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Cat: STUMM 446. Rel: 28 Oct 19
Post Rock/Experimental

Side 1 - Track 1. Annaline Side 1 - Track 2. The Hanging Garden Side 1 - Track 3. Amnesia Side 2 - Track 1. Leaving Meaning Side 2 - Track 2. Sunfucker Side 3 - Track 1. Hums Side 3 - Track 2. Cathedrals Of Heaven Side 3 - Track 3. The Nub Side 4 - Track 1. It's Coming It's Real Side 4 - Track 2. What Is This? Side 4 - Track 3. My Phantom Limb

It's hard not to feel moved by Swans. To quote Wayne's World, it's not just a clever name, but rather a band every bit as graceful yet ferocious, beautiful but strong as the bird borrowed from. Take "Annaline", for example. As the first track-proper of this spellbinding collection it's a stop-you-in-your-tracks masterpiece that could force silence on a stadium despite being softly spoken, subtle and serene. It's a motif the outfit seem focused on for this, their 15th studio album. Even at its loudest, title track "Leaving Meaning" mostly plays out like a deranged sermon in some temple of experimental rock. "Sunfucker", for example, has enough reversed-out refrains to make anyone feel they might be in over their head with forces they can't see, let alone comprehend. "It's Coming It's Real" is a display of dark hypnosis. "The Hanging Garden" paints nervous abstract pictures with psychedelic-leaning guitar hooks and manic vocal cries. Put simply, it's perhaps their tensest, most introverted and spellbinding work to date.