ITT:

We discuss our favorite Swans album, in a civil manner.

I like cop, because I work out a lot. What do you like, user?

this album is too perfect to work out to. I give it my full attention and just lose myself in it. But, Filth, I can work out to.

What are your top 5 swans albums?

To Be Kind :)

1. Cop
2. Public Castration
3. Filth
4. To Be Kind
5. Soundtracks For The Blind

it's got to be filth. it feels the most raw and is oddly intimate.

yeah, i always get the feeling i'm watching a live show when i listen to filth even though it's studio-recorded

Always thought that Great Annihilator was underrated

I love everything about Soundtracks. The piano loop in the beginning and the drones and melodies fading in and out of the spoken word and helpless child is a perfect song with the those fucking drums at the end and then the aggressive songs and the quiet songs and the drone songs it's one of only a few albums so varied and captivating,

either white light or the burning world

Great Annihilator, I feel like it's the closest thing to a "nexus point" release in their career. It continued the post-punk direction of its immediate predecessors while both bringing back some of the raw energy of the early stuff and foreshadowing the post-rock direction of the later stuff. On top of that it's probably their easiest set of songs to digest, making it one of their most conventionally enjoyable records as well. I can definitely understand wanting to hear Swans in more extreme guises but I really like how Great Annihilator is a bit of everything.