31 535 takipçi
Lunacy | Swans | 06:08 | |
Oxygen | Swans | 07:59 | |
God Damn The Sun | Swans | 04:21 | |
Screen Shot | Swans | 08:04 | |
Love Will Save You | Swans | 06:06 | |
Kirsten Supine | Swans | 10:32 | |
Bring the Sun / Toussaint L'Ouverture | Swans | 34:05 | |
The Hanging Man | Swans | 10:48 | |
Just a Little Boy (For Chester Burnett) | Swans | 12:39 | |
She Loves Us | Swans | 17:00 |
Alongside Sonic Youth, Swans took inspiration from New York's punk and noise scenes and created their own form of distorted, No Wave, alternative rock aesthetic, full of heavy downbeats and sustaining guitars. Formed in 1979 at a time when the city was particularly violent and dystopian, Michael Gira led the band in building great angry walls of droning distortion on early albums Filth (1983), Cop (1984) and Greed (1986). Full of dark, confrontational lyrics, the band's mood mellowed slightly with the addition of vocalist Janet Jaboe in 1984 and became slightly more accessible on Children Of God (1987), before adding banjos and acoustic guitars on Love Of Life (1992). They took another leftfield departure on the ambient, minimalist double album Soundtracks For The Blind (1996), before the band split in 1997 with Gira going on to form Americana group Angels Of Light. Reforming in 2010 for My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky, they received huge critical acclaimed for 12th studio album The Seer (2012), regarded by many fans as their best work.