The Krautrock Space

SO EXCITED, going to order this maybe tomorrow.  

COMING OUT SOON !

HolyMoly wrote: I didn't like the last Swans album all that much (though it wasn't bad), but if the next album has more songs like this, I'll be a very happy guy.

I really liked their most recent one.

Guldbamsen wrote: Where to start Steve?  As you know I am pretty eclectic, but perhaps I lean towards the psychedelic side of things, although I must admit feeling somewhat disturbingly attracted to albums such as the Current 93 debut, which just listened to again for the first time in over a year.

I'm going to say The Great Annihilator - their token post-punk album - or Soundtracks for the Blind, which is their longest and most diverse work.

The early stuff is really ugly in a way that appeals to me, but probably not most people.

Also, this is my favourite Swans song

Also also, C93 is great




Edited by Triceratopsoil - June 15 2012 at 18:01

They had 2 distinct phases/styles over their history, with a brief "transitional" style in between.  I guess that makes 3 styles.  Whatever.

Anyway, the early stuff is percussive, dissonant, pounding, slow, industrial post-punk.  The 2-disc "Filth/Body to Body, Job to Job" CD (containing 2 full albums) is the best I've heard of that era.  Very desperate, sad stuff. 

The later stuff is much more melodic, but its appeal comes from expansive, huge arrangements of cinematic tragedy and despair, rather than the beat-your-head-against-the-wall variety of the early years. Occasionally they got pretty experimental in this phase too - and "Soundtracks for the Blind" is my favorite one I've heard of this type, a very long double CD album.  It's got quite a few ambient instrumentals I like, plus a real intense 15 minute monster that builds very slowly to a horrific climax.


Edited by HolyMoly - June 15 2012 at 14:12

I didn't like the last Swans album all that much (though it wasn't bad), but if the next album has more songs like this, I'll be a very happy guy.

No, one collab voted move and nobody else has posted yet

They are on RIO chart, I would have thought eclectic or maybe even folk over that


Edited by Triceratopsoil - June 14 2012 at 22:28

Hell, I'm already planning on suggesting them based on their last album, but suggested Angels of Light first as a pilot of sorts.  If they get added, I'll be making a Swans thread shortly after; if not, I'll wait until next album.

Probably not for krautrock though

Triceratopsoil wrote: I fully expect Swans next studio album to be full-on krautrock

Um, closer to Psych than Kraut for me.

Mellotron Storm wrote: HolyMoly wrote: Dogs are pretty incredible creatures when you think about it.  But yeah, tennis balls do have a very distinct smell.  I should come up with a tennis ball cologne.   Yeah it would come in a green fuzzy bottle

And call it "40-Love"