Young God

"This album has everything in there – all the ideas from Swans' initial 15 years of work. There's some contemporary recordings of the band as it existed in ‘96/7, with Larry Mullins on drums/percussion, Jarboe singing and playing keyboards, Vudi playing e

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) and 2012’s The Seer. The band's latest effort, To Be Kind, will be issued on Young

“This is all slabs of sound, rhythm and screaming/testifying. What more do you need? In a way, it was a reaction against Punk (and just about any other music you can think of), and the conservative notion that 3 chords were somehow necessary. I used to de

“The Seer took 30 years to make. It’s the culmination of every previous Swans album as well as any other music I’ve ever made, been involved in or imagined. But it’s unfinished, like the songs themselves. It’s one frame in a reel. The frames blur, blend a

Swans present a remastered reissue of Children of God via Mute / Young God Records. The album, originally issued on Product Inc. (a subsidiary of Mute) in 1987 will be available on vinyl in its original packaging for the first time since that release. "By

Limited edition reissue of this live double album, originally released independently in the UK on vinyl and compact disc. It compiles recordings from Swans' 1987 European tour, made by the band's sound engineer on a Sony Walkman.