“Front page photo by Zoran Orlic
Listen close enough to Swans' titanic album from last year, The Seer, and you can hear the vocal contributions of Low's Mimi Parker (her partner and bandmate Alan Sparhawk is on the album, too). Parker's voice is a trembling, gorgeous thing of power, tonally about a million light years from Michael Gira's incantory menace-- but her main act and Swans do share a sens”