Soundtracks For The Blind
by Swans
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Swans bestography
Soundtracks For The Blind is ranked 2nd best out of 39 albums by Swans on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Swans is To Be Kind which is ranked number 267 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,069.
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Soundtracks For The Blind track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 05/15/2026 10:19 |  Milhaud | 2,060 | 71/100 | |
| 04/29/2026 05:28 | matterhornrider | 5,082 | 81/100 | |
| 04/29/2026 02:19 | oilnoilnoilnoil | 270 | 78/100 | |
| 04/28/2026 05:32 | ASOARE | 2,289 | 76/100 | |
| 03/10/2026 04:41 | martintho | 4,714 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 82.9/100, a mean average of 81.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.2.
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doombringer 03/18/2025 13:39 | #308094
The more often you listen to this album , the more addicted you get . I'm the living proof . : P
A great early record for Swans that is probably the most dark and mysterious album they have ever created. This is because the music on here is closer to post rock than their later releases which are more near the experimental rock sort of genre. This leads to a tense and atmospheric listen with the group creating an amazing environment for us. Where they shine, as they always do, is on the longer tracks with The Final Sacrifice, The Sound and Helpless Child being the peak of the record and the latter being amongst the greatest ever Swans songs. Swans are just the masters of longer songs as they have this ability to make them so engaging and complex that they become so rewarding to listen to. However, this release is held back by the shorter songs. There is quite a few of them on here and they just feel pointless for the most part and a lot of them could be skipped. I am someone who loves the fact that Swans albums are extremely long but when they have songs like this that continuously take me out of the music it makes the record drag and feel elongated. Overall, I personally prefer their more experimental albums that came later in their career but this is still great and I can easily see why people would rank it so highly as its full of a lot of high quality moments.
This band and this album are not first listen lovable, but when it hits you, it hits you veeeeeeeeeery hard
One of the most interesting, beautiful, and scariest albums of all time.
Cargusbralem 12/01/2021 22:41 | #276961
Gigantic sound, gigantic album
Timestarter 08/31/2020 10:54 | #257601
Fav. Tracks:
-Red Velvet Corridor
-I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull
-Helpless Child
-The Beautiful Days
-Volcano
-All Lined Up
-Animus
-The Sound
-YRP
-The Final Sacrifice
-YRP 2
-Surrogate Drone
StefanR10 06/28/2020 04:07 | #254653
Interesting music I like to hear this. Some songs are not so good but other songs are immense good. Very good I mark this as favorable. Very recommended to listen.
This was powerful. It felt like all the music I have ever listened to had been in preparation for this arresting sonic experience, and I can’t wait to truly get to know this record, a feeling that doesn’t happen often when you’re always trying to listen to new stuff. A true contemporary epic!
DriftingOrpheus 03/30/2020 23:23 | #249319
Even though this may not stand up to wonderful trio of albums Swans crafted in the 2010's, it still is a polarizing and infinitely interesting piece of work that never loses its luster, instead it evolves with each listen.
AvalancheGrips 09/17/2019 22:24 | #242740
The first half is perfect and the second half is almost perfect. When climate change hits, I'm blasting this album.
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