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January 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 118: The Young Gods – “L’eau Rouge (The Red Water)”

You arrive at The Young Gods due to name-drops and connections including David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails and Swans – and maybe they sound, at least a little bit anyway, like all three of those artists combined. Okay, you might have arrived at them back in the day without being prompted but for me it […]
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March 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Cold Sweat Music: Ghastly-Wonderful Stuff…

Scott Walker’s, Bish Bosch – I could barely make sense of it. But I love it.  It was late. I was up, alone, headphones in, checking out the album – all I’d had to go on previously was this clip. And that’s the most energetic/lively piece on the album. The rest of it has the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bish Bosch, Cold Sweat, Cold Sweat Music, Cold Sweat Music: Ghastly-Wonderful Stuff…, Ghastly-Wonderful, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Scott Walker, Swans, The Final Cut, The Seer, The Wall, Tommy ·

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July 23, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Swans: Not Here/Not Now

Swans Not Here/Not Now Young God Oh shit, I wouldn’t have a clue how to write about Swans – particularly the recent albums. I loved The Seer – well, I was frightened by it, intrigued, I felt like it pulverised me but in the end it was love, yes. And yet I did not write […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Live, Live Album, Melvins, Michael Gira, Not Here, Not Here/Not Now, Not Now, Scott Walker, Sonic Youth, Swans, The Seer, To Be Kind ·

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August 29, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Lustmord: The Word As Power

Lustmord The Word As Power Blackest Ever Black As Lustmord Brian Williams has created a strain of industrial and dark ambient music that creeps along like a horror soundtrack one minute, then slowly, surely, it opens itself up – unfolding – to reveal the beauty (and still the darkness) of sublime classical music, of minimalism, […]
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