Swans

Swans: Dead Heat

Interview by Biba Kopf, NME, March 1986

"The ultimate manifestation of power and authority is torture and rape" – the SWANS take it from there, to the ear of BIBA KOPF ...

Swans: Greed

Review by Don Watson, NME, March 1986

WHAT IS the sound of a Swan in love? ...

Swans: Holy Money

Review by Dele Fadele, NME, September 1986

HAS THE vocabulary been conceived, reduced or minimal enough to transmit the gravity or even sonority of those emotions laid bare on this, this, this ...

Swans: Blubber, Blood & Bucks

Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, January 1987

No other group creates such extreme reactions as SWANS. For some, they are a bunch of American charlatans making the worst noise in the world; ...

Black Saint: Michael Gira Goes Solo

Report and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, May 1999

FIRST IMPRESSIONS do last, so I'll always remember Michael Gira as the "revenant black saint" he goes on to describe himself as in the lyrics ...