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swans mojo article
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authora heap of jelly...
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SWANS WAY
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Sash Frere-Jones | The New YorkerMichael Gira's path to transcendence...
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assorted links to US website reviews
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rapunzeldance, tinkerbell, danceMain USA/North America websites, reviews: popmatters: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/129989-swans-my-father-will-guide-me-up-a-rope-to-the-sky/ pitchfork: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14651-my-father-will-guide-me-up-a-rope-to-the-sky/ dusted: http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5973 cokemachineglow: http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/5680/swans-myfather-2010 tinymixtapes: http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/swans-my-father-will-guide-me-rope-sky stereogum (record review): http://stereogum.com/452821/swans-eden-prison-stereogum-premiere/franchises/haunting-the-chapel/ stereogum (live review): http://stereogum.com/539911/swans-baby-dee-ben-frost-brooklyn-masonic-temple-brooklyn-100810/franchises/haunting-the-chapel/ brainwashed (4 reviews): http://www.brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8412:swans-my-father-will-guide-me-up-a-rope-to-the-sky&catid=13:albums-and-singles&Itemid=96 http://www.brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8413:swans-qmy-father-will-guide-me-up-a-rope-to-the-skyq&catid=13:albums-and-singles&Itemid=96 http://www.brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8409:swans-qmy-father-will-guide-me-up-a-rope-to-the-skyq&catid=13:albums-and-singles&Itemid=96 http://www.brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8408:swans-qmy-father-will-guide-me-up-a-rope-to-the-skyq&catid=13:albums-and-singles&Itemid=96...
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rockfeedback interview
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By: Tim Robinshttp://www.rockfeedback.com/feature/1482/swans-interview-september-2010-part-2/SWANS – INTERVIEW – SEPTEMBER 2010 [PART 1] By: Tim Robins Rockfeedback: We rang you on an American number. Whereabouts are you currently based, Michael? Michael Gira: I’m currently in the Capscale mountains about 100 miles north of New York City where I live. RFB: As a broad opening question, how are you feeling about the new Swans album and tour? Seeing as how it’s been so long (almost 13 years) and the tour is close approaching, are you scared at all? MG: I suppose an understatement would be that I have a great deal of trepidation *laughs*. It’s been many years since I’ve done this…Swans that is. I’m looking forward to it. We’re about to begin rehearsing, 12 hours a day, every day for 3 weeks. I think and hope that we will all be ready. I’m looking forward to it. Although it certainly won’t mean much to anybody, for me, it’s a cataclysmic experience. RFB: Especially with such an intense schedule including 12 hour rehearsals. It sounds intense… MG: It has to be. The band has been all over the world, so we have to get together and become a band, you know? Such that people......
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freq swans abomination
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-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 taken the plunge again, and immersed himself once more into the sublime brutality of one of music’s most relentless outfits. Swans’ following being what it is, this was a pretty dangerous move, whichever way you look at it. To produce something that could have equally marched under the Angels of Light banner would still be awesome musically, but integrity-wise would have looked like a cynical cash-in. Equally, to come back properly as Swans had to be done right. Jane’s Addiction and Bauhaus both returned from the grave with good, solid albums, but neither really felt like an event in the same way; and let’s not even think about Axl Rose‘s......