Title: Have I Been Here Before?
Product review: Maybe I shrunk from even attempting to put any words to what I feel about this band, and this album. But here I am again, and the second glorious disc is playing in my ears. No one I've heard has said what M. Gira has said in the way he has said it. The lyrics alone are enough to keep them on the map of great artists forever. They used to be even more stark, but the band took a little turn toward the elegant, which worked extremely well. You can definitely hear the words with this one w/o going to the lyrics sheet. But go there anyway -- there's something about seeing them that brings home that stark poetry, makes you unable to believe anyone's really gone there, into that void, that submission to reality. Yes, it's a "time now gone," but I am in Swans' debt for their cathartic expression, one capable of helping people everywhere.Yeah, something like that...
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