Beast Moans

Swan Lake - Beast Moans

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Artist: Swan Lake
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Music Label: Jagjaguwar
Soundtracks:
  1. Widow's Walk
  2. Nubile Days
  3. City Calls
  4. A Venue Called Rubella
  5. All Fires
  6. The Partisan But He's Got To Know
  7. The Freedom
  8. Petersburg, Liberty Theater, 1914
  9. The Pollenated Girls
  10. Bluebird
  11. Pleasure Vessels
  12. Are You Swimming In Her Pools?
  13. Shooting Rockets

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Free Music Review: With all due respect to Tchaikovsky, I like this better :)
Hit: 5 Stars

For those who already familiar with the three constituent bands represented by Swan Lake, I'd say the order of each of the three's influence goes in the order of seniority: Destroyer, then Frog Eyes, then Sunset Rubdown/Wolf Parade. Regarding the latter bands' Spencer Krug, he hasn't the experience to have carved out a definite stylistic niche of his own, but his musical talent perhaps matches or exceeds the others. So the album ends up sounding alternately like Frog Eye Carey Mercer's angular, grating screeches over an eery ambience and Destroyer Dan Bejar's wandering, sneering vocals over lush instrumentation. Combined with Krug's burgeoning talent for soundscapes, proven in both Wolf Parade and the more recent and avant-garde Sunset Rubdown albums, the combined talent of the three add up to what could turn out to be the Rolling Stones of our era-- if not for the fact that the notion of screaming teenage girls populating the front rows of the concerts is completely ridiculous. But without a doubt, they're the consummate underground art-rock ensemble.

Those unfamiliar with the bands mentioned above should note that Dan Bejar is *not* the New Pornographers. As much as the NP's differ from Neko Case's solo output, Bejar differs from the NP's power-pop. Another reviewer insisted on comparing them to the Decemberists, which is completely short-sighted and inappropriate. Bejar's voice kind of has the same nasally quality; both bands are working with the large epic-quality sound textures and struggling (successfully) to overcome the standard pop format while retaining elements of pop-- the differences stop there.

It's not worthwhile to breakdown the album song-by-song since few of the songs really stand out among the others and the album itself is the completed work-- not unlike any of the albums of the three members' previous bands (except Wolf Parade's Queen Mary, which is mostly track-based), or, for example, In The Aeroplane Over the Sea, Dark Side of the Moon or the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. On many of the tracks, it sounds like the three members wrote separately and then recorded together. On others, such as the first, second and last, it was clear that at least two of the three wrote in collaboration. If the goal was to mix their individual styles seamlessly, they ended up doing a pretty good job, but the result is only marginally better than a sum of its parts-- which is still really good. Highly recommended for a certain class of music fans. I'd recommend buying, in order, Destroyer's Rubies, Frog Eyes' The Golden River (or Folded Palm) and, if you're still intrigued, Sunset Rubdown's Shut Up I Am Dreaming, before judging this album too harshly. It may not be your type of music.

Overall, it's an enormously satisfying album. I hope Swan Lake is on-going and not just a one-time side project because I really think they have the potential to be the most progressive and memorable bands of our time. Enjoy!
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