Holy Money is the fourth studio album by the New York No Wave band Swans. The album was recorded in the same sessions as A Screw and Greed. It was later reissued on CD with the 3 tracks from the A Screw and then again with Greed and then once again with Greed, Cop, and Young God. It is considered by many to be one of their most important and influential albums.
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- Holy Money is the fourth studio album by the New York No Wave band Swans. The album was recorded in the same sessions as A Screw and Greed. It was later reissued on CD with the 3 tracks from the A Screw and then again with Greed and then once again with Greed, Cop, and Young God. It is considered by many to be one of their most important and influential albums. When Swans' sound was at its most calculatedly mechanistic and brutally direct - from 1983 to 1986 - bandleader/vocalist Michael Gira focused on exorcising cultural/linguistic/religious demons within the troupe's unprecedented deconstruction of musical form to its essence of repetition. Following the controlled crawl of the Swans' 1983 debut album, Filth, the Cop and Young God series added more meat to its death-knell rock by fleshing out Norman Westberg's groaning guitar. Alongside Gira's bleak chants, the lugubrious tunes and methodical drumming continue to pile atop one another. As the musical tension builds, Gira screams lines like, "I need you more than I hate myself!" The brooding yet typically brutal material from the Greed/Holy Money sessions are the first appearance of keyboardist/vocalist Jarboe (who would remain in the band until their first breakup in 1998) and an expanded three-drummer rhythm section to the dissected structures that refuse to accumulate, but instead repeat a hegemonic order where power seeks only to stratify. While all the songs remain aggressive and obstinate, Jarboe's chilling vocal moan and the slammed piano chords of "You Need Me" strongly evince the indignities exchanged between one person and another: "I'm sorry, I need you/I am your only friend. " Upon release, critical reception was fairly positive. People Magazine stated: On the opening cut of Holy Money, A Hanging, lifeless voices chant in harmony, raising specters of a slave gang in hell as vicious drumbeats and gongs sound like some monstrous taskmaster. Over it all lead singer M. Gira, singing so low and slowly he sounds like he's on the wrong speed, delivers such lyrics as "Dear God in heaven... I'll hang for you"... Few bands rival the SWANS when it comes to black humor... then again, some days you just have to get it out of your system.
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