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Old 08-22-2016, 12:34 PM   #61
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Is it just me or did her lyrics change in terms of being more poignant and more opaque at the same time? I seem to see a difference to Sea Sew and Passenger, the lyrics seem to be shorter and, of course, darker and less playful. But I like it, and I think there's not one bad song on At Swim! Especially like Ora and can't stop listening to it! :-D
Undoubtably a darker album... but genuinely stunning.

My favs at the moment:
Snow, Fall, Ora, Tender and We, The Drowned. Love Funeral Suit as well.
(That's about half the album )
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Old 08-22-2016, 09:23 PM   #62
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here's my little review track by track

fall - i excepted the whole album would be songs like this one, which wouldn't bother since fall is one of my favorites. love the lyrics in this one, make you put a lot of thoughts in deciphering the meaning..

prayer for the dying - i've never clicked with this one, i find it too draggy(??). love the harmony on the second half of the chorus though.

snow - reminds me of paper house. love the chorus. a nice song to pretend to be in its video while driving in a backseat of a car while it's snowing.

lo - surprising. didn't expect lisa's lyrics to have a repeating line. chorus is catchy but i can't really tell what are the lyrics. love the yoo oooooo part.

undertow - absolute fav. first piano riff makes me think of teeth's intro and then BOOM, synth. and after that the chorus with mandolin and banjo and it really reminds me of braille. the 'i wanna flo o o o o oat' line is forever stuck in my head.

ora - beautiful. 'moon pulling the water 'round and me to you'. beautiful. and also there's a background noise on one part and it's what she talked about in an interview when she said she liked that the certain artist had lots of background noises.

we, the drowned - exciting. it just builds up till "and we sing and we sing and we siiiiiing" and after that part it's magic. "like thiiis like thiiis" is lisa's most powerful singing ever and i enjoy every part of it. also TONS of amazing harmonies.

anahorish - harmonies. harmonies. harmonies. the lullaby of the album.

tender - sea sew on steroids. good but certainly not fav. love the "who o o o o o came up swinging every morning through it all" line

funeral suit - was my favourite before the album was released but i can't get accustomed to the new timing. love the drums though.

barton - people don't seem to like this one but i adore it. the dissonance and her vibrato is so soothing. also i never expected that lisa would have "crocodile" in her song. love the trippy singing and the electronic beat. very björkish in my opinion. perfect ending track with that weeeoooooh weeeeoh ending.

sorry for the long post .
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Old 08-22-2016, 09:36 PM   #63
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I'm officially obsessed with this album. Sounds like I'm not the only one! I'm listening to it nonstop because it gets me into a very soothing head space. She's always been very poetic and clever with words. Other than the odd effects in Prayer for the Dying, I think every song is perfect. I ordered the CD, so I should have the lyrics soon enough.

I don't think it's her accent that makes her lyrics hard to understand. I think she gets caught up with the sound and emotion of the word/song and that changes the pronunciation and renders it unrecognizable.
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Old 08-22-2016, 10:23 PM   #64
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I really like this album. my faves atm are We, The Drowned and Snow
The only track I skip is Anahorish. sorry, Lisa
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Old 08-23-2016, 08:09 AM   #65
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just realised Ora/We The Drowned = perfect song sequence!!!!!!

the songs I didn't know before the release (Barton, Undertow and Tender) haven't clicked yet, maybe I need the lyrics,

for me, Prayer is still the weakest link, you shouldn't put such a slow and dragged song as track 2, kinda kills the flow, Barton maybe will click but so far is my 2nd least favourite

my vinyl hasn't arrived yet and is driving me crazy, damn post office
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Old 08-23-2016, 07:49 PM   #66
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So there was a soft knock at my window this morning, and it was the postman !!!

Finally !!!

So hmmm currently unavailable because of reason N°47 : #AtSwoon



See you in a few days when I land back on earth, if I do...

