swans
Soundtracks For The Blind (2018 REISSUE)
MUTE / YOUNG GOD
the end of the beginning for swans mark 1 was a beautiful, living and breathing album of suitably epic proportions – reissued in lush fashion for your reappraisal.
A dreamlike album, it collects a wealth of swans modes into something remarkably whole and consuming. This is them at their most filmic – and perhaps least intense in terms of volume – showcasing astounding musicians able to create worlds for you to live inside. As such it may just surprise those who otherwise find their intensity off-putting – this is like the best post-rock album you’ve ever heard, but with art and grit in its seams. “when they decided to end Swans with one last studio release as a prelude to a farewell tour, they did so with what turned out to be their biggest and best album ever” 9/10 - allmusic
***'Soundtracks for the Blind' is released for the first time on vinyl, consisting of four LPs in jackets enclosed in a box with a poster. The cd version is in original digipak from and features a bonus disc of the contemporaneous “Die Tür Ist Zu” EP***
Tracklist
- Red Velvet Corridor
- I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull
- Helpless Child
- Live Through Me
- Yum-Yab Killers
- The Beautiful Days
- Volcano
- Mellothumb
- All Lined UpSurrogate 2
- How They Suffer
- Animus
- Red Velvet Wound
- The Sound
- Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey
- Blood Section
- Hypogirl
- Minus Something
- Empathy
- I Love You This Much
- YRP
- Fan's Lament
- Secret Friends
- The Final Sacrifice
- YRP 2
- Surrogate Drone
- Ligeti's Breath / Hilflos Kind (CD ONLY)
- Ich Sehe Die Alle In Einer Reihe (CD ONLY)
- Surrogate Drones (CD ONLY)
- YRP (CD ONLY)
- You Know Everything (Reprise 1991) (CD ONLY)
- M/F (CD ONLY)
- Soundsection (CD ONLY)