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Birthing Live Press Roudup
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UK BLAUE ROSEN - https://blaue-rosen.com/mobile/live-review-swans-at-electric-brixton-2025/ FIGHTING BOREDOM - https://fighting-boredom.co.uk/live-review/swans-jessica-moss-leeds-live-review/ FREQ - https://freq.org.uk/reviews/swans-jessica-moss-live-at-brixton-electric/ THE YORKSHIRE POST - https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/gig-review-swans-at-project-house-leeds-5397419 LOUDER THAN WAR, https://louderthanwar.com/swans-michael-gira-and-kristof-hahn-earth-london-live-review/#google_vignette JOYZINE - https://joyzine.org/2025/11/13/live-review-swans-and-jessica-moss-at-electric-brixton-london/ POST PUNK - https://postpunk.co.uk/swans-electric-brixton-london THE GRYPHON - https://www.thegryphon.co.uk/2025/11/13/swans-at-project-house-gig-review/ THE BOAR - https://theboar.org/2025/11/swans-london-live-review/ ITALY LOUDD – https://www.loudd.it/recensione/swans-04-11-2025-auditorium-milano/live-report_10429 LONG LIVE ROCK ’N ROLL – https://www.longliverocknroll.it/swans-le-foto-del-concerto-allauditorium-di-milano-milano-04-11-2025/ GERMANY BEATS PER MINUTE - https://beatsperminute.com/live-review-swans-at-festaal-kreuzberg-berlin-27-november-2025/ MUSIK BLOG - https://www.musikblog.de/2025/10/swans-live-im-werk-2-leipzig/ BERLINER ZEITUNG - https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergnuegen/musik/experimental-rock-band-swans-im-festsaal-kreuzberg-das-unendlich-schoene-ende-der-krach-magier-li.10007956 SWEDEN DAGENS NYHETER - https://www.dn.se/kultur/hypnotiskt-finstamt-och-kottigt-med-swans-pa-slaktkyrkan/ HYMM - https://hymn.se/2025/11/20/swans-pa-vega-ett-vardigt-avslut-pa-big-sound-eran/ DENMARK GAFFA - https://gaffa.dk/anmeldelser/2025/november/koncerter/swans-store-vega-181125/ NORWAY DISHARMONI - https://www.disharmoni.no/overveldende-swans/ ETERNAL TERROR - https://eternal-terror.com/2025/11/20/swans-live-at-vulkan-arena-november-2025/ US STAGE STORIES MAGAZINE - https://www.stagestoriesmusicmagazine.com/featured-articles/swans SLANT MAGAZINE - https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/swans-brooklyn-steel-live-review/ GLIDE MAGAZINE - https://glidemagazine.com/318145/swans-ugly-temperaments-create-profound-statements-at-chicagos-metro-show-review/ PARKLIFE DC - https://parklifedc.com/2025/09/10/live-review-swans-howard-theatre-9-5-25/ MUSIC FIENDS - https://www.musicfiends.com/concert-review-photos-swans-turn-dallas-granada-theater-into-a-sonic-inferno/ PUNK NEWS - https://www.punknews.org/review/18115/swans-annie-anxiety-live-in-philadelphia...
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MUSIC OHM BIRTHING ALBUM REVIEW
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MUSIC OHM BIRTHING REVIEW - https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/swans-birthing ...
