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Uncut review: White Light. . . / Love of Life
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MOJO review: White Light. . . / Love of Life
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Record Collector review: White Light. . . / Love of Life
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Swans: The Wire Archive Releases of the Year
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Brainwashed: Swans, "White Light from the Mouth of Infinity/Love of Life"
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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 Infinity, their place in Swans' impeccable catalog makes perfect sense. Even removed from that, however, they are an exceptionally strong pair of American folk influenced albums that have lost none of their force or impact to this day. Young God Records The second major phase of Swans' career (roughly from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s) has always been a contentious one, for artist and fan alike. Many decried the shift away from the violent, seething, belligerent sound that characterized seminal records such as Cop or Filth, into a more melodic one as an example of the now-novel concept of 'selling out." The move towards actual song writing and......