Swans

Swans – To Be Kind (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 1, 2023 · Comments off

Swans, led by Michael Gira, formed in 1982 and, after disbanding in 1997, returned with the critically acclaimed albums ‘My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky’ (2010) and 2012’s ‘The Seer’. 2014’s highly anticipated new album ‘To Be Kind’ is released on multiple formats, including a deluxe CD/DVD set, standard double CD, digital download and a triple vinyl set with digital download. The album featues special guests include St. Vincent, Cold Specks, Little Annie and Bill Rieflin.

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Swans – The Glowing Man (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 1, 2023 · Comments off

Fourteenth and self-declared final studio album from Michael Gira and co. finally arrives in a heat haze of intensity and durational power. Swans have never done small. The Glowing Man clocks in at a vinyl bothering two hours, and not a note is wasted. Songs range from primordial rants through the netherworld, threatening Gothic blues (underpinned by that familiar Gira growl), epic 20minute+ slabs of alt-rock, sunset orange psychedelia, and a beautifully violent a reimagining of Sonic Youth’s ‘The World Looks Red’. This is Swans at their very best; a provocative trip into this most singular of bands. If this is to be the last album under this lineup, it is a fitting send-off.

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Swans – Leaving Meaning (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Michael Gira’s Swans have announced a new album, Leaving Meaning, due out on October 25. It’s Swans’ 15th studio album and their first since 2016’s The Glowing Man.

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Swans – Great Annihilator (Remastered 2017) (1995/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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SWANS have announced a remastered reissue of their ninth studio album, The Great Annihilator on Mute.

The album was entirely remastered by Doug Henderson, but only after Bill Rieflin (“honorary Swan“a revelation of great sonic effect”. Talking about the recording, Gira said “I lived in a tent in a mosquito infested studio right next to Cabrini Green in Chicago for what (?) something like 3 months, rarely leaving. Band members and Jarboe and Bill Rieflin etc came and went, and somehow we crafted this thing into what it became.”

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Swans – Children of God (1987/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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SWANS have announced a remastered reissue of Children of God on 13 November 2020 via Mute / Young God Records. The album, originally released on Product Inc. (a subsidiary of Mute) in 1987 will be available on vinyl in its original packaging for the first time since that release and both the CD and vinyl issues will include the live album, Feel Good Now, recorded on the 1987 Children of God European tour.

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Swans – The Beggar (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 1, 2023 · Comments off

The Beggar was written and produced by founding member Michael Gira and features contributions from recent and former Swans members, members of Angels Of Light, as well as guest Swan Ben Frost. Following 2019’s leaving meaning, the album emerged from the 2020 lockdown with Michael explaining, “after numerous pandemic-induced cancellations of tours for the previous Swans album leaving meaning, and an apparent bottomless pit of waiting, waiting, waiting, and the strange disorientation that came with this sudden but interminable forced isolation I decided it was time to write songs for a new Swans album and forget about everything else. They came relatively easily, always informed by the suspicion that these could be my last. When I finally was able to travel, songs in hand, to Berlin to work with my friends recording this record, the feeling was akin to the moment in The Wizard of Oz when the film changes from Black and White to Color. Now I’m feeling quite optimistic. My favourite color is pink. I hope you enjoy the album.”

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