Rec | SWANS, THE BAND

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i love repeated musical phrases 💪 but seriously listening to the seer & to be kind by swans is immersive in a way most music fails to accomplish. creepy, droning, feeling like being surrounded by thousands of screaming hooded creatures and lifted into heaven by them the next. not to geek out but these albums feel more like watching a horror movie than listening to something

@fruitbat

Mar 15, 2024

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