![]() ![]() What's the point in saying anything about something if you're just gonna tread water and say the same things over and over again? I have to mull and toil to find new words to describe it. As someone who doesn't have much experience writing music reviews, the difficulty in coming up with something new and original to say for an album makes it seem like a truly impossible task. See? It's tough! It's tough to drop everything and resort to all these big compliments and purple prose. Their evolution from monstrous no wave to epic, expansive post-rock is a sight to behold, releasing a near-perfect streak of albums throughout their 40-year career, taking the experimental rock world by storm. So it comes as more of a challenge when Swans, a band I've championed for years, puts out a new album, and I'm faced with the dilemma of how to describe the gamut of feelings I go through while listening to their next two-hour monolith. Whenever I try to review an album, even if I scarcely do it, there's always the fear that all I'll put down is a mere slurry of cliched phrases and thoughtless praising to high heaven. ![]()
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