Reviews / Album

It’s more a diverting curiosity than fulfilling listening experience.

One serious grower of an album, where the vocals are rawer and seem better integrated into a more ambitious sound.

For those who worship at the altar of Bob, this release is par for the peerless course; for those less fervent followers, there is still much joy to be found here.

Museum is uniformly brilliant. It also probably marks the first album to feature the phrase “piece of piss”. Top marks.

Beautiful but flawed.

They have produced the best rock album of 2012. Holyshitballs.

And the finale of Dennis Desantis’ You Say sounds like a new beginning, leaving the listener wondering what might’ve went down on the dancefloor once darkness descended.

The Seer is easily the best thing Swans have ever done.

It’s dub of a different kind for Monteith, whose previous preference for an organic take on the sound is eschewed here for vocodered vocals and something sinister in the bass department.