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- Artist(s): Michael Gira, Norman Westberg, Christoph Hahn, Phil Puleo
- Summary: The second full-length studio release for the Michael Gira project includes the 32-minute title track and guest appearances by Akron/Family), Karen O, Alan Sparhawk, and Mimi Parker of Low
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- Record Label: Young God Records
- Genre(s): Post-Rock, Experimental Rock, Noise-Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 30 out of 32
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Mixed: 2 out of 32
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Negative: 0 out of 32
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Oct 11, 2012Swans has never traveled a straightforward, clean, or uninterrupted path. But with The Seer, one thing is certain: Even during its quietest lulls, Gira has never sounded louder.
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Aug 28, 2012The Seer is the culmination of Gira's 30-year-journey; his finest two hours, if you will.
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Aug 30, 2012This album redefines Swans by gathering the best of its past and re-centering the music on impulse and interplay, built with a preternatural sense of how long to let a section develop before moving on to the next idea
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Aug 28, 2012It's all willfully abrasive, unflinchingly depressing, occasionally tedious, and intermittently triumphant.
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Aug 30, 2012The Seer will definitely raise the band's profile, although its sheer intensity and ugliness may scare people away.
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Aug 28, 2012The key to The Seer's delicate noise-beauty contrast is its sense of direction. It's what keeps the album's three crazy-long epics (particularly the half-hour-long title-track) from fading into wallpaper or bleeding out from excess.
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Aug 28, 2012It's a bold and stark opus worthy of attention, if your attention span is long enough.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 22
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Mixed: 1 out of 22
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Negative: 2 out of 22
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Aug 30, 2012
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May 28, 2013
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Mar 12, 2014
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Nov 8, 2013
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Nov 28, 2021
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Dec 28, 2019Dark and gruesome introduction to Swans great rock trilogy. Not easily accessible but unquestionably brilliant.
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Jan 3, 2013
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