About this item

After 2014’s epic To Be Kind, SWANS return with a new album, The Glowing Man, announced as the last album release of Swans’ current incarnation.
The Glowing Man was recorded at Sonic Ranch, near El Paso, Texas, with John Congleton as recording engineer. Further recordings were made in Dallas, Seattle and Berlin.

Swans, led by Michael Gira, formed in 1982 and, after disbanding in 1997, returned with the critically acclaimed albums My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky (2010), 2012’s The Seer and 2014’s To Be Kind.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Another monolithic collection from gloom-merchants Swans. Equal parts brooding and pensive, but with a rarely embraced melodic sensibility. Further evidence of their unrivalled talents.

TRACK LISTING

2CD
Disc 1
1. Cloud Of Forgetting
2. Cloud Of Unknowing
3. The World Looks Red / The World Looks Black
4. People Like Us

Disc 2
5. Frankie M
6. When Will I Return
7. The Glowing Man
8. Finally Peace

2CD / DVD
Disc 1
1. Cloud Of Forgetting
2. Cloud Of Unknowing
3. The World Looks Red / The World Looks Black
4. People Like Us

Disc 2
5. Frankie M
6. When Will I Return
7. The Glowing Man
8. Finally Peace
DVD – Swans Live 2015

TRIPLE VINYL (With Poster)
Side 1
1 Cloud Of Forgetting
2 Cloud Of Unknowing

Side 2
3 Cloud Of Unknowing Pt2

Side 3
4 The World Looks Red / The World Looks Black
5 People Like Us

Side 4
6 Frankie M

Side 5
7 When Will I Return
8 The Glowing Man Pt1

Side 6
9 The Glowing Man Pt2
10 Finally Peace