Friday, September 26, 2008

Album(s) of the Week

Swans, Swans Are Dead
This is my favorite era of Swans: the period right before they called it quits in 1997. I think their music reached the pinnacle of everything it could be when Michael Gira decided it was time to move on. This 2-disc set captures the band live in all their terrible, sublime fury, for what was to be their last couple tours. It's one of my favorite live albums.



Khanate, Things Viral
Though these purveyors of avant doom have lamentably disbanded, I just got word that their final studio album will be released sometime this Winter. It'll be titled Clean Hands Go Foul.

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