Music
The Seer
Born in the New York post-punk squalor that mothered pals Sonic Youth, Swans make their grandest statement yet for their 30th birthday. There are muses old (vocalist Jarboe) and new (Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O, singing the haunted folk prayer “Song for a Warrior”). But guitar noise is leader Michael Gira’s reigning mistress: See the roaring 32-minute title track – a season in hell, and then some.
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