Having recently announced a May 30th release for their upcoming seventeenth studio album, Birthing, on Young God Records/Mute, Swans, have now confirmed their first North American tour in support of the record. Kicking off on Sept. 4 in Philadelphia, with Little Annie and Paul Wallfisch opening, tickets are on-sale Friday, March 21, at 10 a.m. local time. Find live listings and more below.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Swans – The Beggar
According to the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus, change is the only constant in life. Everything that comes into being is a product of conflicting opposites and that process of becoming never ends. We never stop becoming. We are never at rest. The music of Swans (and by extension that of songwriter/bandleader Michael Gira) is the embodiment of an ever-changing being, existing through the continual tension of opposing forces; never at rest.