Tag: Swans

Album Reviews

Nadja: Labyrinthine

Nadja (photo credit: Janina Gallert)

Features Interviews

Some Gift: An Interview with Enablers

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 29, 2022
4 Comments on Some Gift: An Interview with Enablers

Enablers

Tags Chris Summerlin, dAVID hAND, Enablers, hey colossus, Joe Goldring, Joe Thompson, Kevin Thomson, Neurot Recordings, Sam Ospovat, Swans, Wrong Speed Records, Years

Features Interviews

Mondkopf Interview: “I would take a Robbie Basho album to a desert island”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 2, 2022
6 Comments on Mondkopf Interview: “I would take a Robbie Basho album to a desert island”

Mondkopf

Tags Daniel Bachman, Erik K. Skodvin, Miashma Recordings, Mondkopf, Nahal Recordings, Norman Westberg, Oiseaux-Tempête, Paul Régimbeau, Robbie Basho, Sarah Davachi, Stéphane Pigneul, Swans, The Necks, Tony Buck, Wilburn Burchette

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Skin Blood Women Roses: An Interview with Jarboe

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 11, 2022
4 Comments on Skin Blood Women Roses: An Interview with Jarboe

Jarboe (photo credit: J. Williams)

Tags Consouling Sounds, Godflesh, Jarboe, John Coltrane, Justin Broadrick, Kazimier Stockroom, Michael Gira, Neurosis, Record Store Day, Swans

Features Interviews

Sneers. Interview: “We weren’t thinking of a specific situation but a general feeling”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 4, 2022
1 Comment on Sneers. Interview: “We weren’t thinking of a specific situation but a general feeling”

Sneers.. (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Father Murphy, Freddie Murphy, God Unknown Records, Leonardo O. Stefenelli, M.G Blaankart, nick cave, Paul Beauchamp, pj harvey, Sneers., Sonic Youth, Swans

Album Reviews

Loop: Sonancy

Loop (photo credit: Simon Holliday)

Tags All Tomorrow’s Parties, Dan Boyd, Hugo Morgan, Loop, Main, Neil Mackay, Philip K. Dick, Robert Hampson, Spaceman 3, Swans, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Stooges, Wayne Maskell

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #4

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 29, 2021
11 Comments on Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #4

13 Questions

13 Questions with Geese

Geese (Credit: Artist's Facebook)

Tags Butch Vig, Cameron Winter, Deerhoof, Fontaines D.C, Geese, IDLES, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Led Zeppelin, Partisan Records, Radiohead, Remi Wolf, Swans, Thee Oh Sees, They Might Be Giants, Ty Segall

Album Reviews

Prison Behaviour: Snake Fever EP – “soundscapes to accompany your worst nightmares”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 11, 2021
4 Comments on Prison Behaviour: Snake Fever EP – “soundscapes to accompany your worst nightmares”

Prison Behaviour (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Cavalier Song, Kraftwerk, Lonesaw, Mark E. Smith, Mark Greenwood, new order, Prison Behaviour, Suicide, Swans

Features Interviews

LONESAW Interview: “we just make the art we make”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 1, 2021
20 Comments on LONESAW Interview: “we just make the art we make”

LONESAW (photo credit: John Middleton)

Tags a.P.A.t.T, ABBA, Ben Bones, Ben Duvall, Brad Maldon, Chrissy Connor, Einstürzende Neubauten, Ex-Easter Island Head, Jack Wait, Jezebel Halewood-Legas, Jon Stonehouse, Lisa Fawcett, Lonesaw, Madonna, SPINE, Stephen Cole, Swans, What Studio

Album Reviews

SUMAC: May You Be Held – “like trying to escape from tangled barbed wire”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 26, 2020
1 Comment on SUMAC: May You Be Held – “like trying to escape from tangled barbed wire”

SUMAC (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Aaron Turner, Baptists, Brian Cook, Faith Coloccia, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, House of Low Culture, ISIS, Jodis, Keiji Haino, Mammifer, Nick Yacyshyn, Old Man Gloom, Russian Circles, Split Cranium, Sumac, Summer Of Seveteen, Swans, These Arms Are Snakes

Album Reviews

Human Impact: Human Impact – “Music that tiptoes on the razor wire”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 29, 2020
1 Comment on Human Impact: Human Impact – “Music that tiptoes on the razor wire”

Human Impact (photo credit: Jammi York)

Members of Swans and Cop Shoot Cop team up to make a cauldron of white noise on their debut release.

Tags Big Black, Cop Shoot Cop, Human Impact, Ipecac Recordings, Michael Gira, Mike Patton, Swans, The Jesus Lizard, Tomahawk, Unsane

Interviews

Daughters interview: “The lion at the bottom of the mountain is hungrier than the lion at the top”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date July 13, 2020
3 Comments on Daughters interview: “The lion at the bottom of the mountain is hungrier than the lion at the top”

Tags Chelsea Wolfe, Daughters, Emma Ruth Rundle, Laguna Ignota, Prince, Sun O))), Swans