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It is isn't it? Haven't gone head over heels like this for an album in ages. Plenty of Swans piledriving, but stuff like Reeling the Liars In which is as close as you'll ever get to hearing a new Johnny Cash song. Should be force fed to anyone who's spent more than 5 minutes listening to the ho hum likes of Grizzly Bear or Fleet Foxes.

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I've always tried to get into Swans (I've got Children of God for instance) but I always find them just too abrasive. However - I've been informed that Swans' best work mixed the abrasiveness with rather beautiful segues of music... what would be the best place to find this?

Also, SPT, excellent review. The line:

"As if to truly ram home how excellently this stomps all over all the la-di-da stuff that rules the Americana scene, Swans employ the prince of folky twee, Devandra Banhart to sing a little nose harp ditty with Gira's 3 year old daughter (and no, to be honest, not even Gira can really get away with that, but it's a short enough contribution not to matter) before just detonating it in a mass of sound. Oh and it's called You Fucking People Make Me Sick."

Is the best piece of music writing I've read all year