Show Preview: Swans @ the Neptune, Fr. 8/25 ~Dagmar Swans It’s the end of Swans as we’ve known them. The beyond experimental band (what would that be? Answer: Swans. Naturally) returns to Seattle this Friday, August 25th as headliners at the Neptune. Now, it doesn’t matter where Swans plays, they’ll be awesome anywhere, but the […]
Album Review: Swans‘ The Glowing Man ~Nick Nihil It’s both amazing and not too surprising at this point that a band as visionary, talented, and experienced as Swans can continue to evolve and deepen their uniquely monolithic attack. They’re certainly not the only band identified by heavy, droning dirges that find meditative peace within force […]
Nick Nihil’s Favorite Albums of 2014: Swans: To Be Kind As good as, if not better than, their last record, The Seer, which makes it as good as, if not better than anything else they’ve released across their history. Best band on the planet right now. Swans – To Be Kind ~ Jacob Cooper: Silver […]
Swans with special guest Carla Bozulich, 9/4/2014 Review by Nick Nihil Photos by Dagmar Swans‘ Michael Gira Carla Bozulich has always been an odd one. I mean that in the best way. Touring with a trio, which she says is incredibly difficult for her material, she began the show hopping around on stage as a […]
I could tell that Swans were really happy about how Saturday night’s show went. And they should have been happy about it. While the audience applauded and moved to the music, there was very little – if no – conversation among the capacity crowd. Instead, they hung onto each lyric and note. Swans’ music can […]