The Seer, the new album from reconstituted NY postpunk drone-gods Swans, is a masterpiece of insane heaviness: 10 songs spread out over two hours, full of yelps and screeches and tribal thuds and cathartic builds and general evil. Closing track "The Apostate" is 23 minutes of clanging and banging, and the heaviest headfuck you will hear all day. Hear it ...