Swans - BirthingSwans return with Birthing, the latest album, developed over the course of a year long 2023 2024 tour. Birthing is released via Mute and Young God Records. Refined through relentless improvisation and live performance, as well as newly composed studio pieces, Birthing is a testament to Michael Giras uncompromising sonic vision. Beginning as skeletal acoustic compositions, the songs were gradually expanded and transformed in the studio with longtime

Summerlong was mixed by John McEntire (Stereolab

This powerful new album is a high concept collage of retro-futurist science-fiction music

It’s a post-‘Paradise City’ map of the American way

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Then coping with how this inevitably leads to the dissolution of the relationship

A consummate storyteller

Leo Takami

while the reprise version features Eric Clapton on lead guitar

Sonically constructed to capture the feeling of a hip-hop record (including production contribution from Kenny Beats)

The title track

What's He Building

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