Tbh? This is pretentious garbage

Tbh? This is pretentious garbage

At least its not derivative like the Seer

kys

>pretentious
meaningless buzzword

The Sound/Helpless Child/Animus are the GOAT post rock song trilogy

this
I dislike this particular album but I still think pretentious is a word used by braintlets when faced with anything more complicated that shithop or pop

Just out of curiosity, what do you dislike about the album?

desu i have shit level of attention span and the swans are arleady pushing me with some of their albums and this is just too much for me, not saying its bad, I just dislike it because of that.

pretentious, meaning that there is an underlying pretense to the music, i.e. an inorganic sound and an overall vibe of being derivative for the sake of achieving some kind of nefarious result (like being appreciated for following a certain trend, for example)

Swans sound v organic tho

Not him, but the most recent trilogy and their earlier records have a more raw and genuine emotion. Soundtracks For the Blind is like “Fools Gold” so to speak

Really? I thought their recent trilogy was even more ingenuine. It's as if they're overlong for the sake of being overlong, boringly meandering without enough quality material to actually be worthwhile. I've always found SFTB more honest, in that the album's length is justified by all the great, engaging music. I don't think the same can be said for their last 3 albums.

I understand that. To me, I feel like their most recent work was the sonic equivalent to becoming a god/and or a devil. It’s like having to plow through and overcome the existential crisis of living, only to at the end see that it all stems from the same place and there may be no higher power at all, but the power of the mind and ego seems to be what can deceive a human being into believing he/she could be more “powerful”
Than their peers, when really it’s its just perspective and learning at you’re own pace without any ideas of objectivity

Furthermore, the recent trilogy is the result of someone as fucked as Gira in the head having nearly 20 years to create, imagine, and sketch these soundscapes out.

Everyone knows that you are fucked up.

That album is in some way one of music's final bosses for me.

It's like, everything Swans had been doing for more than 10 years, spanning like 5 different genres, converged into something truly cathartic.

The atmosphere is the high point. The sense of bleakness and lethargy this album manages to exude is outstanding.

The fact the millennium was about to end and the band itself was kinda collapsing only added to the sense of "apocalypse" that album gives. But not a loud, disastrous apocalypse, rather a quiet, introspective and melancholic Armageddon where everything and everyone simply decides to give up.

Not perfect by any means... there is some lack of consistency. But it's still captivating and beautiful in its flaws.

You have to at the least admit the vocal samples are awesome. It was pretty influential too.

cloud of forgetting is the best song of all time

I AM WHAT THEY CALL
L E G A L L Y B L I N D

Everyone knows that you are fucked up
And everyone knows that I am fucked up
But, does everyone know
That you are more fucked up than me?
*cathartic drone*

Or just to describe 99 % of Sup Forumss taste which is indeed pretentious.

pretentious Simple trying to be complex.

>its potentiuz garbage!!

this is actually true though
neo-swans is trite garbage. gira lost the touch after angels of light.

/thread

this desu, hes a very unsettled man, brains like that dont just stop being like that in the same sense of another artists creative resources drying up, thats for LIFE,

im suprised swans isnt considered outsider music, the early stuff is proper atonal/raw

(Her mouth is filled with honey is best track btw)