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Birthing Press Roundup
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Birthing Press Roundup PopMatters - The 20 Best Experimental Albums of 2025 https://www.popmatters.com/best-experimental-albums-2025 UNCUT, *8/10- GUARDIAN MAGAZINE - WHERE POST ROCK DWELLS - https://wherepostrockdwells.com/swans-birthing/ POP MATTERS - https://www.popmatters.com/swans-birthing-review ALL MUSIC - https://www.allmusic.com/album/birthing-mw0004473549#userReviews POST TRASH - https://post-trash.com/news/2025/6/5/swans-birthing-album-review CULT FOLLOWING - https://cultfollowing.co.uk/2025/06/10/swans-birthing-review/ GOD IS IN THE TV ZINE - https://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/06/04/swans-birthing-mute/ LE CANAL AUDITIF (FRANCE) - https://lecanalauditif.ca/actualites/5-nouveaux-albums-ecouter-30-mai-2025 MOWNO (FRANCE) weekly selection -https://www.instagram.com/p/DKROPjKR9C7/utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== NEW NOISE (FRANCE) - https://www.noisemag.net/swans-nouvel-album-premier-extrait-en-ecoute-3 GOUTE MES DISQUES (FRANCE) - https://www.goutemesdisques.com/accueil/ GAFFA (SWEDEN) - https://gaffa.se/recensioner/2025/maj/album/swans-birthing-far-en-att-ifragasatta-vad-musik-faktiskt-ar/”Swan's seventeenth studio album Birthing makes one question what music actually is. Is it just sound, does it have to be beautiful sound, is it a feeling? Beautiful ambient background sounds performed behind a deep narrative voice that in a vacuum, but as soon as the drums start playing it becomes like a cacophony in true progressive rock spirit, with elements of several subcategories.” KULT MAGASIN (SWEDEN) included “Red Yellow” in their ”Weekly Best” Spotify playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Hu2rwXQQ3RnlkSDlqWoXG?si=48d338837ec44114 METAL CENTRAL (SWEDEN) - https://www.metalcentral.net/nyheter/31588-swans-slapper-ny-platta PULS (NORWAY) - https://www.puls.no/20173.html KAAOSZINE (FINLAND) - https://kaaoszine.fi/swans-julkaisee-17-studioalbuminsa-toukokuussa/ HYMN (SWEDEN) - https://hymn.se/2025/02/28/redaktionens-favoriter-v-9-10/“If there's any band that can release a single in 19 minutes, it's Michael Gira and his Swans. The band announces the new album Birthing and releases the first sample "I Am a Tower", which can......
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Swans’ Michael Gira and Kristof Hahn: EartH, London – Live Review
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https://louderthanwar.com/swans-michael-gira-and-kristof-hahn-earth-london-live-review/ Michael Gira and Kristof HahnEartH, London17th April 2025 Last Thursday saw Swans’ Michael Gira and Kristof Hahn set down in London’s iconic EartH midway through their European tour for a rare performance of upcoming material and selected older works. Known by many for a skull-crushing volume which would frequently distress audiences and crew alike, Gira has taken to bridging full-band tours with more intimate, stripped-back performances. This show, however, was by no means the sonic antithesis to a Swans performance (last reviewed by Louder Than War here). Although it may not have caused the irreparable hearing damage that might befall a reckless Swans concertgoer thinking too much of themselves for ear protection, the duo exercised a surprising ability to summon noise at a volume and frequency which burrowed itself deep behind your ear drums. The gig opened with a virtuosic solo by Hahn on the lap-steel guitar (for this show entitled London Overture), flooding the art-deco theatre with whirlwinds of noise, in equal parts beautiful and overpowering. The overture could’ve gone on for five minutes or for thirty for all I could tell, and for its duration held us in a state of blissful anaesthesia. Gira then joined the stage......
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Live Review: Michael Gira and Kristof Hahn at Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin – 27 April 2025
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https://beatsperminute.com/live-review-michael-gira-and-kristof-hahn-at-heimathafen-neukolln-berlin-27-april-2025/ Text by John Wohlmacher. For a man that so many of his fans still claim to be intimidated by, Michael Gira in the flesh sure comes across as… somewhat of a goofball. “If you think he’s sexy now”, he expands on his collaborator Kristof Hahn, “you should see him after the show!” Moments later, he puts a finger on his backside: “TSSSSSSSS!” Possibly, his good mood is sparked by the fact that the show in Berlin marks the finale of his widely celebrated tour with Hahn – or because the two musicians are at this point so in tune, their dynamic interplay resembles telepathic communication. Opening with a great performance by soloist Joanna Gemma Auguri, whose tender accordion led songs create an intimate atmosphere that perfectly captures the charms of Neukölln’s Heimathafen, the evening continues with Hahn performing a lengthy improvisation. His lap-steel guitar conjures ever shifting textures, sharp as concrete one moment, before diving into wild psychedelia – moving from ambient tapestries that would fit on Brian Eno’s On Land to No-Wave adjacent noise. Hahn is often held up as one of Gira’s most valuable soldiers, and his performance showcases a generational mastery that is mind blowing. As heavy noise bursts in......