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Swans return with a double CD edition of ‘Birthing’, the latest album, developed over the course of a yearlong 2023-2024 tour. Refined through relentless improvisation and live performance, as well as newly composed studio pieces, ‘Birthing’ is a testament to Michael Gira’s uncompromising sonic vision. Beginning as skeletal acoustic compositions, the songs were gradually expanded and transformed in the studio with longtime live members and collaborators. 

Emerging out of Dearborn, Michigan, this five-piece deal in pure chaos and catharsis - fiery live shows, razor-sharp intensity, and a sound that’s as incendiary as it is brutally tight. Their name reflects their fixation on identity, desperation, and survival under late capitalism. Attempted Martyr was written in the midst of global and personal turmoil, capturing the zeitgeist of a world unraveling. A loose concept record, it chronicles the rise and fall of a doomed zealot whose pursuit of holy vengeance spirals into a psychotic orgy of violence, greed, and lust. It’s dense, turbulent, and charged with blaring Middle Eastern, African and East Asian influences - all scorched into shape by producer Chris Koltay (The Armed, Mdou Moctar).

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Amerikanska post-punk bandet Swans med en återutgivning av albumet 'The Seer' från<br/>2012. Det två timmar långa albumet spelades in i Berlin och New York och blev mycket hyllat av kritiker världen över. Sånginsatser från bland annat Yeah Yeah Yeah sångaren Karen O, Alan Sparhawk och Mimi Parker från 'Low', medlemmar från Akron/Family, Ben Frost, Grasshopper från Mercury Rev samt tidigare Swans medlemmen Jarboe gör albumet dynamiskt och spännande och värt att hyllas ännu en gång.

Swans&rsquo; second live album Feel Good Now is available on vinyl for the first time since its original limited edition release in 1988, via Mute / Young God Records.Feel Good Now is a collection of live recordings from their 1987 European tour, recorded by the band&#039;s sound engineer on a Sony Professional Walkman, with many of the tracks being from their album Children of God, which was released the same year.This follows the re-release of their first live album Public Castration Is a Good Idea and their brand new album The Beggar, released in June 2023. Led by Michael Gira, Swans formed in 1982 and have produced a series of diverse albums both before their disbandment in 1997 and after their reformation in 2010. During this time Swans have made their mark as masters of their craft and are an influential band for countless experimental and post-rock acts.