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Old 08-25-2016, 08:53 AM   #67
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Yeah it has (handwritten) lyrics, but I can't scan them now cause I'm away from home - sorry!
i finally got my copy. love the handwriting!

you all know already that i´m not especially good at scanning but i ca try again if it´s fine for me to post them.
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Old 08-25-2016, 09:33 PM   #68
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Undertow and Tender are very sweet. Barton has grown on me, but it took a while. Love Funeral Suit now more than in the beginning. I still can't get into Prayer, but I read she wrote it for a friend who lost a spouse. If I got that message in a sympathy card, I would be very moved. Having the lyrics now really helps. Now I'll be a nerdy scholar and try to interpret all the line and hidden subtext. If someone doesn't beat me to it, I'll scan it when I'm back at work tomorrow.

I like that she turned the poem Anahorish into a song. I haven't heard of many musicians doing that, but my music interests are very limited. Songs are essentially poems, in my opinion. I would love it if someone would sing Neruda!
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Old 08-27-2016, 06:09 PM   #69
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Please, can someone upload the lyrics of the "Lo", "Funeral Suit" and "We the Drowned"? I know there's some people tried on Genius page, but I'm still not sure about that. Sadly, the album still don't arrive to South America, 'cause there's no stock.

If you do not fully understand the lyrics, you'll understand that for those who do not speak English is even more difficult, haha.

I'd be really grateful.
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Old 08-27-2016, 09:40 PM   #70
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Please, can someone upload the lyrics of the "Lo", "Funeral Suit" and "We the Drowned"?
Lo

Every night of late
I'm wide awake
because I feel
that every last mistake
that I have made
has me in pieces

I smile to your face
(and it is)
a lie just the same
(as if I)
I washed it all away
(and I showed)
my empty plate

With every hour that passes
I try to tell myself
what I know
that nights are only ashes
of days gone by burned
black and broken

I wear them on my skin
ahead when I begin
to run I chase until it follows

///

Funeral Suit

He came by in his funeral suit
in an open hearted shade of blue
asked me what I like to do
on a July evening

To Bermondsey or to Shoreditch
I said I don't know which is which
the night a thread for him to stitch
for me, the unbelieving

In the end we just stay in
and gesture with our mugs of gin
dance around this borrowed kitchen
a stop and start dumb show

I am a cold filament
we advance in tender increments
between the past and future tense
test the weight of both

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We, The Drowned

We, the drowned
hold our hollow hearted ground
til we swallow ourselves down
again

We, the ashes
we spent our days like matches
and burned ourselves as black as
the end

We know not the fire in which we burn
but we sing and we sing
and the flames grow higher
we read not the pages which we turn
but we sing and we sing and we sing

We, the wrong
we the sewn up and long gone
were before and all along
like this

We, the drowned
the lost and found out

We are all finished again

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Old 08-27-2016, 10:00 PM   #71
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Have people gotten their physical copy yet? It's been over a week now I still don't have it. I thought the point of pre-ordering was to get the album on the day of release. Good thing I opted for the digital copy as well...
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Old 08-28-2016, 03:20 AM   #72
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Thank you so much, Hannah!
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Old 08-28-2016, 05:49 AM   #73
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So does anyone have a clear favourite yet? I think "We, The Drowned" takes the crown for me.
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Old 08-28-2016, 12:36 PM   #74
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Have people gotten their physical copy yet? It's been over a week now I still don't have it. I thought the point of pre-ordering was to get the album on the day of release. Good thing I opted for the digital copy as well...
I got mine on Friday, one week after release day. I was a little disappointed I didn't get it in time, but after five years of waiting, what's one more week?
The album sure was worth the wait :-D
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Old 08-28-2016, 02:54 PM   #75
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I think it's most the post offices fault than the label's
for me still
1 Ora
2 We the drowned
3 Fall
the new new ones have not clicker yet...
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Old 08-28-2016, 06:11 PM   #76
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So does anyone have a clear favourite yet? I think "We, The Drowned" takes the crown for me.
I find it really hard to decide, I'd say Fall, We the Drowned and Ora share the first place ;-)
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