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The Seer

Release date
28 Aug 2012
Running length
18 tracks
Running time
171:03

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Lunacy 6:09 54,839
2 Mother of the World 9:57 47,305
3 The Wolf 1:35 42,814
4 The Seer 32:14 38,904
5 The Seer Returns 6:17 32,730
6 93 Ave. B Blues 5:21 29,214
7 The Daughter Brings the Water 2:40 29,693
1 Song for a Warrior 3:58 26,786
2 Avatar 10:36 29,519
3 A Piece of the Sky 19:10 21,607
4 The Apostate 10:21 24,782
1 No Words / No Thoughts 9:25 32,585
4 Beautiful Child (Fragment) 3:43 33
5 Jim 6:47 31,362
6 Sex God Sex 10:34 5,285
7 The Seer / I Crawled 32:16 59

About this album

The Seer is the twelfth studio album by American post-punk band Swans, released on August 28, 2012. Producer and frontman Michael Gira funded the recording of the album with the sales of We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head. The album features vocals from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs vocalist Karen O, Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker of Low, members of Akron/Family, Ben Frost, Grasshopper from Mercury Rev and former Swans member Jarboe.

Frontman Michael Gira described the album as taking “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.”[10] Describing the songwriting process, Gira said, “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.”
At nearly two hours, The Seer is over twice as long as its predecessor, My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky. The album also features many drone elements, present in the title track and the first half of “A Piece of the Sky”.
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