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‘The Glowing Man’ By Swans Album Review: Experimental, Expressive And Ritualistic Stream-of-Consciousness3/5By Antonia GeorgievaSwans is the peculiar experimental rock project of Michael Gira, which has been in existence for decades after being created in 1982 and “put to death” in 1997 only to be resurrected again by its creator in 2010. Swans’ third album since their return The Glowing Man continues in the same vein as its precursors the 2012 The Seer and 2014 To Be Kind in the kind of overwhelmingly grand musical features. ‘THE GLOWING MAN’ BY SWANS ALBUM REVIEW The Glowing Man has been said to be the... Read more...
Orlando Weekly Interview
Darker glow: An interview with Michael Gira of Swans By Kyle EagleSwans are well into their third decade, with a large discography behind them, but there's a 13-year caesura in there. Led by sole founding member Michael Gira, the band has put out new work every two years since their re-start in 2010, with lots of EPs and fan-favorite sundries in between. The music they've created during this period is some of their most fascinating and vibrant, if not some of the most astounding music around today. (Sadly, Gira has... Read more...
Vulture Hound Glowing Man Review
Swans – The Glowing Man (Album Review) By Toby FountainSwans are one of the last great vanguards of rock music. With vast swathes of the guitar music landscape surrendering to revivalism and outright derivitism, Swans and their new album, The Glowing Man, are a nostalgic reminder of rock’s bolder and more exciting past. We are told by bandleader Michael Gira that this is the final chapter of the bands current incarnation which emerged in 2010 with My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky. The Glowing Man is... Read more...
Glide Glowing Man Review
SWANS GIVE MUSICAL PROWESS NEW MEANING ON ‘THE GLOWING MAN’ (ALBUM REVIEW)by Marko Polovina 8/10Almost two years since their stellar and critics favorite To Be Kind was released, Swans’ The Glowing Man has the band changing up the pacing a bit; this is a far less challenging 120 minutes and frankly more inviting than they’ve written in quite some time. The opening 13 minutes of “Cloud of Forgetting” isn’t nearly as frenetic in with frontman Michael Gira’s biblical lyricism juxtaposed by piano keys and an always industrial edge at its apex... Read more...
Plilly.com Concert Preview
Michael Gira's Swans flock together but in constant motionMichael Gira has been making gorgeously abrasive music as Swans on and off since 1982, when he was part of New York City's No Wave scene. The brooding singer/composer took a long Swans hiatus after 1996's cinematic Soundtracks for the Blind to start the shimmering, acoustic Angels of Light ensemble. He then shuttered Light and combined the dark Swans' and more sun-dappled Angels' sounds for 2010's My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky and the rebirth of Swans... Read more...
Outloud Glowing Man Review
Review: Swans – The Glowing ManBy Andy GarciaTo get a human into a trance state isn’t an easy task; hypnotization or some other form of stimuli is needed. Midway through Swans’ latest and final effort The Glowing Man, I caught myself slipping and dissociating from some of my senses, due to the rhythmic churning of guitars and crashing cymbals on track “Frankie M”. “Break a glass, stab his eye, choke his neck, nothing’s left.” The track’s violent thrashing culminated in this verse that was as disparate as the music itself. Michael... Read more...
XFRD Glowing Man Review
THE GLOWING MAN by SwansBY ALEXANDER LARIOS · JULY 1, 2016 Genre: Post-Rock Favorite Tracks: “Cloud of Unknowing,” “The World Looks Red / The World Looks Black,” “When Will I Return?,” “The Glowing Man,” “Finally, Peace” Whenever a Swans album comes out, it always proves itself to be a profoundly interesting trek into the dark recesses of frontman Michael Gira’s broken psyche. Whether it be guys with toothy FILTH shirts at music stores or blog-worthy epiphanies after finishing up the second disc of SOUNDTRACKS FOR THE BLIND, Swans and Gira... Read more...
Medium The Glowing Man Review
Album Review: “The Glowing Man” by SwansDavid Bradford There’s no way to predict what path Michael Gira will take Swans down next. From the industrial rock inception of the legendary New York-based experimental rock kings in the early 1980’s to the group’s then-magnum opus “Soundtracks for the Blind” in 1996 to the subsequent hiatus beginning in 1997, Gira has always guided the group down an assortment of musical paths that keep the group’s material exciting and fresh. With their latest release — “The Glowing Man”, the band’s fourteenth studio album — the band’s current... Read more...
Ear Buddy Glowing Man Review
Swans – The Glowing Man Roundtable ReviewSwans gave us 2014's best album. Does The Glowing Man shine just as bright? 8.2 / 10Welcome to another Earbuddy Roundtable Review. To explain, Earbuddy assembles three or more writers to discuss a new album with each writer giving his/her thoughts on the release and their own personal score. Then an average score is determined for the album overall. For our latest Roundtable, Earbuddy writers Tom Alexander, JEDowney, NK, and Aaron Kolarcik will be reviewing Swans’ The Glowing Man. Album Background 2014 was a... Read more...
Louder Than War Glowing Man Review
Swans : ‘Glowing Man’ : album reviewWritten by johnrobb5 July, 2016SwansThe Glowing Man10/10album review Yet again Swans make another powerful hypnotic album that is as terrifying as it is beautiful as it concerns itself with the powerful intoxicant of love and all the highs and lows that entails says LTW boss and Membranes frontman John Robb So, all good things come to the end. Where Swans go from here no-one can really speculate but there is an end here. A real sense of finality. This is a juddering and enormous... Read more...

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