The Beggar
The Beggar is yet another two-hour studio album, and its roster of musicians consists of several previous Swans and Angels of Light members as well as returning guest Ben Frost.
Swans continue to tone back the aggression on The Beggar, feeling like a band once again developing a new identity, one that’s still coalescing into its full shape.
Challenging listeners since 1982, barring a 13-year period of inactivity around the aughts, Michael Gira and SWANS have worked with fairly consistent line-ups sculpting genre-defying experimental rock. The talent he's brought in, either short or long-term, has been quite remarkable. We're talking ab...
Swans's ‘The Beggar’ proceeds in the same white-knuckle way as the group’s last few releases. Read our review.
Written during lockdown, the band’s 16th album is full of claustrophobic unease as Michael Gira contemplates life, mortality and the end of existence
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