Swans

We should have song tagging and put each individual Pink Floyd and Can song in it's own neat little box

^ The above was exactly my reasoning for voting No with regards to Post-Metal.
(that and Swans not being Metal in any sort of way of course)

Prog-related they are neither, at least I won't 'sponsor' them.

^ and people think Magma sounds like devil's music!

At least that song, sounds like some strong Avant.

The only other active member voted 'no'...so it looks like Swans are not getting on PA unless someone adds them as 'prog related'.

Swans are a band that have been on my 'listen to' list for awhile; all the talk on the webz about the new album got me interested again. From what little I knew about them I thought they were some kind of noise-rock group. Apparently they are one of those groups who change their sound every few albums. I heard the entire new album and these are my thoughts...

It would make a great fit for Post. Not only does it sound like Post but Swans are sometimes referred to as 'post rock' and have a similar musical background to a lot of the early PR bands. Generally the music is in a similar territory to the darker, more orchestrated PR stuff but also has elements of Krautrock-influenced Post as well. About the only tracks that are not very post-y IMO would be "The Seer Returns" which sounds like TMV at their most bluesy, and the song with Karen O on vocals. Even that noisy, avant track sounds like GYBE.

OK, now that's all fine and dandy but here's the problem: currently only two of the four members of the PR team have been voting/posting. As it stands, a new suggestion needs three 'yes' votes. Not only Swans but every artist that is being suggested to the team will not be added until they can get a third 'yes' vote. So, I really don't know what's going to happen.

Great album, though. 

I have only just begun my journey with this band - meaning, I own some 5 albums by them, but as I hear it, what really would qualify them for inclusion here on PA, surely would be the most recent releases, where I for one hear a lot of post-rock. The thing is, it's pretty much their own concoction of it no less. Unlike Dean, I tend to hear it as something unequivocally progressive.
It doesn't sound like anything other in terms of post-rock, and that has a lot to do with the sombre and long drawn out atmospheres. Krautrock has been suggested, and maybe there is something in these vast atmospherics, I still think post fits better.
Anywho, the thing is - is a few (or one) album(s) enough, when the artists have a huge discography behind them that has little to do with PA. If so, where are The Scorpions? Or Serge Gainsbourg?
We either need that album tagging thing - allowing us to enter individual progressive outings, or else we have to go through a lot of those "Are Swans really prog?" Threads...

It's only logical that Swans should be in the database, like seriously.

Post-Rock? I guess.

Put in a resounding 'NO' this morning but hadn't seen this thread nor heard The Seer yet.

Intriguing listen, being largely instrumental it brings the music more to the fore then any other Swans album.
Not sure though this one album is Prog enough to support inclusion of this band.
Not that the 'indie' label does them any justice of course...

I've not heard everything they've done but I'd definitely agree that The Seer is the most progressive I've heard from them, not sure where they would fit on PA, though.

And I still like Filth more :P