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Swans - The Great Annihilator - Drainland album

Swans - The Great Annihilator - Drainland album

  • Performer: Swans
  • Genre: Electronic / Rock
  • Title: The Great Annihilator - Drainland
  • Released: 2017
  • Style: Alternative Rock, Folk Rock, Industrial
  • Country: UK & Europe
  • MP3 version size: 1467 mb
  • FLAC version size: 1327 mb
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  • Rating: 4.1
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Their 12th album, The Great Annihilator, is a majestic symphony of haunting melodies and shifting moods. Warm" forms the album's thematic center, overflowing with ethereal vocal loops. Viewed in the context of the Swans' 12-year journey from audio pornography to majestic romanticism, The Great Annihilator serves as an epic apotheosis.

The Great Annihilator is the ninth studio album by American experimental rock band Swans. It was released on January 23, 1995, through frontman Michael Gira's own record label, Young God. The album has been described by Gira as a companion album to his solo album Drainland (1995); the two were remastered and re-released together in April 2017. The Great Annihilator received a generally positive reception from critics

By 1995’s The Great Annihilator, Swans weren’t imitating pop music so much as swallowing its features to create something monstrous. This deluxe reissue also includes Michael Gira’s solo LP Drainland. Michael Gira was just two years away from pulling the plug on his band Swans when it released The Great Annihilator in 1995. Well before then, by the late 1980s in fact, it was clear that the shape-shifting experimental outfit had morphed into something quite far removed from the brutishly loud, grinding repetition of its early efforts.

Disc 2 This album was recorded and mixed at Bill Rieflin's house in Seattle during the month of August, 1994. Track 2-10 was recorded and mixed at Baby Monster Studios, NYC 1990/1. This 2017 reissue was mastered from the original mixes at Micro-Moose, Berlin. Published by Young God Publishing (ASCAP) administered by Mute Song outside North America. Rights Society: ASCAP.

The Great Annihilator, Drainland - Студийный альбом от Swans. Вышел 28 апреля 2017г. В альбом вошло 27 треков. Продолжительность альбома: 01:59:51. I Am the Sun. 03:23. The Great Annihilator. Celebrity Lifestyle.

Where Does A Body End? 14. Telepathy 15. The Great Annihilator 16. Out 17. I Am The Sun (Live At The Flesh Club). CD2: 01. You See Through Me 02. Where Does Your Body Begin? 03. I See Them All Lined Up 04.

The Great Annihilator, originally released in 1995 and described at the time a. majestic symphony of haunting melodies and shifting moods , will be released on double vinyl – the album’s first release on vinyl for decades - and as a 2CD set. Both the vinyl (in the form of a download code) and CD will feature Drainland, Michael Gira’s debut solo album recorded at the same time as The Great Annihilator. I have long been uneasy with the sound of the mastered version of The Great Annihilator (and it's companion, contemporaneous solo album, Drainland, included here.

Between 1990 and 1995, Rieflin played for Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Pigface, and KMFDM, and The Great Annihilator was his first (of many) albums with Swans. The impact of The Great Annihilator is actually enhanced by the companion album included in this re-release, Michael Gira's solo debut Drainland. Where The Great Annihilator deals with horror and failure and despair on a macro level, Drainland is intensely, uncomfortably personal.

Tracklist Hide Credits

The Great Annihilator
1-1 Swans In 2:22
1-2 Swans I Am The Sun 3:21
1-3 Swans She Lives 6:59
1-4 Swans Celebrity Lifestyle 4:07
1-5 Swans Mother/Father 4:04
1-6 Swans Blood Promise 4:15
1-7 Swans Mind/Body/Light/Sound 4:41
1-8 Swans My Buried Child
Drums [Hand Drum] – Martin Atkins
2:56
1-9 Swans Warm
Guitar – Nicky Skopelitis
4:52
1-10 Swans Alcohol The Seed 3:27
1-11 Swans Killing For Company 6:51
1-12 Swans Mother's Milk 2:25
1-13 Swans Where Does A Body End? 3:36
1-14 Swans Telepathy 6:05
1-15 Swans The Great Annihilator 4:54
1-16 Swans Out
Double Bass – Lary Seven
2:15
1-17 Swans I Am The Sun (Live At The Flesh Club) 6:07
Drainland
2-1 M.Gira* You See Through Me 5:41
2-2 M.Gira* Where Does Your Body Begin? 3:04
2-3 M.Gira* I See Them All Lined Up 4:13
2-4 M.Gira* Unreal 4:48
2-5 M.Gira* Fan Letter 7:01
2-6 M.Gira* Your Naked Body 2:30
2-7 M.Gira* Low Life Form 3:41
2-8 M.Gira* If You... 4:41
2-9 M.Gira* Why I Ate My Wife 5:53
2-10 M.Gira* Blind 4:33

Companies, etc.

  • Published By – Young God Publishing
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Young God Records
  • Copyright (c) – Young God Records
  • Pressed By – Copycats Media – 6745-CD-1353
  • Pressed By – Copycats Media – 6745-CD-1354

Credits

  • Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Voice, Vocals, Sounds – M. Gira*
  • Bass Guitar – Algis Kizys* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-17), Jenny Wade (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
  • Drums – Anton Fier (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Ted Parsons (tracks: 1-1 to 1-17)
  • Drums, Sounds, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards, Electric Bass – Bill Rieflin*
  • Electric Guitar – Clinton Steele, Christoph Hahn* (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Norman Westberg (tracks: 1-1 to 1-17)
  • Keyboards, Vocals, Backing Vocals, Sounds, Organ – Jarboe
  • Music By – Jarboe (tracks: 1-8, 1-16)
  • Producer – Jarboe (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), M. Gira*, Bill Rieflin* (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
  • Strings – The Lower East Side String Ensemble (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
  • Words By, Music By – M. Gira*

Notes

Released in a 6-panel Digipak printed on embossed cardboard with a pocket on the left inner panel for the booklet - a 12 pages fold-out booklet with lyrics and credits.

Copies ordered from Young God Records are signed by Michael Gira.

"Mind/Body/Light/Sound" - appears to be 10 seconds shorter than on the original release.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Disc 1): YG592CD1 6745-CD-1353 17-063-14
  • Mastering SID Code (Disc 1): IFPI LK13
  • Matrix / Runout (Disc 2): YG592CD2 6745-CD-1354 17-063-13
  • Mastering SID Code (Disc 2): IFPI LK13

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
YG59, CDSTUMM402 Swans The Great Annihilator - Drainland ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM + CD, Album, RE, RM + Comp) Young God Records, Mute Records Ltd. YG59, CDSTUMM402 UK & Europe 2017

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