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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
This is how I felt about the Sonic Nurse tour. Bludgeoned to death by guitars.. Nothing like it. I would LOVE to see Swans tour The Seer or this new record, it would be like taking mushrooms, too many in fact.
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Wow. Yeah- I agree. Of all the times I saw SY, I don't think they were ever as heavy as they were on the Nurse tour. They have always been more of a dynamically multipolar band, rather than a force of sheer volume. It's one of the reasons their records still sound fresh and new. But during the SN tour they sounded like a united front of calculated feedback and noise, cushioning the melodies and pretty much never letting up even on the slower, lighter tracks.
I remember my friends and I talking about how "Unmade Bed" was oddly one of the more ear bleeding songs in their set. It didn't sound like a break or a sonic reprieve like it does on the album. It sounded like what I imagine drowning "sounds" like. The vocals stayed just present enough to keep things in place, but below them it was like a monsoon was flooding from the speakers.
I thought maybe this was an isolated incident.