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FACT's albums to look forward to in 2016

January 28, 2016

Brainwashed: Swans, "White Light from the Mouth of Infinity/Love of Life" With both albums out of print for a number of years, Michael Gira has (somewhat surprisingly) not only saw fit to present these two in their original forms, but as a deluxe vinyl box set (or less deluxe CD), expanded with a disc of period-specific rarities and outtakes. What was originally a drastic departure from what everyone expected from Swans is now somewhat less so, and with almost an additional 25 years since White Light from the Mouth of... Read more...

The Guardian: Why Swans' White Light from the Mouth of Infinity/Love of Life is the one box set you should hear this week – video

January 28, 2016

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Mojo Album of the Week: White Light . . ./Love Of Life

January 28, 2016

Swans White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity/Love Of LifeMUTE | CD LP Michael Gira’s early-’90s magnum opus plus its baroque follow-up, collected together in a new box set edition. By ANDREW PERRY DECEMBER 4, 2015 AS THE 1980s receded, Michael Gira evolved Swans on from the proto-industrial kerrang of Time Is Money (Bastard), into the jaw-dropping semi-acoustica of major label debut The Burning World. The latter’s disastrous sales for MCA only deepened Gira’s antipathy to all things corporate, prompting, on ’91’s self-released White Light…, a song called Failure –... Read more...

The Line Of Best Fit review

January 26, 2016

Freaking folk out: Swans’ early 90s classics rediscovered Words: Tamlin Magee / 04 DECEMBER 2015, 13:19 GMT Swans have been a vital fixture in experimental music for over two decades - and now Mute is reissuing White Light from the Mouth of Infinity and Love of Life, made available on vinyl for the first time since their initial release. The band's seventh and eighth studio albums, out in 1991 and 1992, marked a shift from the pummelling severity of their earlier work and crystallised Swans' transition into mastering a different kind of... Read more...

The Guardian: Enduring Love: why Swans are more vital now than ever

January 26, 2016

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/04/enduring-love-why-swans-are-more-vital-now-than-ever Young God records this week reissued two classic early-90s Swans albums as a vinyl box set. White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity and Love of Life have both been remastered and come in with an extra CD of outtakes, rarities and contemporaneous live recordings, as well as two “rare posters”. “So what?” I hear a lot of people mutter. And, to be fair, Cult Band From Yesteryear Who Split Then Reformed Gets Reissue Treatment By Music Industry Circling The Drain And Desperate For One Last Pay Cheque is... Read more...