by
Swans
- Record Label: Young God Records
- Release Date: Sep 21, 2010
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Kerrang!Oct 25, 2010It's an album that draws on blues and gospel alongside atmospheric art-rock to end up somewhere intriguing, unnerving and frequently overwhelming. [16 Oct 2010, p.52]
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If David Browne's Sonic Youth bio was to be believed, Swans, who emerged from the same noise-filled no wave scene in New York's early 80s as Thurston Moore, had a rotating cast of nasty-tempered psychotic rockers, with multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira at its centre. Listening to Swans' new album, the first in 14 years, you get the sense that some of that malevolence remains.
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Q MagazineMy Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky isn't all cranium-crushing bleakness, just mostly. [Nov 2010, p.116]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 35 out of 38
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Mixed: 3 out of 38
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Negative: 0 out of 38
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