Swan Lake - Beast Moans
Our Price: $14.98
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $3.50 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more new music releases
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Music CD Cover
Artist: Swan LakeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Music Label: Jagjaguwar
Soundtracks:
- Widow's Walk
- Nubile Days
- City Calls
- A Venue Called Rubella
- All Fires
- The Partisan But He's Got To Know
- The Freedom
- Petersburg, Liberty Theater, 1914
- The Pollenated Girls
- Bluebird
- Pleasure Vessels
- Are You Swimming In Her Pools?
- Shooting Rockets
Free Music Notes for Beast Moans
Free Music Review: Can't Stop Listening...
Hit: 5 Stars
I love this album so much. I'm a big fan of Destroyer/Dan Bejar, so I bought this album without having heard anything from it. I'm so glad I took a chance. It's amazing how listenable it is for something that's pretty experimental. I definitely want to hear the work of the other 2 guys now. Ooh I want to hear it right now!
Beast Moans Poster
This new band features Daniel Bejar (Destroyer, New Pornographers), Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown), and Carey Mercer (Frog Eyes). The songs here are great weaves, showcasing the famous and distinctive songwriting styles of Bejar, Krug, and Mercer. The sum is definitely greater than the parts, sounding like nothing else.Swan Lake is a supergroup made in indie-rock heaven, featuring Dan Bejar (Destroyer), Carey Mercer (Frog Eyes), and Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eyes) and debut Beast Moans is the cacophonous, lo-fi outcome of their collaboration. Using what they do best, Swan Lake's members have meshed their distinct styles and odd voices together, mingling them to create something limitless and fresh. But, cooperation takes patience, and so does this album. There's a lot going on and without the guide of great engineering, wading through some of the murkiness is probably best left to the band's other pre-established fans. While this record isn't a collection of bonus tracks, there are undeniable watermarks: Destroyer fans will rejoice at strident "The Freedom" that's so Destroyer that it self-references a city of daughters, yet is peppered up with Krug's characteristic weirdo keyboards and Mercer's haunting backup singing. Similarly, "All Fires" and "Bluebird" spark pure pathos not unlike other Sunset Rubdown lamentations, and Carey Mercer's spastic frenzies aren't at all hushed either. Echoes of the inescapable rock & roll canon are here too. If it ever seemed lazy to compare Destroyer to David Bowie, that association has a leg to stand on in the sum of Swan Lake, as Mercer renews Bowie on "City Calls" and the album's mood recalls Bowie's Eno-influenced period. Also, the playful "A Venue Called Rubella" is really Beatlesy and "The Partisan But He's Got to Know," is a raucous Pere Ubu jaunt that could be the soundtrack to a Bobby Socks night for the undead--not a bad thing, in fact it's the best track on the album. Perhaps intentionally, the lyrics are mostly indecipherable and swirl together in static ("Pleasure Vessels," "Shooting Rockets"); the duets Krug and Bejar share are sometimes like duels ("Are You Swimming in Her Pools"). Overall, the album is loud and challenging, aptly full of moaning, gnashing, and circumstances of halting, crystalline beauty. --Gabi Knight
Alternative Rock Music CDs
Music Genres
Top music charts in Truly Great Albums
Alkaline Trio - From Here to InfirmaryRelease date: 2001-04-03; Music CD
Best price: $8.30
Price in other shops:
Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We DieRelease date: 2005-04-12; Music CD
Best price: $6.99
Price in other shops:
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead PlaceRelease date: 2003-11-04; Music CD
Best price: $9.92
Price in other shops:
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - f#a# (infinity symbol)Release date: 2007-01-08; Music CD
Best price: $9.98
Price in other shops:
Swan Lake - Beast MoansRelease date: 2006-11-21; Music CD
Best price: $8.48
Price in other shops:
The Servant - The ServantRelease date: 2004-12-06; Music CD
Best price: $46.01
Price in other shops:
Sufjan Stevens - IllinoiseRelease date: 2005-07-05; Music CD
Best price: $9.74
Price in other shops:
Final Fantasy - He Poos CloudsRelease date: 2006-06-13; Music CD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
Third Eye Blind - Third Eye BlindRelease date: 1997-04-08; Published: 1997; Music CD
Best price: $3.32
Price in other shops:
The Postal Service - Give UpRelease date: 2003-02-18; Music CD
Best price: $9.02
Price in other shops:
Top Rated Albums
Handsome Furs - Plague ParkRelease date: 2007-05-22; Music CD
Best price: $9.69
Price in other shops:
Frog Eyes - Tears of the ValedictorianRelease date: 2007-05-01; Music CD
Best price: $4.53
Price in other shops:
Panda Bear - Person PitchRelease date: 2007-04-09; Music CD
Best price: $9.23
Price in other shops:
Grizzly Bear - Yellow HouseRelease date: 2006-09-05; Music CD
Best price: $9.54
Price in other shops:
The National - BoxerRelease date: 2007-05-22; Music CD
Best price: $5.61
Price in other shops:
Menomena - Friend and FoeRelease date: 2007-01-23; Music CD
Best price: $8.48
Price in other shops:
Joanna Newsom - YsRelease date: 2006-11-14; Music CD
Best price: $10.24
Price in other shops:
The Shins - Wincing the Night AwayRelease date: 2007-01-23; Music CD
Best price: $10.28
Price in other shops:
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit LoverRelease date: 2007-10-09; Music CD
Best price: $9.50
Price in other shops:
Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am DreamingRelease date: 2006-05-02; Music CD
Best price: $9.90
Price in other shops: