SWANS - MY FATHER WILL GUIDE ME UP A ROPE IN THE SKY (LP)

"1st new record since 1996! As powerful & diverse as anything MICHAEL GIRA's (ANGELS OF LIGHT) ever done. It opens with the epic, soul-crushing "No Words / No Thoughts," but quickly veers to more pastoral terrain, & on to ever-ascending monotonal grooves. A filmic-folk idyll featuring DEVENDRA BANHART on lead vocal abruptly shifts to cataclysm, & is followed by more airplane-taking-off ascensions, art songs & lethal sonic pummeling. A significant advance from where they left off & as challenging & emotionally demanding as ever." (label info)