The Seer

Swans, “The Seer” (Young God, 2012)
Seminal NYC noise-rock unit (close colleagues of Sonic Youth when they were both starting out) returns with what has rightly been characterized as a summation of their entire career. Crunching sheets of distorto-guitar, thundering drums, bizarre-world Gregorian chants, and much more, integrated into a coherent whole. Towering, epic, wall of sound, sheer transcendent power – this is one of those rare works such words are truly meant for.
Try CD 1: 1, 4; CD 2: 2, 4.
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