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Swans name extra LP collaborators
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 30 May 2012
Swans have shared further details about their new album, ‘The Seer’, which is set for release on 27 Aug. With Karen O, Low’s Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker, and Akron/Family amongst its known guest collaborators, it appears the LP will also feature favours from Ben Frost, Mercury Rev’s Grasshopper and one-time Swans keyboardist Jarboe on backing vocals. All of which might just about justify its two-hour playing time.
The group’s Michael Gira soliloquises thus on the LP: “It took 30 years to make. It’s the culmination of every previous Swans album as well as any other music I’ve ever made, been involved in or imagined. But it’s unfinished, like the songs themselves. It’s one frame in a reel. The frames blur, blend and will eventually fade. The songs began on an acoustic guitar, then were fleshed out with (invaluable) help from my friends, then were further tortured and seduced in the studio, and now they await further cannibalism and force-feeding as we prepare to perform some of them live, at which point they’ll mutate further, endlessly, or perhaps be discarded for a while”.
The successor to Swans’ much praised 2010 record ‘My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky’, ‘The Seer’ will be released in its various forms on 27 Aug.
