Soundtracks for the Blind

Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind

Soundtracks for the Blind
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Artist: Swans
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2001-10-02
Music Label: Young God Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Red Velvet Corridor
  2. I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull
  3. Helpless Child
  4. Live Through Me
  5. Yum-Yab Killers
  6. The Beautiful Days
  7. Volcano
  8. Mellothumb
  9. All Lined Up
  10. Surrogate
  11. How They Suffer
  12. Animus
Music CD 2
  1. Red Velvet Wound
  2. The Sound
  3. Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey
  4. Blood Section
  5. Hypogirl
  6. Minus Something
  7. Empathy
  8. I Love You This Much
  9. YRP
  10. Fan's Lament
  11. Secret Friends
  12. The Final Sacrifice
  13. YRP
  14. Surrogate Drone

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Free Music Review: a realized work of art
Hit: 5 Stars

This is the most fully realized Swans album and maybe my favorite. It magically evokes not just difficult emotions, but the experience of consciousness at its many limits. I've gotten a ton out of it. It's mature and open to your own responses. It provokes interesting emotions and thoughts. It's what genuine art is about. Try it.

It's also, while rarely raging or indulgent, the most extreme Swans album. Gira himself concedes that he's often overworked albums in the studio. Which is why I prefer, say, the half-baked World of Skin (which has some failures on it but is often brilliant, immediate, and provocative) to, say, Children of God, with which Skin is usually packaged. Critics usually see Children as far more serious and successful than Skin artistically but I rarely listen to Children. Much of it seems overproduced and "closed"-sounding: there's almost no way for the listener to take the music personally and get anything serious out of it for himself or herself. You can just participate vicariously in Gira's desperation, confessions, and rage. It's a kind of "art porn." I know maybe that's the point. But Soundtracks for the Blind takes overworking beyond sterility/art porn to some kind of indescribable realization. Beautiful and compelling.
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