02.  (01/2).  The Seer  - SWANS     «... Frontman  Michael Gira described the album as taking "30 years to make.  It's the culmination of every previous Swans album as well as any  other music I've ever made, been involved in or imagined. But it's  unfinished, like the songs themselves. It's one frame in a reel. The  frames blur, blend and will eventually fade.''    Describing the songwriting process, Gira said, "The songs began  on an acoustic guitar, then were fleshed out with (invaluable) help  from my friends, then were further tortured and seduced in the  studio, and now they await further cannibalism and force-feeding as  we prepare to perform some of them live, at which point they'll  mutate further, endlessly, or perhaps be discarded for a while."   At nearly two hours, The Seer  is over twice as long as its predecessor, My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky . The album also features many drone  elements, present in the title t...