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Rock and Roll Globe leaving meaning. Review & Interview
https://rockandrollglobe.com/psychedelics/swans-leaving-meaning-interview/ Swans Mean Business The RNR Globe’s exclusive chat with Michael Gira on his longtime collective’s 15th LP Leaving Meaning  October 21, 2019 Katherine Yeske Taylor  Even though it’s 8:30 a.m., Swans frontman Michael Gira is impeccably articulate and polite when he calls from his home “somewhere in Pennsylvania.” He’s up this early because he soon needs to leave for the airport – he’s flying to Latvia, the first stop on a three-week solo tour across Eastern Europe. In the midst of that, on October 25, Swans will release their 15th studio album, Leaving Meaning (Young... Read more...
Decibel Magazine leaving meaning. Review
https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2019/10/23/exclusive-stream-the-new-swans-album-leaving-meaning/ Exclusive: Stream the new SWANS album “Leaving Meaning” October 23, 2019  Justin Norton When Decibel met with Swans founder/visionary Michael Gira in San Francisco last fall before a solo show he said new Swans music was coming after a three-year gap. A year later he’s lived up to the promise with the double album Leaving Meaning. “Leaving Meaning is the first Swans album to be released since I dissolved the lineup of musicians that constituted Swans from 2010 – 2017,” Gira says. “Swans is now comprised of a revolving cast of musicians, selected for both their musical and... Read more...
Louder Than War leaving meaning. Review
https://louderthanwar.com/swans-leaving-meaning-album-review/ Swans: leaving meaning. – album review By  Simon Tucker  - November 1, 2019 Swans: leaving meaning. Mute / Young God Records LP / CD / DL Available Now. Swans first album since main man Michael Gira disbanded the 2010 – 2017 line up sees Gira involve a clutch of collaborators to help him with his sonic mission. Simon Tucker reviews. From 2012’s The Seer  – 2016’s The Glowing Man, Swans had a run of albums that were unique, pulvarising, ecstatic and darkly joyous. The music Michael Gira and his... Read more...
Colorado Springs Independent leaving meaning. Review
https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/swans-michael-gira-goes-understated-on-new-album/Content?oid=20614340 Swans' Michael Gira goes understated on new album  By Loring Wirbel Since Swans’ 1980s debut in the New York downtown scene, Michael Gira has woven the tough noise of the band’s early work with the orchestral flourish of his side projects. Beginning in the late ’90s, Swans released a series of double-CD, 90-minute epic works relying on the percussion of Thor Harris and declarative guitar of Norman Westberg. So how does Gira avoid “epic fatigue”? In Leaving Meaning (Young God Records), the seventh such double disc, he chooses quiet understatement with strings... Read more...
Tone Shift leaving meaning. Review
https://toneshift.net/2019/11/07/leaving-meaning-by-swans/ Leaving Meaning by Swans BY SAMUEL GOFF ON NOVEMBER 7, 2019 Swans Leaving MeaningYoung God Records (LP/CD/DL) Few bands have successfully navigated through such a long history of stylistic changes, personnel upheavals and emotional shifts as Swans. It helps that now after so many eras and bands and genres head Swan boss Michael Gira is officially christening what we have known for decades. That Swans is not a band but an extension to the outside world of….Michael Gira. Gira closed out the latest chapter of Swans very successfully in 2017, recording a slew of challenging, epic... Read more...
Wall of Sound leaving meaning. Review
https://wallofsoundau.com/2019/10/29/swans-leaving-meaning-album-review/ SWANS – Leaving MeaningReleased: October 25th, 2019 Swans lineup Michael Gira | Vocals, Guitars Leaving Meaning marks the 15th studio album of SWANS’ long and incredibly diverse discography, the first album since frontman Michael Gira formally dissolved the most recent lineup of the band in favour of a revolving door of handpicked musicians. In typical SWANS style, Leaving Meaning is a departure from the orgasmic climax-oriented post-rock of their recent trilogy of albums (The Seer, To Be Kind, and The Glowing Man). Instead, Gira has revisited (intentionally or otherwise) a number of sounds familiar to both Swans earlier material and those familiar with his... Read more...
Echoes and Dust leaving meaning. Review
https://www.echoesanddust.com/2019/10/swans-leaving-meaning/ leaving meaning. by Swans Swans on the web:Facebook | Bandcamp | Release date: October 25, 2019Label: Young Gods Records by Chris Keith-Wright | October 25, 2019 | Michael Gira is a master, first and foremost, of reincarnation. Since their inception in 1982, Swans have gone through so many different iterations, both in personae and personnel, that a book must surely be forthcoming. Even the most devout follower of the artistic construct known as Swans surely needs their Wikipedia entry open on their phone if quizzed by the whomsoever strange individual that might be willing to lose themselves... Read more...
Billboard leaving meaning. Review
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8540566/swans-michael-gira-leaving-meaning-interview Swans Founder Michael Gira Talks Band's 15th Album, 'Leaving Meaning,' And 13th Lineup: 'This New Mutation Is Unique' 10/25/2019 by Tina Benitez-Eves Gira explains that the latest formation harkens back to the group’s ’90s-era congregation. “No.” That’s Michael Gira’s dry response when asked if Swans’ latest release, Leaving Meaning (Oct. 25, Mute/Young God Records), was intentionally produced with tracks that average fewer than 12 minutes — which isn’t the norm for some of the experimental act’s more epic, atmospheric-crashing chants, like the 30-plus-minute “Bring the Sun” or “The Seer.” In fact, with Swans,... Read more...
Spectrum Culture leaving meaning. Review
https://spectrumculture.com/2019/11/05/swans-leaving-meaning-review/ Swans: leaving meaning. JAKE COLE NOVEMBER 5, 2019 Gira turns inward and finds just as much depth within the contours of his band’s new sound as he did its most overwhelming energy. 4/5 In 1982, Michael Gira named his new band after swans, noting that the creatures were beautiful, but deadly. Over the course of the group’s four-decade history of regular lineup changes and stylistic reinventions, however, the bird that the band most closely resembles is the phoenix. After rising from the ashes of their entropic burnout in the... Read more...
Pop Matters leaving meaning. Review
https://www.popmatters.com/metalmatters-2019-october-2641054653.html Swans have seemingly become a phoenix-like entity, burning down to ashes through Michael Gira's creative prowess and against all the odds being reborn even more potent every time. When Swans first called it quits in 1997, few would expect their mighty return in 2010. The result was a trilogy of stellar works with The Seer, To Be Kind, and The Glowing Man. Still, in the closing moments of The Glowing Man, some signs of fatigue became noticeable, signaling that the time for another hibernation has come. Gira soon after announced the re-configuration of... Read more...

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