Swans "Avatar" ("The Seer" Full Album Part 9) 

That's why it's so perfect. We waited for so long in tension, with such beautiful sounds and words preparing us for the chaos that the short ending has. What a way to give us goosebumps, what a way to prepare us for climax. Definitely Swans sounds perfect in the 8 to 15 minutes mark.

Bro, it's really good running music too. Jogging through an unlit bike track through the darkness listening to this song is something else.

Nah it’s good but piece of the sky lunacy and mother of the world are way better imo

@@oscarh5439 understandable

@@oscarh5439 Why is better?

7:35 is a bit better for anyone that just wants to listen to that part

It's like a boss fight music

Ye ahah sounds like boss battle themes from Final Fantasy

Esteban Rodriguez With any other band, I’d say this comment is a bit much, but with SWANS, it’s justified.

You like it then?!

On that note (at least it sounds like the same note to me), this song has given me a new appreciation for meaninglessness. Not because the song is meaningless of course, but this song made me really understand in my heart just how subjective our experience and understanding of existence is. Things mean things to us but that doesn't mean they actually mean anything. There are cosmic truths that would be meaningless to us because we wouldn't be able to contextualize them even if they were right in front of our noses. We look at static on the tv and think, "oh this means nothing its random nonsense," but that static is obviously not just what we make of it. The album art also helped me understand this because it is so emotionally gripping and that's just because we can make sense of the imagery based on the context of our lives and on the context of past human experience that has made it's way into our DNA and become a part of who we all are. The mangy seer in the blackness is meaning sounded by endless meaninglessness.

For a hideously bleak and pitch-black dark album that’s an oddly optimistic feeling

Not as much as yours

Honestly kinda jealous, I always find out about his shows like a week after he's been in the bay, he's doing a couple shows in sf in September though. Wish I could have been there for the seer tour or he plays some at that show

It was life altering. It was the first time I ever saw them live after being a fan of 30 years.

Same here, I love listening to F#A# infinity and the seer during quarantine.

@@jackgatti8643 Yanqui fucking UXO too

@@LV--rd6cm uhh skinny fists too no? yes?

I tend to agree but you need to watch out namedropping GYBE in a Swans thread, it’s like saying a demons true name and it will immediately summon the most insufferable fucking people ever born to sneer down their beaks at you

@@virtue7574 Every album except hairy amp drooling, Yanke UXO and Magazine (whatever it is)

Swans has a whole has a very Old Testament feel, either that or the Book of Revelation.

Very true.

Kalki Avatar

The "seer"

I am the angry man who sees through God's sins

A lot of the bells in that song sound similar to the ones here

Nice avatar, Dumbland is underrated

shit pfp

@@harrylamont6007 no u

Pardon?!

Why doesn't surprise me that a Death Grips fan also likes this band?

@@dsylexic Once you go /mu/ core you never come back

Those Grantchester Meadows Birds but more sinister

Lmao, yes

Both

W

Interesting.

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Don't insult Swans like that.

michael gira / swans have been a confirmed (see mjk's interviews) source of inspiration for tool. that being said, i guess the similarities here are limited on the triplet feel and the drones in the intro.

Fuck tool

Wow, it looks like I unintentionally waged a war with the writing staff at Pitchfork.

moviemaster8510 this is fantastic! Lol

That is the most absurd description I've ever read.😂

What a dolt.

both records are some of my favourites ever, but i gotta go with to be kind on this one, *barely*

I love the trilogy all equally

Yeah it's like The Seer is almost a 10 and To be kind feels even better, if that is possible.

i now think tbk>tgm>seer, but all are 10s

@@harrylamont6007 I feel TGM is a development of the same ideas they came up to in TBK, like they took their sound to the limit.

WUAU.........SIN PALABRAS.....A ESTA CANCION....

MiNe toO....!!!!!!! ThE beST EveR.....!!!!

It COULD have been longer. But Michael Gira always has pretty good feeling for timings, I trust him this is a close to perfect configuration. It is evocative in this state. What more can we ask?

In the midst of all I missed the hiss of her snare Like the crunch of bones