Swans - Great Annihilator
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Artist: SwansEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-01-22
Music Label: Young God Records
Soundtracks:
- In
- I Am the Sun
- She Lives
- Celebrity Lifestyle
- Mother/Father
- Blood Promise
- Mind/Body/Light/Sound
- My Buried Child
- Warm
- Alcohol the Seed
- Killing for Company
- Mother's Milk
- Where Does a Body End?
- Telepathy
- The Great Annihilator
- Out
- I Am the Sun
Free Music Notes for Great Annihilator
Free Music Review: Their most approachable
Hit: 4 Stars
The Great Annihilator is an almost awkward collection of music. Positioned one step away from the end of the Swans' career, and coming at the tail end of quite possibly the most radical reinvention ever seen in popular music. The tunes here aren't quite the sunny, psychotic ballads of White Light, nor are they the freeform noise collages that would make up their final effort. The Great Annihilator is smack dab in the middle of the two, featuring basic song structures, driving rhythms, ambient synths and samples (with some interesting exploratory touches), and the vocal syzygy of Jarboe and Gira at its most harmonious. With this record, which would have been the signal that the formula was getting old for any other band, the Swans accomplished what seemed for them to be far out of reach, they made an accessable album.
It's nothing set to top the charts for sure, with songs like Telepathy and She Lives lyrically calling to mind Gira's moonlighting stint as a serial killer while writing The Consumer. But the ever-present emotional lead weights that came piled on much of the band's earlier material seem to have been left out of this one. Sure it's dark and brooding, but the airy, shimmering synthesizer and guitar work coupled with lively tempos set it a world apart from nearly everything else they've done. Still, this is unmistakably the Swans. Touchstones like warped spirituality, self-contained tragedy, and blunt repetition are all here, albeit in prettier, poppier packages than ever. So if you're curious, but don't feel like diving into the deep end of this band, this is for you.
Oh and be certain to buy this from Young God Records directly to get it autographed by MG for free.
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Their 12th album, 'The Great Annihilator, is a majestic symphony of haunting melodies and shifting moods. Spirituality - or rather the absence of it - provides the linking motif. Taken on its own, this album is a vivid example of how to combine the dissonant with the dulcet while retaining a dangerous edge. Viewed in the context of the Swans' 12-year journey from audio pornography to majestic romanticism, The Great Annihilator serves as an epic apotheosis. Packaged in a Digipak. Young God Records.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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