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Turn Loose The Swans [Original recording reissued]

My Dying Bride Audio CD
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (1 Jan 2013)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording reissued
  • Label: Peaceville
  • ASIN: B0000AINGK
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 70,366 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Sear Me MCMXC III
2. Your River
3. The Songless Bird
4. The Snow In My Hand
5. The Crown Of Sympathy
6. Turn Loose The Swans
7. Black God
8. Le Cerf Malade (Bonus Track)
9. Transcending (Into The Exquisite) (Bonus Track)
10. Your Shameful Heaven (Live) (Bonus Track)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The album that made MDB something more. 23 Mar 2004
By T. O
Format:Audio CD
Most MDB fans will swear to this album..and with good reason.
It has a dark feel throughout that really still to this day is something completely special. The use of violin here is of course essential to the darkness and agony MDB portrays.
Every MDB fan has this album...really, you can't call yourself a fan and not own this album. It does sound silly, but if you know MDB you know it is not.
Sear me, Your river, Crown of sympathy, Black God and Turn loose the swans are just tracks that to me are doom metal history...even if two of those songs doesn't involve guitars or metal of any kind. It's the wholeness of this album that just makes this album so utterly dark heavy heavenly beautiful and ugly at the same time. Cause MDB can sound wretched and agonizing in so many ways...this is where MDB became My Dying Bride to me. This is a milestone in doom metal or dark metal ..whatever you want to call it. Poetic and darkly agonizing. Their latest album Songs of darkness words of light is btw the perfect follow up to this album...only without the violin. They actually made an album just as dark without the violin. Who would have thought?
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Album Ever. 12 Nov 2004
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
When I bought this album I had no idea what to expect, my natural genre of choice was (and still is) punk and I had been amazed at the length of the songs on the sleeve but strong recomendations had convinced me to buy this. When I turned on the c.d player I was gobsmacked. The opener Sear Me was like nothing I had ever heard before, the distant sorrowful baroque type instrument the only accompaniment to Aaron's brilliant vocals. No catchy chorus, no solos just vocals and baroque. To this day no song has had the same emotional impact on me as this one, from there on the album never slips, each song as brilliant as the next right until the last second.

Its very rare to find a band capable of creating an album whose brilliant goes beyond it's genre. Anyone, whether they listen to Mozart or Bad Brains should love this album so long as they can appreciate great music.

Highlights:
Sear Me
Your River
Crown of Sympathy
Black God

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great gothic masterpiece 30 Jan 2006
By Behan
Format:Audio CD
What is it about Yorkshire that inspires such gloom?
Despite stiff competition from Paradise Lost's immense "Gothic," and Anathema's "The Silent Enigma", this record is certainly the pinnacle of 90's Doomdeath; this scene is probably now more familiar as the Gothic Metal genre.
This record will appeal to a fan of MDB's other albums or the early work of the "softer" Gothic artists mentioned before and aped by more commercial female-fronted acts. Fans of Doom or dirgey Black Metal may also find the dismal and downbeat pace, mixed with deathly guitar tone inviting. Those who enjoy orchestral BM such as Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth fans will be attracted to the orchestral feeling and use of various voices, not to mention darkly romantic themes.
What to expect:
1) A mixture of cracked-voice singing, muttering and deathly growls,
2) Slow, heavy riffs with a great sense of (melo)drama, inbuing the whole affair with a very profound sadness,
3) Violin! Martin augments the guitar riffs either with ethereal sighs or by adding a shrill note of panic to the proceedings. Essentially, you get four very typical MDB tunes "You River" "The Snow in my Hand" the brilliant "The crown of Sympathy" and the majestic and frightening title track. These are sandwiched between slightly more experimental fare "Sear Me 1993" and "Black God" which may or may not appeal on a first listen, but are essential to the feel of the LP.
Production-values-wise, this isn't perfect, and it is certainly a record of its time, but even considering this, "TLTS" is an essential classic.
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