Filth

Critic Score
Based on 3 reviews
1983 Ratings: #145 / 208
User Score
1983 Ratings: #241
May 27, 1983 / Release Date
LP / Format
Neutral / Label
Michael GiraWriter
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Critic Reviews

75
Spectrum Culture
A ferocity that overcomes the unavoidable thinness of the no-budget production.
60
AllMusic
Norman Westberg's guitar work has a definite power to it, and occasional studio manipulations like the chopped-up/sped-up "Freak" keep things interesting, but by the end it all gets a bit much. In small doses, though, it's great, and early Swans really is like little else on the planet before or since.
30
Rolling Stone

Filth is loud and bottom heavy, but not quite as lugubrious as Greed or Holy Money.

blondeMushroom
NR

yo how tf did they get anthony fantano on the cover

PipePanic
89

This is it folks. I had to stop it multiple times because I was about to break down in tears. This might be the new 'heaviest' album to beat. And I do mean beat.

I feel like listening to this album is the equivalent of Michael Gira coming to my house with a baseball bat, smacking me over 50 times, stomping on my face, pulling out my teeth, breaking my legs, killing my pets, pissing on my furniture, cutting my shoe lasses, burning my house down and fucking my mother all at the same time. And I ... read more

KandZ
41

โœจ๐™Ž๐™’๐˜ผ๐™‰๐™Ž ๐˜ฟ๐™€๐™€๐™‹ ๐˜ฟ๐™„๐™‘๐™€ #01โœจ

โ—They should use those gnawers in a toothpaste commercial, they would make millions.

๐Ÿ’ญOh my god, kandz finally decided to listen to Swans? Hooray!
This was a tough choice to make on my end, because every time I looked in the mirror, I saw Swans... Every time I ate Alphabet Soup, the letters would align perfectly for me to spell out Swans... Every time I opened Spotify, I saw Swans... Every time I took a dump, the water ... read more

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JID_Glazer
72

1/17 Swans dive:
This was a great record but i think the swans got a lot more to offer.

XytleTachyon
68

Telling me to flex my muscles damn well knowing i’m built like tung tung tung sahurโœŒ๏ธ

kvts
62

it was alright but it was very incoherent at times, both musically and lyrically. didn't really like it

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