Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity Album Art
 three.75 | 67 ratings | 3 reviews | 33% five stars Excellent addition to any Write a review Buy SWANS Music | Studio Album, released in 1991 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. Better Than You (5:51) Total time 69:xv - Michael Gira / vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards, "sounds", samples, arranger & producer With: Artwork: Deryk Thomas CD Young God Records - YG-003-ii (1991, US) and to Quinino for the concluding updates Edit this entry |
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3.75
(67 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(33%)
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Skillful, but non-essential (15%)
Collectors/fans only (1%)
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Review by Warthur
PROG REVIEWER
This would be seen as a risible and mercifully brief phase in their existence between their shockingly raw early post- punk material that preceded this and their exceptional post-rock material that came subsequently, were it not for 1 affair: they're amazingly good at this stuff. Perhaps Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds could have stood toe to toe with Swans in the mail service-punk/goth stakes at this point in time, but precious few others could.
Review by TCat
FORUM & SITE ADMIN Grouping Eclectic / Prog Metal / Heavy Prog Team
As far as Goth Rock goes, I am not a huge fan of information technology except for some occasional songs. I do honey this album however, because it is and then well done, so atmospheric, and it still has enough of diverseness throughout it's tracks. Michael Gira's vocals are more melodic now and he has actually become a decent vocalist utilizing dynamics. Jerboe has as well become a bigger correspondent to the music. She balances out Gira'due south deep and occasionally rough vocals, and yous can hear her sing more background when she is not doing the occasional lead vocals. She is also in charge of orchestral and choral arrangements and contributing keyboards.
The percussion is powerful on this album, and is not at all pushed to that background as is the case with many goth-stone bands. Dynamics are used better than e'er before. And each rail has it'due south own personality. There is darkness, but there is besides low-cal. There is heaviness, but there is besides softness. There is too a lot of supporting musicians on this anthology, which helps immensely with the overall sound on each rails. Yes, things take changed in a big mode for this astonishing band.
The anthology starts out with 'Better than You' and 'Power and Sacrifice'. Both of these are quite upbeat with Gira singing pb and Jerboe evening things out in the background. They are both songs that are heavy in percussion and tone, still non heavy in a hard stone kind of way, but more of a scary, nighttime, almost vampiric manner. Next, 'You Know Zero' is quite a flake more quieter, with a dainty use of dynamics through the rail. This is where things are more emotional and rise above the typical Goth sound. After this, Jerboe takes the pb with her cute blatant vocals on the surprisingly beautiful and lush 'Song for a Dead Time'. On this song, I can really hear the residual she gives to the overall sound.
'Will We Survive' has a prog introduction that gives us a foreshadowing of what the hereafter of Swans volition exist when the go into full progressive mode in a few years. This is a prissy dramatic and majestic song, with the instrumentals driving the song forward. At the last part of the song, brightness comes in to the almost Celtic march experience in the form of chimes. This is a nice surprise since previous Swans albums tended to be quite dark all the way through, even during the early transition stage. 'Love Volition Relieve Y'all' on the other manus, sounds more similar music from a spaghetti western. You can close your eyes and almost picture The Human being With No Name (Clint Eastwood) riding into boondocks to this music, and his character at present has a proper name'.love? Not really the proper name I expected, merely you tin can believe it during this song.
'Failure' is a weaker runway that loses information technology'south believability equally Gira uses spoken word in place of a melody for the well-nigh part, and it's nearly embarrassingly funny. You would think he would have the voice for this style, but it doesn't work for him on this track. Information technology's more pathetic than it is atmospheric especially with the sparseness of the instrumentation on the track. 'Song for the Sun' has a sort of l-60s vibe, merely more in the 'Leader of the Pack' way than the 'California Girls' style. Even with the break in the middle where things slow down for a while, this song drags on a fiddling as well long, fifty-fifty if it's only v minutes long.
