This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Artist News Gigs & Festivals Releases
New Swans album the last for current line-up announces Michael Gira
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 6 April 2016
Swans are to release their fourteenth studio album, ‘The Glowing Man’, through Mute on 17 Jun, it has been announced. The record will be the last by the current line-up of the band.
Project mainstay Michael Gira explains: “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 catalogue, 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!”
“And so finally”, he continues, “this LOVE has now led us, with the release of the new and final recording from this configuration of Swans, ‘The Glowing Man’, through four albums (three of which contain more complexity, nuance and scope than I would have ever dreamed possible), several live releases, various fundraiser projects, countless and seemingly endless tours and rehearsals, and a generally exhausting regimen that has left us stunned but still invigorated and thrilled to see this thing through to its conclusion”.
Following tour dates in support of the new album, Gira says that he will “continue to make music under the name Swans, with a revolving cast of collaborators”.
UK tour dates are as follows:
8 Oct: Brighton, Concorde 2
9 Oct: Manchester, The Ritz
11 Oct: Glasgow, Oran Mor
12 Oct: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumbria University
13 Oct: London, Islington Assembly Hall
14 Oct: London, Islington Assembly Hall
Listen to an excerpt of ‘The Glowing Man’ here:
