Swans, who lately introduced their seventeenth studio album, Birthing, arriving Might 30 by way of Younger God Information/Mute, have confirmed their first North American tour in assist of the highly-anticipated launch, launching on Sept. 4 in Philadelphia.
Tickets are on-sale this Friday, March 21, at 10 a.m. native time. Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch open. Ticketing hyperlinks can be found by way of the Younger God Information web site (younggodrecords.com).
Swans North American tour dates:
- September 4 Philadelphia, PA Union Switch
- September 5 Washington, DC The Howard Theatre
- September 6 Norfolk, VA The NorVa
- September 9 Dallas, TX Granada Theater
- September 10 Austin, TX Mohawk Austin
- September 12 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theater
- September 13 Tucson, AZ The Rialto Theatre
- September 15 Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room
- September 16 Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room
- September 17 Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room
- September 20 San Francisco, CA Nice American Music Corridor
- September 21 San Francisco, CA Nice American Music Corridor
- September 23 Seattle, WA The Neptune Theatre
- September 24 Portland, OR Revolution Corridor
- September 27 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater
- September 28 Omaha, NE Ready Room Showroom
- September 30 Chicago, IL Cabaret Metro
- October 1 Detroit, MI The Magic Bag
- October 3 Toronto, ON Phoenix Live performance Theatre
- October 4 Montreal, QC Théâtre Nationwide
- October 6 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Membership
- October 7 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Metal
Previous to the Swans tour, Michael Gira embarks on a solo European run, joined by Kristof Hahn for the 12- date outing, which additionally features a efficiency at Roadburn. Tickets are on-sale now.
- April 9 Prague, CZ Meet Manufacturing unit
- April 10 Linz, AT Grüner Anker
- April 12 Trieste, IT Teatro Miela
- April 13 Milan, IT Spazio Teatro 89
- April 15 Brussels, BE Historic Belgique
- April 17 London, UK EartH
- April 18 Paris, FR Café de la Danse
- April 20 Tilburg, NL Roadburn Competition
- April 21 Cologne, DE Helios 37
- April 23 Leipzig, DE Heilandskirche
- April 25 Warsaw, PL Palladium
- April 27 Berlin, DE Heimathafen Neukölln
A preview of Birthing, produced by Gira and recorded at Soundfabrik Berlin, may be heard by way of the lately launched track, “I Am A Tower.”
Gira shared perception into the brand new album, in addition to perception into the way forward for Swans:
“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. Two items had been created and carried out within the studio (‘Purple 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. I’m blessed to have such a stellar group of musicians to work with dwell, 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 usually hear on this assortment.
This album, coupled with the latest dwell launch, Dwell Rope, constitutes my closing foray (as producer / impresario) into the all-consuming sound worlds which have been my obsession for years. We’ll do a closing tour on this mode in the direction of the top of 2025, then that’s it.
After that, Swans will proceed, as long as I’m ready, however in a considerably pared down kind. Hints of that route may be present in just a few moments on the present album. Within the meantime, my hope is that the music offers a optimistic and fertile environment through which to dream.”
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About Swans
Michael Gira based Swans in 1982. Initially identified for his or her brutal, high-volume onslaughts of sound and the intense, abject imagery of Gira’s lyrics and his thundering vocals, Swans underwent a sequence of startling transformations over the following 15 years. After early punishing albums like Filth and Cop, they explored proto-industrial rock with Greed, atmospheric and martial parts on Youngsters of God (1987), acoustic meditations on The Burning World (1989), and grand, melody-dense sonic whirlwinds with White Mild from the Mouth of Infinity (1991) and Love of Life (1993), earlier than changing into extra dissonant and sharp-edged with The Nice Annihilator (1994). Lastly, the last word assertion of that epoch of Swans, Soundtracks for the Blind, mixed all of those parts throughout nicely over two hours of music. Gira disbanded the group, shifting focus to Angels of Mild and his Younger God Information label, fostering artists like Devendra Banhart and Akron/Household. In 2010, he revived Swans with My Father Will Information Me Up a Rope to the Sky to ecstatic essential response adopted by The Seer (2012) and To Be Form (2014), with each incomes essential and business success, resulting in sold-out excursions and a number of Billboard chart placements. The Glowing Man (2017) marked the top of that Swans incarnation, with Leaving Which means (2019) and The Beggar (2023) persevering with Gira’s work with an evolving lineup.