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The Seer won't be for everybody, but deserves to win new converts. Gira's stated musical goals are 'beauty and ecstasy', and both abound in the tinkling bells of the hypnotic Avatar, epic constructions of guitar and percussion, Gira's Lou Reedy singing in A Piece of the Sky or Can-like mantra The Apostate. Perseverance brings rewards: the haunting funk grind of The Seer Returns or the unusually pretty Karen O-sung Song for a Warrior, an ethereal country ballad. The marathon title track crashes like waves of heavy metal on to an industrial shore.

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Opener Lunacy ('Lunacy! Lunacy!') sounds like a witchcraft chant Mother of the World repeats two notes over what sounds like a TV test tone. Two hours long and containing songs lasting 30 minutes, it is loftily described by frontman Michael Gira as 'the culmination of every other Swans album'. Their second album since reforming in 2010 after a 14-year hiatus won't quite so terrify the faint-hearted, but is certainly a challenge. Anyone buying the The Seer from the Young God shop here will get an exclusive Swans live DVD.S wans' reputation arrives before them: the 'loudest' or 'heaviest' band in the world, with dark rumours of punishing gigs making audiences vomit. In the mind of no one Fallen son Fall in love Break the chain Hide within Innocence Not innocent Innocent In the sense Eat the beast Keep hi. Said ecstasy will be released on triple vinyl and double digipack CD on August 27th. The Seer features acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, casio, sounds, lap steel guitars, hammer dulcimer, orchestral bells, 'handmade violin thing', vibraphone, piano, clarinet, bass guitar, voice, 'incredible handshake', organ, casio, synthesizer, voice, 'bird idea…', acoustic and electric mandolins, fire sounds (acoustic and synthetic), bagpipes, horns, steel cello, accordion, violin, various songs, and cello contra-bassoon. Our goal is the same: ecstasy!' We're down with that. Without them I’m a fluffy kitten, an infant.

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LUNACY (4x) Hide beneath Your monkey skin Feel his love Nurture him Kill the truth Or speak the name. He concludes with a pop at those who misunderstand Swans as hoary grumps: 'Despite what you might have heard or presumed, my goal is to spread light and joy through the world. In the mind of no one Fallen son Fall in love Break the chain Hide within Innocence Not innocent Innocent In the sense Eat the beast Keep him in Take the blame Speak the name. The songs began on an acoustic guitar, then were fleshed out with (invaluable) help from my friends, then were further tortured and seduced in the studio, and now they await further cannibalism and force-feeding as we prepare to perform some of them live, at which point they’ll mutate further, endlessly, or perhaps be discarded for a while.' The frames blur, blend and will eventually fade. But it’s unfinished, like the songs themselves.

It’s the culmination of every previous Swans album as well as any other music I’ve ever made, been involved in or imagined.

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Michael Gira's full statement about The Seer reads as follows: ' The Seer took 30 years to make. What's more, it features a host of guest artists including Ben Frost, Karen O, Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker of Low, members of Akron/Family, Grasshopper from Mercury Rev and (one imagines this will get many of you in a tizzy), former Swans member Jarboe on backing vocals and 'voice collage'. This record, described by Michael Gira as 'the culmination of every previous Swans album as well as any other music I’ve ever made, been involved in or imagined', clocks in at two hours in length. We're therefore thrilled to report that Swans have announced full details of their next studio album, The Seer. Their last album, My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky was one of the best of 2010, their concerts last year were acts of physical endurance and euphoric release, and the recent live record capturing those performances is a phenomenal listen. Its the culmination of every previous Swans album as well as any other music Ive ever made. As we at the Quietus have helpfully pointed out, Swans are the greatest rock band on the planet, or at least high up among them.