The Seer (Swans album)

The Seer
The Seer
Studio album by Swans
Released	August 28, 2012
Recorded	2011
Studio	Studio P4 (Berlin); Andere Baustelle (Berlin); Marcata Studio (Gardiner, NY); Trout Recording (Brooklyn, NY)
Genre	Post-rock ; experimental ; noise rock ; drone ; art rock ;
Length	119:13
Language	English
Label	Young God
Producer	Michael Gira
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Last updated May 18, 2024

The Seer is the twelfth studio album by the American experimental rock band Swans. It was released by Young God Records on August 28, 2012. Producer and front man Michael Gira funded the recording of the album with the sales of the live double album We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head (2012).

While the previous studio album My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky was seen as a cross between Gira's solo project Angels of Light and late Swans, The Seer strayed away from Angels of Light's more accessible songs and lyricism, focusing more around sonic landscapes. The album features a variety of instrumentation and guest musicians, including the post-punk band Yeah Yeah Yeahs vocalist Karen O and former Swans member Jarboe. The album is noteworthy due to its extended song lengths, particularly its over thirty minute title track, as well as its frequent experimentation with drone and noise elements. The album garnered critical acclaim from mainstream publications and appeared in publications' best of the year album lists. The Seer is considered the first part of a three-album trilogy, alongside the following To Be Kind (2014) and The Glowing Man (2016).

Background

The album was funded with the sales of the live double album We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head as front man Michael Gira stated that the rise of internet piracy caused a need to fund records in this fashion.^[6] He described the album as taking "30 years to make" and is "the culmination of every previous Swans album as well as any other music I've ever made".^[7] Describing the songwriting process, Gira said, "The songs began on an acoustic guitar, then were fleshed out with (invaluable) help from my friends, then were further tortured and seduced in the studio, and now they await further cannibalism and force-feeding as we prepare to perform some of them live, at which point they'll mutate further, endlessly, or perhaps be discarded for a while." The songs "93 Ave. B Blues", "The Seer", "The Apostate," and "Avatar" were developed during tours and rehearsals while the rest of the songs were created in the studio.^[7] While their previous effort was seen as a continuation of Gira's folk solo project Angels of Light mixed with Swans' original elements, Gira stated that The Seer was more focused as a Swans effort due to touring.^[8]

The band started recording in Berlin after a hiatus during touring as Gira wanted to get it done while they were a live band.^[9] After a year of touring, they recorded in New York while Gira spent the next five months doing overdubs and fleshing out songs written on his acoustic guitar.^[9] While Gira sings on the majority of the songs, he enlisted Karen O to assist with singing "Song for a Warrior" because Gira believed that "Since the song is like a country lullaby, I thought it would be appropriate for a female. Chris [Pravdica, Swans' bass player] pointed me to a few of Karen's solo works where she sings in this really gentle, compassionate, soulful way."^[6] Former Swans member Jarboe also made an appearance on the album once Gira met her after an Atlanta tour as he needed "some female vocals doing these kind of drone chords."^[6] The name of the album and title track came from Swans performing the title track multiple times instrumentally until Gira soon sang, "I see it all, I see it all," which he thought fit the music.^[9] The artwork from the album was based on a tempera wolf painting by Simon Henwood and featured Gira's teeth on the wolf.^[6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	8.3/10^[10]
Metacritic	87/100^[11]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[12]
The A.V. Club	A^[13]
The Guardian	^[14]
The Independent	^[15]
Mojo	^[16]
The New Zealand Herald	^[17]
NME	8/10^[18]
Pitchfork	9.0/10^[19]
Rolling Stone	^[20]
Spin	8/10^[21]

The Seer was met with widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 87, based on 32 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".^[11] Writing for Rolling Stone , Will Hermes called the album Swans' "grandest statement yet" and described the title track as "a season in hell, and then some."^[20] Also describing the title track, Jason Heller of The A.V. Club wrote, "It's the most harrowing, exhausting, cathartic, transcendental piece of music Gira has ever put to tape."^[13] Thom Jurek of AllMusic described The Seer as "the most sprawling, ambitious, thoughtfully conceived and tightly performed recording in the band's catalog."^[12] The Guardian 's Dave Simpson wrote that the album "won't be for everybody, but deserves to win new converts."^[14]

Several music criticism websites included The Seer on their lists of the best albums of 2012. Stereogum ranked the album at fourth in their top 50 albums.^[22] Pitchfork ranked it at fifth, with writer Stuart Berman writing that The Seer "evinces a magisterial grandeur and hypnotic allure, elevating Swans’ seedy, sewer-scraping depravity into an extravagant, cinematically scaled noise."^[23] Sputnikmusic staff member SowingSeason said that The Seer "could be the best album of Michael Gira's thirty year career" and was the best of 2012.^[24] The A.V. Club staff ranked the album seventh in their best of 2012 list and stated that "Gira did the seemingly impossible and topped [My Father], however, with the Seer".^[25] Commercially, the album peaked at number 114 on the Billboard 200 and at number 22 on the Independent Albums chart.^[26]^[27]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Michael Gira, unless noted

Disc one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Lunacy" (featuring Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker)		6:09
2.	"Mother of the World"		9:57
3.	"The Wolf"	Gira, Christoph Hahn, Thor Harris, Christopher Pravdica, Phil Puleo, Norman Westberg	1:35
4.	"The Seer"		32:14
5.	"The Seer Returns" (featuring Jarboe)	Gira, Hahn, Harris, Pravdica, Puleo, Westberg	6:17
6.	"93 Ave. Blues"		5:21
7.	"The Daughter Brings the Water"		2:40
Total length:			64:13

Disc two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Song for a Warrior" (featuring Karen O)		3:58
2.	"Avatar"	Gira, Hahn, Harris, Pravdica, Puleo, Westberg	8:51
3.	"A Piece of the Sky" (featuring Jarboe and Akron/Family)		19:10
4.	"The Apostate(*)"	Gira, Hahn, Harris, Pravdica, Puleo, Westberg	23:01
Total length:			55:00

The album featured a different track order for its vinyl release.

