Intensive journey through the night

No question this two-hour double album is one tough cookie. Monumental (Only the title track is about thirty minutes), disturbing, radical, fascinating, apocalyptic and full of beauty, these are all features (and more) that come to the hearing of this monster to mind. Inventory the reunion album "My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky" by 2010, more or less from classical songs, so it's on "The Seer" often impressive sound experiments with the ingredients Industrial, drone, folk, rock, post-punk (the word "post" can feel free to generously distributed between the different styles) and what I still know everything. It is lavished with a variety of sounds and noises, rhythms and melody shreds. Brutality alternates with beauty (Karen O. sings "Song For A Warrior"), nightmarish soundscapes with more traditional song structures.

"The Seer" truly can not be easily consumed in passing. There is also no record for every day. It's definitely an album from which you speak and which will reverberate long. On which there is always something to discover. An album polarizes. Quite simply great art.

Even if one or the other spot opens up not just from the beginning and perhaps can not be heard often, this album is a very Impressive late work of men / women to Michael Gira.