Swans have revealed more details about their upcoming double album (and one of our more anticipated albums of the summer). The Seer spans 11 tracks, and will be released on August 28th via Michael Gira's own imprint Young God.
According to a press release (via The Quietus), the album features contributions from Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O, Low's Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker, Akron/Family, Ben Front and Mercury Rev's Grasshopper. Even more impressive is the instrumentation utilized (and I quote): 'acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, casio, sounds, lap steel guitars, hammer dulcimer, orchestral bells, 'handmade violin thing', vibraphone, piano, clarinet, bass guitar, voice, 'incredible handshake', organ, casio, synthesizer, voice, 'bird idea'', acoustic and electric mandolins, fire sounds (acoustic and synthetic), bagpipes, horns, steel cello, accordion, violin, various songs, and cello contra-bassoon.'
Gira said in a statement, 'The Seer 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.'
Check out the album's tracklist below, along with a teaser trailer for a DVD that comes included in the special edition of The Seer.
The Seer Tracklist:
01. Lunacy
02. Mother of the World
03. The Wolf
04. The Seer
05. The Seer Returns
06. 93 Ave. B Blues
07. The Daughter Brings the Water
08. Song for a Warrior
09. Avatar
10. A Piece of the Sky
11. The Apostate
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