Swans - Great Annihilator
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Free Music Review: "The Great Annihilator" - Swans
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is one of the greatest, most memorable pieces of music I have ever heard! I am a new listener to Swans and I have to say that this album left me speechless. The low, male vocals and Jarboe's vocals mixing with the strange, dark tones of the music creates its own atmosphere. This album creates something beautiful!Free Music Review: A great introduction!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is my first (and certainly not the last) Swans CD. What a great way to be introduced to this band! I can't even pick one or two tracks that stand out because they ALL stand out. Beautiful noise, indeed!Free Music Review: Swan song...
Hit: 5 Stars
Swans final opus, what a great album this is! Buy it, listen to it, submerge yourself into this kind of music. Long live the Swans!!Free Music Review: Forget that idea...
Hit: 5 Stars
"Swans Are Dead." That's the beauty of it. I'll just enjoy what I have.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.