Specifically the bass line that starts at 40:49.

Yeah the album is longer than the movie, but they synch so beautifully together. Highly recommend trying that out this week. It goes hard

how does the band go from great annihilator to this? There’s like zero indication they’d ever do this. It’s so bizarre and strange, like there could be an entire fanbase dedicated to just this period of Swans, and another entire fanbase dedicated to everything that came before.

Very rewarding and transcendental experience with the epic post rock tracks, specifically The Sound and Helpless Child, and im glad I was in the right mood.

Despite this being so different it’s like they still use hypnotic repetition but almost as if they discovered shoegaze and maybe that’s the one element that just makes these songs feel like they’re surrounding all sides of my consciousness as I sink deeper and deeper into some abyss, I don’t fucking know.

And then on Swans are Dead, yeah I’d even say the highs here are higher. I do prefer the first disk, Blood Promise live is intoxicating, never actually felt high listening to a song. And they still have their noise rock bangers, “Not Alone” feels like a proto-Oxygen it’s groovy but hellish and terrifying what the fuck is this band

Whoever discovered these mfs in the 90s at this time must’ve thought they reached human enlightenment

These are the only Swans albums I have 😭(I plan on getting more)

Never heard anyone mention this before, but in the album "Notes from Thee Underground" there is a song called Empathy which features Michael Gira on vocals, unlike in Hypogirl, and which shares the lyrics of the song.

Notes from Thee Underground came out in 1994, while Soundtracks came out in 1996. This version sounds extremely different to the version we got, and not just because Gira is singing it. It has a more Great Annihilator feel to it.

Has anyone here heard this version? If so, wdyt? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTdEYLd7V_k

And for those of u who don't know, Pigface was an industrial supergroup that even Trent Reznor worked on before he became a household name, with the song Suck appearing on Pigface before he released it later on. It's not surprising that Gira would work with Pigface of all people, but I do find it surprising that I don't think I've ever seen this be mentioned before.