Saturday, December 22, 2012

#669 Swans - The Seer

BIG. Here's an album that goes for it in every way there is to go for it, in terms of album length, in terms of song length, in terms of volume, in terms of volume changes, in terms of hugeness of sound, in terms of massiveness of thematic heft - large in every dimension there is.

Along the way there's artfulness in texture and sound and structure, but the entire thing is such an enormous, crushing monolith its hard to even take in, petroglyphically defiant of the scale of your perspective.

That makes for quite an achievement, only modest fun, curiously compelling, but work-y to engage with 3.5/5

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