Dark and frequently terrifying. One of the few albums I've listened to that manages to be consistently creepy while remaining enjoyably musical even through its most dissonant moments. Experiencing this album is the audio equivalent of wandering through Tulgey Woods in Disney's version of Alice in Wonderland. Bleak and confusing, but populated with colorful twisted creatures that provide a strange sense of relief just as you are about to give into despair.… Expand

Engrossing collection. Dark , grant and thought provoking. The album tells us a long story whose plot contains all factors that one drama needs to fulfil our dreams.

While some people may criticize it for invoking uncomfortable emotions inside them, or for being unmusical throughout, they haven't even listened through the whole album. Though before getting into my review, I must explain to those what music is ment for, as music is an expression, people don't make music so you can have fun and dance, no they make it to express themselves, or to tell a narrative. Music is an art form, and as art has shown us, not all art is cutesy and pretty, some art is made to invoke feelings of dread, sorrow, and fear, this album is just like that. While songs like Lunacy, The Apostate, and The Seer (Returns) are ment to invoke fear, disgust, and dread through their instrumentation, and lyrical content, A Song For A Warrior (vocals by Karen O) has beauty, but also feels sorrowful, like as if it were a funeral song. The best thing about this album as a whole are the instrumentations, which rely on repetition to catch you off guard when the song suddenly changes, or when a new layer of instrumentation is added, while Gira wouldn't be great for singing on this album, he's great for the mood of this album, he's utterly evil sounding and it's great. Though I want to back to some reviews of this album before this review is done, especially Rockman1976's (gave this album a 3 out of 10): I don't know, maybe it's just me, but music supposed to be fun to listen to. This album is depressing" Music is art, and in art we don't dislike stuff because it's depressing, or not happy and colourful, that's just Though on the other note, this album isn't for everyone, especially those who dislike repetition, highly cryptic lyrics, and some of the scariest songs you'll find, but if you are really open minded, give it a look! 10/10.… Expand

Undoubtedly my favorite album of the year thus far, The Seer is a fantastic work of art. The album oozes atmosphere from every aural pore; it's beautiful, introspective and yet soul-crushingly heavy all at once. Once The Seer gets you in its grip, it will not let you go. The payoff is more than worth the time and effort you have to put in to get into it. Incredible.

Swans' newest album The Seer is a epic record full of dark and ambient tunes that best represent the tone and feel, it makes the listener feel the dynamic sound on the tracks from the haunting acoustics of 'Song for a Warrior" with Karen O to it's dark and epic title track.

This is a masterpiece. I ve listened to the album 2 times and i cant wait to play it again and again. Noise is mixed with meditation turning into weird sounds. This is provocative material but suits so much for our times. Cant wait to clean my house listening to this album as the background.