SWANS Filth LP

SWANS Filth LP

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(Young God)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
    Hey, it's 2015, and still nothing matches the sheer teeth-loosening power of Swans' Filth. An all-time favorite, this one. Out of print on vinyl for decades, Young God's new reissue of Filth was one of the most highly anticipated reissues here at C-Blast, a crucial slab of crushing urban decay and psychological putrescence from this legendary, pioneering post-punk outfit. Newly re-mastered and presented in essentially the same jacket design as the original with a large foldout poster, the band's 1983 debut (originally released on Neutral Records) has certainly never sounded heavier or more bludgeoning than it does here. Long available only via the band's extensive double CD collection Filth / Body To Body Job To Job, this album from the classic pre-Jarboe lineup is Swans at their all-time ugliest, lumbering through a set of some of the nastiest No Wave-damaged sludge ever, their sound and their attack informed by the early industrial skree of Throbbing Gristle, the discordant energy surrounding the nascent NYC art-punk underground, and the caveman punk stomp of classic Stooges. At the time, Gira stated that he wanted Swans to be heavier than anything else, and he succeeded - make no mistake, Filth sounded like nothing else in the early 80s, an abject trudge through pounding brutalist rhythms produced by the formidable drumming team of Jonathan Kane and Roli Mosimann, who bashed out their simple but powerful rhythms on dual drum kits and assorted metal detritus, infesting the booming slow dirge-like tempos with an array of clanking junk, while guitarist Norman Westberg smears his atonal chords and howling jagged anti-melodies over the spiked off-kilter grooves, and Harry Crosby's bass lurches against the beat. Behind the band's abrasive assault, various crudely constructed tape loops and mutated electronics squeal and splutter, a backdrop of warped noises that potentiate the disturbing feel of this music. The atonal skronk of songs like "Big Strong Boss" obviously draw from the No Wave stuff that had emerged several years earlier, but here Gira and team hammered that sound into something so much more heavy and grotesque, a perfect backing on which Gira was able to hang his yowling vocals, his lyrics drenched in themes of power, sex, greed and debasement that Gira would continue to explore throughout Swans' career, but here blunted and stripped down to a kind of broken sewer poetry, barked out in a minimal, declamatory delivery over the band's brutal noise-addled punk. Seminal stuff; just take a listen to the discordant quasi-hardcore of "Freak", there's no mistaking the album's influence on pretty much all extreme metal, punk and industrial that followed. A truly essential album within the realm of extreme music.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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