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ARTIST: Swans 
TITLE: Greed 
YEAR: 1986
LABEL: PVC
CONDITION: Sleeve is a little beat but all there - VG / Vinyl is VG+ sounds good - some ligth scuffs and scratches. Original inner sleeve.
DETAILS: Featuring two bassists -- Crosby and newcomer  -- and no less than three drummers -- Gonzalez, , and  --  marks the initial turning point of  towards more varied and ultimately even more astonishing musical heights than the early records, which were aggressive beyond all words, ever indicated. The opening track "Fool" demonstrates as much, being almost wholly piano-based, though the portentous echo of the notes along with grinding guitar noises underlying 's ever-more commanding, raspy singing (as opposed to shouting) mean that it's all still very much . An increasing spaciousness and sense of more stripped-down arrangements also show up, along with some slightly more active tempos. "Anything for You" has 's strangled wail of earlier days, but the music is a little calmer, a little more restrained; "Stupid Child" uses a delicate playing of cymbals as effectively as the expected slow percussion rumbles. Lyrically, unsurprisingly, things are little different from before, with images of utter self-loathing, power, domination, and economic corrosion of the soul dominating 's words, though at times interesting new elements creep in as well. On "Heaven," for instance,  resignedly sings of a "heaven" which could be that of dying victims or of exhausted lovers, a fascinating double image.  makes her presence known on a number of songs, most effectively on the title track, where her wordless background vocals constantly loop in and out of the mix (notably, despite the title,  here sings of emotional isolation rather than the monetary greed expected given such other songs on the album as "Money Is Flesh," a slightly calmer semi-cousin to "Time Is Money (Bastard)").
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