A NOTE FROM MICHAEL GIRA OF SWANS:

“In 2009 when I made the decision to restart my musical group, Swans, I had no idea where it would lead. I knew that if I took the road of mining the past or revisiting the catalog, that it would be fruitless and stultifying. After much thought about how to make this an adventure that would instead lead the music forward into unexpected terrain, I chose the five people with whom to work that I believed would most ably provide a sense of surprise, and even uncertainty, while simultaneously embodying the strength and confidence to ride the river of intention that flows from the heart of the sound wherever it would lead us - and what’s the intention? LOVE!

SWANS seventeenth studio album, Birthing, is now out via Young God Records/Mute on triple vinyl (in a brown chipboard sleeve, double CD (in a brown chipboard digipack), and digitally. Stream/purchase here: https://mute.ffm.to/swans-birthing