(*): Also known as "Apostate".

Vinyl LP track listing (Side one)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Lunacy" (featuring Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker)	6:07
2.	"The Apostate Pt. 1"	13:18

Vinyl LP track listing (Side two)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Apostate Pt. 2"	9:36
2.	"A Piece of the Sky Pt. 1" (featuring Jarboe and Akron/Family)	9:36

Vinyl LP track listing (Side three)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"A Piece of the Sky Pt. 2" (featuring Jarboe and Akron/Family)	9:30
2.	"93 Ave. B Blues"	5:22
3.	"The Daughter Brings the Water"	2:33
4.	"Song for a Warrior" (featuring Karen O)	3:58

Vinyl LP track listing (Side four)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Mother of the World"	9:57
2.	"Avatar"	8:51

Vinyl LP track listing (Side five)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Wolf"	1:35
2.	"The Seer Pt 1"	18:56

Vinyl LP track listing (Side six)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Seer Pt 2"	13:17
2.	"The Seer Returns" (featuring Jarboe)	6:15

Bonus live 2010/2011 DVD track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"No Words/No Thoughts"	18:50
2.	"Avatar"	10:36
3.	"The Apostate"	19:36
4.	"Beautiful Child (fragment)"	3:43
5.	"Jim"	8:16
6.	"Sex God Sex"	7:13
7.	"The Seer / I Crawled"	32:16

Personnel

Adapted from Gira's Young God Records website.^[7]

Swans

Michael Gira – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, Casio, sounds
Kristof Hahn – lap steel guitar, electric guitars, additional vocals
Thor Harris – drums, percussion, orchestral bells, hammered dulcimer, vibraphone, piano, clarinet, handmade violin
Christopher Pravdica – bass guitar, additional vocals, incredible handshake
Phil Puleo – drums, percussion, hammered dulcimer, additional vocals
Norman Westberg – electric guitar, additional vocals
Bill Rieflin – piano, organ, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums, percussion, Casio, synthesizer, bass guitar, additional vocals, bird idea; credited as "honorary Swan"

Guests

Karen O – lead vocals on "Song for a Warrior"
Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker – co-vocals on "Lunacy"
Jarboe – backing vocals on "The Seer Returns" and "A Piece of the Sky", voice collage on "A Piece of the Sky"
Seth Olinsky, Miles Seaton, and Dana Janssen – background vocals on "A Piece of the Sky"
Caleb Mulkerin and Colleen Kinsella – accordion, additional vocals, dulcimer, guitar, piano and other instruments on "The Seer Returns"
Sean Mackowiak – acoustic and electric mandolin, clarinet
Ben Frost – fire sounds (acoustic and synthetic) on "A Piece of the Sky"
Iain Graham – bagpipes on "The Seer"
Bruce Lamont – horns on "The Seer"
Bob Rutman – steel cello on "The Seer"
Cassis Staudt – accordion
Eszter Balint – violin
Jane Scarpantoni – cello
Kevin McMahon – additional drums on "The Seer Returns" and "Avatar", additional guitars on "Song for a Warrior" and "Avatar"
Bryce Goggin – piano on "Song for a Warrior"
Bill Tobin – Oboe on “Avatar”
Stefan Rocke – contrabassoon on "The Seer"

Technical personnel

Michael Gira – producing
Kevin McMahon – engineering, mixing
Macro and Boris – engineering assistants of Kevin McMahon
Bryce Goggin – engineering
Adam Sachs – engineering assistant of Bruce Goggin
Doug Henderson – mastering
Jamal Ruhe – pre-mastering
Simon Henwood – artwork

Charts

Chart (2012)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[28]	113
UK Albums (OCC)^[29]	167
US Billboard 200 ^[26]	114
US Independent Albums (Billboard)^[27]	22
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)^[30]	24
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)^[31]	35

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v t e Swans
Michael Gira Jarboe Algis Kizys Ted Parsons Thurston Moore Roli Mosimann Vincent Signorelli Bill Rieflin Jonathan Kane Kristof Hahn Thor Harris Christopher Pravdica Phil Puleo Paul Wallfisch Norman Westberg
Studio albums	Filth Cop Greed Holy Money Children of God The Burning World White Light from the Mouth of Infinity Love of Life The Great Annihilator Soundtracks for the Blind My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky The Seer To Be Kind The Glowing Man Leaving Meaning The Beggar
Fundraiser albums	I Am Not Insane We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head Not Here / Not Now The Gate What Is This? Is There Really a Mind?
Live albums	Public Castration Is a Good Idea Feel Good Now Anonymous Bodies in an Empty Room Real Love Omniscience Kill the Child Swans Are Dead We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head Not Here / Not Now The Gate Deliquescence
Compilation albums	Body to Body, Job to Job Children of God/World of Skin Various Failures Filth/Body to Body, Job to Job Cop/Young God Greed/Holy Money Forever Burned
EPs	Swans Young God A Screw Love Will Tear Us Apart Die Tür ist zu Oxygen
Singles	"Time Is Money (Bastard)" "New Mind" "Can't Find My Way Home" "Saved" "Paradise Is Mine"
Related articles	Discography Young God Records Angels of Light The Body Lovers / The Body Haters Cop Shoot Cop Of Cabbages and Kings Prong Sulfur Unsane World of Skin Where Does a Body End?