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10.0
16770
10.0 |
No Ripcord
Gira, through his many years as a champion of alienating force, has come up with something pretty amazing
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10.0
16778
10.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky is the album Michael Gira always had in him, and has gloriously realised
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9.0
16791
9.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
It is essentially a misanthropic opera, richly orchestrated, full of choruses, and recorded with beautiful meticulousness
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9.0
16856
9.0 |
NME
Swans bleakness is beset with great beauty
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9.0
16893
9.0 |
Blurt
There is clever nuance and cool tension throughout
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9.0
17067
9.0 |
PopMatters
Swans again carries off the seemingly impossible task of making music for both the void and the soul
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9.0
18122
9.0 |
Rave Magazine
Ranks favourably against Swans revered back catalogue. Hallelujah!
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8.0
18285
8.0 |
The Quietus
Not a hopeful album, nor thankfully one of triumphalist indignation
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8.0
16595
8.0 |
Uncut
Many highlights, among them a song called "You fucking People Make Me Sick". Print edition only
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8.0
16596
8.0 |
Mojo
More evolutionary advance than nostalgia cash-in. Print edition only
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8.0
16801
8.0 |
Bowlegs
Swans fans should be excited and those new to the band may need to have a little sit down to settle their stomachs
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8.0
16818
8.0 |
The Scotsman
Mesmerising industrial blues
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8.0
16585
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
[This album] ought to also serve as another broadside to the idea of reformations being inherently grubby and uncreative ventures
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8.0
16586
8.0 |
Spin
[A] fastidiously crafted clamor that's as cauterizing as ever
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8.0
16587
8.0 |
BBC
It’s a majestic return and, let us hope, a harbinger of more to come.
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7.7
16840
7.7 |
Pitchfork
My Father is less about the Eno-esque sonic tapestries and more about Gira's love for apocalyptic country blues
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7.5
17883
7.5 |
Prefix
This disc is an awfully combative listen - this shit will push at you and push at you, and you have to be willing to take the hits
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7.0
16589
7.0 |
musicOMH
It is...good to have a band and an artist with this darkly poetic a vision back recording and performing once again
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6.0
17195
6.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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6.0
16588
6.0 |
The Skinny
Swans have returned with an uncompromising (and nihilistic) intent
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5.0
16843
5.0 |
The Digital Fix
Essentially the rehashing of old parts from the first period of Swans’ history without adding anything new or worthwhile
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