Favorite tracks: ANNALINE, SUNFUCKER, THE NUB, IT'S COMING IT'S REAL, WHAT IS THIS?, MY PHANTOM LIMB
Least favorite track: LEAVING MEANING
fantano
Swans (2019)
“Leaving Meaning, while frequently stunning, feels more like a reiteration for Swans than it does an evolution.”
Favorite tracks: ANNALINE, SUNFUCKER, THE NUB, IT'S COMING IT'S REAL, WHAT IS THIS?, MY PHANTOM LIMB
Least favorite track: LEAVING MEANING
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pitchfork
Michael Gira reshuffles his famous band’s lineup, inviting collaborators like the Necks and Ben Frost for a record that emphasizes elegiac beauty over raging catharsis.
thelineofbestfit
Swans' Leaving Meaning is a customarily monolithic work of experimental rock
exclaim
Some songs stick to the usual anarchic ideas, "The Hanging Man" being a tasty cut worthy of inclusion on any forthcoming Best Of, but there are also introspective nightmare-lullabies like "Annaline," "Amnesia" and "Cathedrals of Heaven." ... Easygoing suits Gira.
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