The album is defined by the quality, craftsmanship, and epic-ness we’ve come to expect.
No matter how maddening and challenging the album can be, the songwriting and musicianship is impressive.
The album is a piece of blood-spattered Americana, a haunted-house version of the fabled American dream.
Clocking in at nearly two hours, the album is a chock-a-block song cycle stuffed with concepts, textures, and ideas.
Macklemore, the National, Swans, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Action Bronson, & Kacey Musgraves.
Swans’s The Seer has a pretty alien configuration for an album.
The album signals the sharp return of a group that would like you to pretend they never left.