SWANS — Soundtracks For The Blind

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3.94 | 9 ratings | 1 review

Album · 1996

Filed under Non-Metal
By SWANS

Tracklist

CD 1 - Silver:

1. Red Velvet Corridor (03:04)
2. I Was a Prisoner in Your Skull (06:39)
3. Helpless Child (15:47)
4. Live Through Me (02:31)
5. Yum-Yab Killers (05:07)
6. The Beautiful Days (07:49)
7. Volcano (05:19)
8. Mellothumb (02:45)
9. All Lined Up (04:48)
10. Surrogate (01:51)
11. How They Suffer (05:52)
12. Animus (10:42)

CD 2 - Copper:

1. Red Velvet Wound (02:02)
2. The Sound (13:11)
3. Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey (03:18)
4. Blood Section (02:39)
5. Hypogirl (02:44)
6. Minus Something (04:14)
7. Empathy (06:45)
8. I Love You This Much (07:23)
9. YRP (07:46)
10. Fan's Lament (01:28)
11. Secret Friends (03:08)
12. The Final Sacrifice (10:27)
13. YRP 2 (02:09)
14. Surrogate Drone (02:09)

Total Time 141:37

CD 3 - 2018 Die Tür Ist Zu bonus - Gold:

1. Ligeti's Breath / Hilflos Kind (21:35)
2. Ich sehe die alle in einer Reihe (04:40)
3. Surrogate Drones (02:57)
4. YRP (08:39)
5. You Know Everything (Reprise 1991)
6. M/F (03:45)
7. Soundsection (08:00)

Total Time 191:13

Line-up/Musicians

- Michael Gira / electric guitar, vocals, electric 12 string guitar, sounds, acoustic guitar
- Jarboe / vocals, background vocals, sounds, organ, keyboard
- Bill Rieflin / drums, percussion, sounds, 12 string acoustic guitar
- Algis Kizys / bass guitar
- Norman Westberg / electric guitar
- Clinton Steele / electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drone guitar
- Ted Parsons / drums

About this release

2CD released 22nd October 1996 on Young God Records (YG01) / Atavistic (ALP59CD).

2x cassette released 1996 on Young God Records (YG01/1 YG01/2) / Atavistic (YG01/1 YG01/2) / Eurosun Media Corp. (YG01/1 YG01/2) / Music Corner Records (YG01/1 YG01/2).

2CD reissued 2002 and 2016 on Young God Records (YG01).

Digital album released 2014 on Young God Records.

2CD released 3rd August 2018 on Mute (CDSTUMM421) / Young God Records (YG61), with Die Tür Ist Zu as bonus tracks.

12" vinyl 4LP deluxe boxset released 27th July 2018 on Mute (STUMM421) Young God Records (YG61).

Thanks to triceratopsoil, Bosh66 for the updates

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Warthur

With snatches of found audio and occasional moments of punkish intensity emerging from the depths of a sinister ambient post-rock landscape, Swans' Soundtracks For the Blind is a daunting musical prospect which cries out for multiple listens to unpack its many mysteries. The final statement's of the band's original incarnation before they entered a period of hiatus, it sees the group's sound building on the comprehensive sonic recalibration of The Great Annihilator and moving it in a more experimental direction, with the band's post-punk and noise rock roots by now visible mostly in the form of attitude rather than actual sonic features.