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April 30, 2014

CHECK OUT AN EXCLUSIVE TEASER OF SWANS' NEW LP 'TO BE KIND' BECAUSE YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF Some records you throw on while you do shit like organize you closet or clean the toilet, tuning in and out while you focus on the mundane. But for some records, you light a candle, get a solid pair of headphones, settle in and listen to in its entirety. Swans falls into that latter category. A Swans record is a journey; songs build and expand to come crashing down again, and there is a... Read more...

Q&A with M.Gira from Uncut Magazine

April 30, 2014

April 17, 2014

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/04/swans-expand-north-american-tour-share-new-live-video/ Swans have extended their upcoming world tour with a new string of U.S. dates for this fall. The iconic post-rockers will trek down the West Coast in early September, starting in Seattle on the 2nd and ending in Hollywood on the 11th. They already have a hefty number of stops mapped out from May to July, and you can find their entire docket ahead. The band’s year-long tour comes in support of their forthcoming recordTo Be Kind, due out May 13th via Young Gods/Mute Records. Featuring the guest talents of St. Vincent’s Annie Clark, Cold Specks, Little Annie, and Bill Rieflin, the... Read more...

Paraphilia Magazine To Be Kind album review

April 7, 2014

SWANS: TO BE KINDBy Christopher Nosnibor Swans aren’t dead. Not by any stretch. As we all know by now, they’d simply been in hibernation, and all the time Michael Gira was releasing delicate, acoustic-led albums with Angels of Light, poison was festering in his veins until Swans were, through artistic necessity, reborn, a magnificent chimera of malformed beauty. To Be Kind, the third album since their return in 2010, is their most staggering yet. It does, naturally, bear all the hallmarks of Swans from throughout their lengthy history. It also very... Read more...

Interview between Michael and Tom Fleming (of Wild Beasts) in NME Magazine.

April 4, 2014

April 1, 2014

The first taste of the 'To Be Kind' comes with really weird baby pictures March 21 2014, 6:45 PM ET Late Thursday, we learned the name, guest list, and size of the next album from New York rock experimentalists Swans. Now we've got the first piquant and decidedly dirty taste of the double-disc set dubbed To Be Kind, plus some super creepy baby portraits to viddy. You can stream the shambling seven-minute drunken dirge known as "A Little God In My Hands" below, and then read a letter from band... Read more...

Swans Share New Song "A Little God in My Hands", Six-Part Art for New Album To Be Kind on Pitchfork

March 31, 2014

Swans Share New Song "A Little God in My Hands", Six-Part Art for New Album To Be Kind By Jenn Pelly on March 21, 2014 at 04:00 p.m. Listen to Swans: "A Little God in My Hands" On May 13, Swans will release their next album, To Be Kind, the followup to 2012's epic The Seer, via Young God/Mute. It features a number of guest contributors, including St. Vincent's Annie Clark, Little Annie, Cold Specks, and Bill Rieflin. The band has now shared To Be Kind cut "A Little God in My Hands" as... Read more...

Swans Announce Summer Tour on Pitchfork

March 31, 2014

Swans Announce Summer Tour By Molly Beauchemin on March 24, 2014 at 09:57 a.m. Listen to Swans: "A Little God in My Hands" Swans have announced even more dates in support of To Be Kind, the followup to 2012's The Seer, out May 13 in the U.S. via Young God and May 12 internationally via Mute. (As previously reported, the new record will feature contributions from St. Vincent's Annie Clark, Little Annie, Cold Specks, and Bill Rieflin.) Following spring U.S. and Europe dates with Jenny Hval, Michael Gira and co. will tour North... Read more...