch, so to speak. And grind grind grind away.
But kids are pussies these days. They should all be sent to reformatory school and given something to really complain about.
Then they’d make good music. Really good shit.
holy shit, the new stuff (that link at least) is currently impressing me far more than the last (new) album. like!
Someone from another forum sent in a review (of sorts):
Thought some folks would be interested in this, I heard a preview copy the other day. Couldn’t see an existing thread but apologies if there is one, please merge etc.
First impressions only, as I’ve only listened to it once so far and was a little bit high at the time.
Well, it’s about two hours long for starters - the title track is about 30 mins alone and fucking epic in that monolithic clanging fashion that Swans are so good at. There’s a couple of others in the same style of similiar length. Jarboe does vocals on two tracks, on ‘A Piece of Sky’ there’s a beautiful vocal collage by her but she’s not really prominent on the other one, feels a bit token.
Few other guest vocals, the couple from Low do a good job but didn’t really like the song with Karen O (‘Song of the Warrior’, if I remember correctly) - not a fan anyway but she really doesn’t suit Michael Gira’s lyrics, presuming of course that he wrote them!
Overall, pretty damn good. I seem to remember Gira saying that he wanted to do a non-vocal record and it is quite light on vocals generally, there’s a lot of instrumental space on it. Bizarrely (or not, maybe) there are two points on it where they really sound like Can, complete with Mooney/Suzuki style gibbering!
Favourite track - probably the closer, ‘The Apostate’. Heavy fucking shit.
If I have any criticism of it, apart from the Karen O track, it would be that they’re still leaning a little bit towards Angels of Light territory, a minor criticism only. It’s just that when I listen to Angels I hear a great band but when I listen to pre-reformation Swans, I hear an entity rather than merely a band and wished the The Seer was a little more entity-ish sounding, if that makes sense? Probably only in my head.
I, for one, cannot FUCKING wait!!!