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freq swans abomination
-Deuteronemu feet are superfluous / http://www.freqzine.net/reviews/swans-my-father/Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky Young God Swans are back, and it’s an event so massive, so inconceivably vast and unimaginable, that the very fact of its occurrence drowns out even the loudest of their tracks. Michael Gira, of course, has never been away, continuously pumping out increasingly diverse and intimate music under the name Angels of Light, occasionally dipping his toes back into that pool of intensity on which Swans used to glide. But now he’s... Read more...
drowned in sound swans review
by Noel Gardnea heap of locusts in a bowl Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky Type: Album Release date: 20/09/2010 Artists:Swans » Label:Young God Records » Your Rating: Review this release Add to a list... by Noel Gardner▾ 4 comments 10:16 September 16th, 2010 The earnestness with which Michael Gira has thrown himself into the task of reviving the Swans (he resolutely doesn’t consider it a reunion) has resulted in an extensive tour, to follow the release of this brand new album. Reasonably enough,... Read more...
drowned in sound swans review
by Noel Gardnera heap of locusts in a bowl Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky Type: Album Release date: 20/09/2010 Artists:Swans » Label:Young God Records » Your Rating: Review this release Add to a list... by Noel Gardner▾ 4 comments 10:16 September 16th, 2010 The earnestness with which Michael Gira has thrown himself into the task of reviving the Swans (he resolutely doesn’t consider it a reunion) has resulted in an extensive tour, to follow the release of this brand new album. Reasonably enough,... Read more...
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Article written by Matt H -a hole in the universeSwans My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky Young God Article written by Matt H - Sep 16, 2010 Swans - American Rope Trick "Swans Are Not Dead" came the announcement a few months back to no little excitement round these parts. Judging by the photos in the album "Swans are Undead" might have been nearer the mark. Michael Gira is at pains to point out that this isn't a reunion, it's him moving forward again. Quite... Read more...
ny times and montreal gazette live swans reviews
2 peoplethe pillars of a shemale herculesSWANS LIVE MONTREAL REVIEW Pop Montreal 2010: Swans, with Baby Dee and Lily Fawn at Le National, Oct. 1 By Jordan ZIVITZ SAT, OCT 2 2010 Speaking to The Gazette recently, Michael Gira summarized his rationale for resurrecting Swans after a 13-year deep freeze: "I want to be in the centre of a very large, overwhelming, body-destroying sound." He wasn't kidding. The overwhelming part started Friday at Le National before the band even began playing, with a queasy taped drone piped in at daunting... Read more...
bbc swans review
Louis Pattison 2010-09-13http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/85gwhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/85gw Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky Review Album. Released 20 September 2010. BBC Review A majestic return and, let us hope, a harbinger of more to come. Louis Pattison 2010-09-13 Swans, rightly, have a fearsome reputation. Born in 1982 out of the flux of New York’s artistic, abrasive no-wave scene, they quickly became a byword for rock-in-extremity, songs like Raping a Slave and Time Is Money (Bastard) hurricanes of sound atop which frontman Michael Giradeclaimed transgressive lyrics in guttural bellows. But... Read more...
bbc swans review
Louis Pattisonhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/85gwhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/85gw Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky Review Album. Released 20 September 2010. BBC Review A majestic return and, let us hope, a harbinger of more to come. Louis Pattison 2010-09-13 Swans, rightly, have a fearsome reputation. Born in 1982 out of the flux of New York’s artistic, abrasive no-wave scene, they quickly became a byword for rock-in-extremity, songs like Raping a Slave and Time Is Money (Bastard) hurricanes of sound atop which frontman Michael Giradeclaimed transgressive lyrics in guttural bellows. But that... Read more...
spin mag swans review
By Spencer KornhaberclamorSwans 'My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky' Noise-punk gods obliterate us again, for our own good SPIN RATING 8 of 10 This pioneering no-wave act went into hibernation in 1997, but the hiatus hasn't sapped leader Michael Gira's desire for renewal and redemption through spectacular destruction: After a nine-minute opener that lays waste with creepy jet-engine roar, guitar chug, and lyrics about a "zero man," Gira delivers "Reeling the Liars In," a catchy campfire ditty about doing terrible things to dishonest people. Recognizable... Read more...
collected swans press as of 2/1/2011
mr bozoa thick, wet sound heard oozing across the tundra http://www.groovemine.com/rantsraves_review_swans_my-father-will-guide-me-up -a-rope-to-the-sky My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope to The Sky by Swans LABEL: Young God Records There’s no ‘summing up’ with Swans. The creative collective that has made up the group since 1982, steered by Michael Gira, has simply traversed too much territory, beget too many children (bands and genres alike), and defied every convention and easy buck offered through the official channels of music. Gira’s retirement of the band in 1997 during, arguably, their finest form... Read more...
swans ny times article
by ben ratlifffrom gnashing sound sculptures to serene art songsNever Say Never: Swans Return By BEN RATLIFF Published: September 3, 2010 I SAW just a little bit of a Swans show in 1983, in their early days, during their period of slow-but-alert, theater-of-cruelty music. If I remember right, I had come to CBGB to hear Heart Attack, the fastest punk band I knew, and after that the tempos plunged. Sonic Youth played next: lots of strange tunings, innocently curious. Then came Swans, with violent songs that sounded as if they... Read more...

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