Swans announce new album ‘Birthing’ with sprawling 19-minute single ‘I Am A Tower’

Swans have introduced their seventeenth studio album ‘Birthing’ – you may take heed to new single ‘I Am A Tower’ beneath.

The New York Metropolis experimental rock band are resulting from launch the follow-up to 2023’s ‘The Beggar’ on Might 30 through Mute/Younger God. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.

In a press release, frontman Michael Gira shared some particulars about how the forthcoming LP got here to be, and informed followers that the venture would mark the top of Swans’ present incarnation.

“The fabric contained on this album was largely developed over the course of a yearlong Swans tour, throughout 2023-2024 (‘The Healers’, ‘I Am a Tower’, ‘Birthing’, ‘Guardian Spirit’, ‘Rope’, and ‘Away’), then recorded and additional orchestrated and rearranged within the studio,” he defined. “Two items had been created and carried out within the studio (‘Pink Yellow’, ‘The Merge’).

“In all circumstances the fabric started with me sitting in my workplace with an acoustic guitar, singing and dreaming about what would turn out to be of those skeletal songs.”

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Gira went on to say that he was “blessed to have such a stellar group of musicians to work with stay, and thru improvisation, countless revisions and an depth of focus in efficiency (to not point out endurance), over the course of time the music morphed into what you typically hear on this assortment”.

He continued: “This album, coupled with the latest stay launch, ‘Dwell Rope’, constitutes my closing foray (as producer/impresario) into the all-consuming sound worlds which were my obsession for years.

“We’ll do a closing tour on this mode in direction of the top of 2025, then that’s it. After that, Swans will proceed, as long as I’m in a position, however in a considerably pared down type. Hints of that course might be present in just a few moments on the present album.

“Within the meantime, my hope is that the music gives a optimistic and fertile ambiance during which to dream.”

To preview the album, Swans have shared a sprawling and atmospheric single known as ‘I Am A Tower’ – which clocks in at over 19 minutes lengthy. You'll be able to watch the official lyric video above.

Swans’ upcoming stay tour dates in help of ‘Birthday’ are set to comply with later, with Gira already scheduled to play some solo exhibits in Europe this spring.

Followers will be capable to buy the brand new file on triple vinyl (in a brown chipboard sleeve), double CD (in a brown chipboard digi-pack) and digitally.

Preliminary pressings of the triple vinyl and CD editions will include a bonus DVD that includes Swans Dwell 2024 (Rope) The Beggar, a stay live performance movie directed by Marco Porsia from the final Swans US tour, in addition to Christopher Nicholson’s documentary from Gira’s solo tour in 2022, titled I Surprise If I’m Singing What You’re Considering Me To Sing.

‘Birthing’ was produced by Gira, and recorded at Soundfabrik Berlin with recording engineer Ingo Krauss, assisted by Kiron Gaudi. The gathering was blended at Sweet Bomber Studio, Berlin by Ingo Krauss, and mastered by Doug Henderson at Micro-Moose, Berlin.

The tracklist for Swans’ ‘Birthing’ is:

‘The Healers’
‘I Am A Tower’
‘Birthing’
‘Pink Yellow’
‘Guardian Spirit’
‘The Merge’
‘Rope’
‘Away’