There is a return to form and fineness on the lush and orchestral 'Miracle of Love'. Halfway through, the peacefulness of the rail suddenly changes to a very progressive and heady instrumental. This one gives you a skillful indication as to where the Swans' music is going on later albums. Splendid rails. If there were more than tracks similar this on this album, it would take easily been a v star anthology. Jerboe takes the lead vocals on the cinematic 'When She Breaths', and over again her vocals are soft and blatant, but this time with more range.
'Why Are We Alive' has a long instrumental introduction and then tries to be atmospheric and pensive, but misses the marker. 'The Virtually Unfortunate Lie' utilizes a 6/four meter to terminate the album. Again, Gira tries spoken word, but succeeds this time considering it is mixed with melody later on. This time it is more effective and is a bully manner to finish an emotional album.
For the most part, this anthology has a lot of successes, but there are some weak tracks too that tend to bring it downward. Fortunately, the strengths far outweigh the weaknesses, making this an fantabulous album. If you don't heed Gira'southward deep vocals, yous volition love the musicianship and songwriting overall. But his vocals fit with the style of music quite well, and they are piece of cake to conform to considering of that. Plus you have Jerboe providing softer vocals that fifty-fifty everything out. This album truly feels similar the light at the terminate of a night tunnel, and it is amazing to hear the transition of the band.
Review by Kempokid
COLLABORATOR Prog Metallic Team
Despite my firsthand criticisms, the first few songs on the album seem to do evereything in their ability to brand these claims seem unwarranted, as they're easily some of the best cuts to be found hither, be it the extremely powerful, dramatic intro to Better Than Y'all, or Ability And Sacrifice containing such sweeping, lush instrumentals, really highlighting the amazing product here. This song almost sounds as if it's existence carried by the current of air, especially with its galloping drum beat out and the vocals in the chorus, edifice up to create a dense wall of sound that simply sounds incredible. You Know Nothing is a more slow paced vocal, but already I'thousand being reminded of previous tracks, every bit this hits so many of the same marks that Ameliorate Than You did, simply slower. Song For A Dead Time stops this from becoming likewise problematic by having Jarboe have the lead vocals, her breathy, ethereal voice further heightening the already dense atmosphere, and the slower tempo with small additions of flute and strings create a neat soundscape. Beloved Will Salvage Yous is the last song on the anthology that I really like. The lyrics here are some of the but ones that interest me on the album, the night tone contrasting amazingly with the lyrics talking well-nigh how much honey can become you through hard times, while as well blinding you to your bug. The song just has a certain poetic quality to it that I adore, and while I won't merits information technology as especially deep or genius, I withal do love this song and its repetition of "love will save you lot".
While Failure is generally considered a college point on the album, I personally consider it to exist borderline comical, easily the virtually sombre vocal here, merely I nonetheless find many aspects of information technology to be ridiculous, especially how near lines stop with a more and more than long winded way of describing failure as a burdensome force that can be hard to overcome. While this starts off as an interesting motif, information technology rapidly becomes quite one-time. After this indicate I personally don't find too much to be interesting, merely more melancholy songs with absolutely nifty production that brings a strong ethereal quality to them, giving the album some very strong positives despite how it can get pretty boring.
Overall, my main problem with the album comes downward to how similar many of the tracks audio to 1 some other in tone and even melody. The length of the anthology doesn't assistance this much at all either, equally it approaches the point where even an album I loved would kickoff to feel like information technology should approach its stop, never mind one that I've been fairly bored with for a while. I can't actually fault the core sound of the album, nor the direction that Gira went down hither, it's just that the execution is flawed and the anthology on the whole is dull, especially due to lack of variety.
Best tracks: Better Than You lot, Power and Sacrifice, Dearest Will Save Yous
Weakest tracks: Failure, Song For The Lord's day, When She Breathes
Verdict: I appear to be in the minority when expressing my opinions on this album, only try as I might, I just cannot get into it, each repeated listen taking away more and more of the appeal, rather than growing on me, as while repeated listens better help me to analyse the many layers of instrumentals in each song, I observe that it ends upwardly merely sounding like the same few songs played over again and again, even if they do have some merit.
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