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Artist:
SWANS
Title:
Kill The Child
Label:
ATAVISTIC
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
ALP 057CD
"The first of two brutally intense live recordings culled from the Swans '85-'87 European tours, during their storied '$' era. Originally released as extremely ltd. 'bootlegs' by M. Gira on his own Disaster label, we've lovingly repackaged them & the fidelity/hugeness here cannot be denied."
Artist:
SWANS
Title:
Feel Good Now
Label:
ATAVISTIC
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
ALP 135CD
"The long-out-of print double-LP document of Swans triumphant 1987 European tour is finally available again on Atavistic. Featuring the mesmerizing, powerful lineup of Michael Gira, Jarboe, Norman Westberg, Algis Kyzis & Ted Parsons,
Feel Good Now
captures Swans live at one of the highest pinnacles of achievement in their storied career -- somehow deploying music simultaneously heavy, yet delicate and fragile."
Artist:
SWANS
Title:
Soundtracks for the Blind
Label:
YOUNG GOD
Format:
2CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
YG 001CD
"Originally released 1997, now reissued in a jewelbox after being out of print for ages. Michael Gira has always been good at establishing finality. Each successive Swans release would have made a spectacular tombstone or constituted an epitaph for which other groups would have killed. Soundtracks for the Blind is no exception to the rule, but this time around even by his own high standards and compared to his low-end excursions of yore, Gira has exceeded himself. As dramatic excursions go, Soundtracks equals the best. Running over two CDs and two-and-a-half-hours, this would be a gruelling enough listen even without the bejeweled brilliance of the ten actual songs nestled among the found-soundscapes, ambient decompositions and twisted electronic noises that constitute the album's remaining sixteen fragments."
Artist:
SWANS
Title:
Children of God/World of Skin
Label:
YOUNG GOD
Format:
2CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
YG 002CD
"Over 145 minutes of scary and beautiful music. Two crucial breakthrough records from Swans' mid- to late-'80s period back in print. Consistently sought after by an ever-replenishing fanbase seeking out the roots of Gira's Angels of Light work, related projects, Young God Records, and past collaborator Jarboe."
Artist:
SWANS
Title:
Swans Are Dead
Label:
YOUNG GOD
Format:
2CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
YG 003CD
"Double-live jewel case reissue from final Swans tours in 1995 and 1997. Exceedingly high-quality, 24-track recordings mixed with live ambient microphones comes as close as possible to the overwhelming sonic overload that was Swans in their final period."
Artist:
SWANS
Title:
Filth/Body to Body, Job to Job
Label:
YOUNG GOD
Format:
2CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
YG 011CD
"Another exciting piece of history from one of The Big Apple's meanest, creepiest, most uncompromising bands ever. As with the
Various Failures
triumph,
Filth/Body to Body, Job to Job
collects material from one of the band's golden eras, a time when bands like Swans and their contemporaries such as Glenn Branca and Sonic Youth could barely get library cards, let alone featured on the covers of magazines to which they are accustomed today. Disc number one reissues Swans' classic 1983 crawl, recorded by M.Gira, Norman Westberg, Roli Mosimann, Harry Crosby, and Jonathan Kane and features previously unreleased tracks, all recorded live at the Kitchen. Disc number two reissues studio out-takes and live recordings from 1982-85, with a previously unreleased nine-minute version of 'Raping a Slave,' recorded live in Berlin, 1984."
Artist:
SWANS
Title:
The Great Annihilator
Label:
YOUNG GOD
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
YG 018CD
"Their twelfth album,
The Great Annihilator
, is a majestic symphony of haunting melodies and shifting moods. Spirituality -- or rather the absence of it -- provides the linking motif. With a kinetic, industrial goose step, 'She Lives' plays with chanted images of madness and martyrdom, while the jagged coda of 'Celebrity Lifestyle' lays the groundwork for a cutting look at material dreams.? 'Warm' forms the album's thematic center, overflowing with ethereal vocal loops and drums that patter like raindrops across the lyrical landscape. On 'Mother/Father' and the mantric 'My Buried Child,' vocalist Jarboe outdoes herself with a spectrum of darkly distinctive voices. Taken on its own, this album is a vivid example of how to combine the dissonant with the dulcet while retaining a dangerous edge. Viewed in the context of the Swans' 12-year journey from audio pornography to majestic romanticism,
The Great Annihilator
serves as an epic apotheosis."
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