Swans

The Beggar

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Swans present their sixteenth studio album The Beggar.

The Beggar was written and produced by founding member Michael Gira and features contributions from recent and former Swans members, members of Angels Of Light, as well as guest Swan Ben Frost.

Following 2019’s leaving meaning, the album emerged from the 2020 lockdown with Micheal explaining, “after numerous pandemic-induced cancellations of tours for the previous Swans album leaving meaning, and an apparent bottomless pit of waiting, waiting, waiting, and the strange disorientation that came with this sudden but interminable forced isolation I decided it was time to write songs for a new Swans album and forget about everything else. They came relatively easily, always informed by the suspicion that these could be my last. When I finally was able to travel, songs in hand, to Berlin to work with my friends recording this record, the feeling was akin to the moment in The Wizard of Oz when the film changes from Black and White to Color. Now I’m feeling quite optimistic. My favourite color is pink. I hope you enjoy the album.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: There are few bands more incendiary than Swans, and 'The Beggar' has been a hotly anticipated arrival in the shop for me especially. The atmospheric gloom and soaring heft of Gira & Co's previous LP's is as present as ever, but lightened with a (dare I say it?) more song-based structure to a few of the pieces. It's classic swans, but it's also a perfect sidestep for one of the most visceral bands in the game.

TRACK LISTING

Vinyl Tracklist:
1. Paradise Is Mine
2. The Beggar
3. Los Angeles: City Of Death
4. The Parasite
5. The Memorious
6. Michael Is Done
7. Why Can't I Have What I Want Any Time That I Want
8. Unforming
9. Ebbing
10. No More Of This

+ 'The Beggar Lover (Three)' Included In The Digital Download.

CD Tracklist
CD1
1. The Parasite
2. Paradise Is Mine
3. Los Angeles: City Of Death
4. Michael Is Done
5. Unforming
6. The Beggar
7. No More Of This
8. Ebbing
9. Why Can't I Have What I Want Any Time That I Want?
CD2
1. The Beggar Lover (Three)
2. The Memorious

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