Swans - It’s Coming It’s Real (Official Audio)

Swans new album, leaving meaning., will be released worldwide October 25th, 2019 on Young God Records/Mute. Formats include 2X LP, 2CD, as well as download and stream.

"It's Coming It's Real" features choral vocals by Anna and Maria von
Hausswolff.

Swans will tour in 2020.

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Hello, thank you for listening to our music. I hope it gives you some joy and pleasure.

I am pleased that you have discovered our music through this medium. I view this experience as the equivalent of previewing a record in a record store in days of old. However, if you wish to experience the music in its' fullest form, I would strongly encourage you to acquire it in a physical format you can bring into your home. Not only will you then be able to experience the richest version of the music sonically, but you will also be afforded the opportunity to enjoy the tangible artwork, which was conceived in tandem with the music, and serves as a further portal to experiencing the total conceptual and spiritual and emotional content of the work we have labored, lovingly, to bring to you.

I love you,

- Michael Gira / Swans / Young God Records

[vicomtedevalmont]

I’m ready to drown in a 2.5 hour album again ye ye

[nathanmaye]

In the unlikely event that we get a fourth season of Twin Peaks, they should feature Swans playing this at the Roadhouse

[roachdoggjr]

Oh yeah, the new swans album! It’s coming! It’s real!





Edit: I love you too, Mr. Gira

[itskobold]

i was having a terrible day but this makes it better

thank you swans

[uncleanproduction]

A life without Swans is possible, but meaningless.

[danielparsignault]

Has it really been 35 years since I started listening to SWANS, A.O.L. and M. Gira?


I almost saw them in Boston in '85 at the Rat (R.I.P.) around the time of "Raping A Slave".


I thought it would be a good idea to dose on acid before entering the concert.


Then, in the course of breaking up a fight outside, I got arrested for assault and battery.


With the wisdom of time, I can probably say that handcuffed to a bench in the Charles St. cop shop was probably less destructive than enduring M.Gira's fury under the influence of LSD.


Good times!


I really liked " Children of God" and the dynamics that seemed to come about with the addition of Jarboe to the collective.


That tangent of the next four albums produced my all time fave Swans album ; "Love of Life" and its' track " The Sound of Freedom" with my all time fave lyric, " The light inside your body will shine through history, set fire to every prison, set every dead man free:" pure poetry.


Although the song " The Great Annihilator" is in the running (in my head) for the greatest song ever written.


I saw them in L.A. on the " Swans Are Dead" tour, thanks for the warning!


The soundscape album " Soundtracks for the Blind" is a great album to disappear into.


And then they were gone. A musical chapter was closed and A.O.L. was well enjoyed for their catharsis and acoustic intensity.


I saw an M.Gira solo show in Hollywood in 2000 or so and I can relate that he was still as crotchety as ever.


I stumbled, quite by chance on a copy of "My Father..." in a Music Store (remember those ) in 2010?


Joy, the SWANS were back and picked up right where "...Annihilator" ended.


Which brings us to the last nine years and the second to latest incarnation, I bought and listened to all the band albums but not all the time as this version of SWANS demanded my complete attention. I cannot multitask when listening to SWANS anymore.


I am old.


The fact that M.Gira is still around and still churning out good music is really great, not too many from that specific time and place are still around.


The fact that he is interested in playing with "new" people means to me that there will always be interesting and everchanging music coming from his camp.


Thanks to you M. Gira for being a part of the soundtrack to my life.


You have won...

[charmicarmicat]

I live on an Air Force base and am experiencing this song with headphones as jets pass over my head and it really adds a fantastic depth to this already deep and vast ocean of sound.

[ndarcy]

Post-apocalyptic nuclear Hawaiian beach scene.

[francomiranda]

With the lyrics on To Be Kind and this song, and the title of this new album "leaving meaning", It really sounds like a Michael Gira is trying to come to terms with his old age and inevitable death. To Be Kind sounded like the first 4 stages of grief, exploding in despair and various mantras. This sounds like he's finally reached acceptance. It's crazy how well SWANS does in expressing these emotions. It's neither blind optimism nor complete pessimism. Their recent discography has a been a human, masterful collection of the spectrum of cognitive dissonance.

[theletterbleeds]

Jeez, the music this year is on fire!

[fritz]

Took me a second to realize the text kept changing.

[faltrax]

This is so different than what Swans has done lately. Pleasant and ethereal and yet retains that moody and epic undercurrent.

[roachdoggjr]

I really am looking forward to the new album, this track reminds me a little of Angels of Light and I just love how peaceful it sounds! Every album of swans sounds like a different kind of insanity!

[walidovofsiddharthatan]

i tromped around in the woods last week, my cat following me the whole way. i ended up dancing like a freak and he rolled around in the dirt. this song was there for it. we lost ourselves. it was nice. i love you too, mr. gira and thank you, very cool.

[NisiMvsica]

Anna would have been enough, but together with Maria... we're listening to Jarboe 2.0 here. Unspeakably beautiful.

[marcochies]

In the place where you lay
In the shimmer above
In the rust and the oil
With your mouth full of mud
You run like a child
Through curtains of rain
In a room made of stone
Your future was made
There's nowhere to run to
You forget where you've been
Your shadow is shrinking
In the tightening lens
How many more years?
How much time is there left?
All the rivers reversed
While you counted each step

In the veins of the tree
In the strata beneath
In the polished chrome sheen
In the rebar and conrete
Reach up for the hand
Of the glowing half-man
Stand still on the edge
Of the greased precipice
Reach out
In a tunnel of steel
Fall through
It's coming, it's real
Breathe in
The glittering dust
Exhale
Mindless

Rage on, helpless
Reach out, sightless
Kneel down, fearless
Rise up, righteous
Save us, formless
Reach out, mindless
Save us, lightless
Leave us, soundless
Rise up, righteous
Save us, formless
Reach out, mindless
Save us, lightless
Rage on, fearless
Leave us, soundless
Leave us, soundless
Save us, lightless
Reach out, mindless
Save us, formless
Rise up, righteous
Kneel down, fearless
Reach out, sightless
Rage on, soundless

[Jackmonster]

Anyone else get a White Light + Love of Life vibe from this track? Really enjoying it. Gira never let's me down.

[sidekick]

This is kinda like a mix of white light from the mouth of infinity and the glowing man

[plankthereturn]

it's always nice to change things up a bit and listen to a swans song that doesn't physically hurt me

[karlmeissner]

Wow I’m getting swans vibes on this track