Iconic avant-rockers Swans celebrate the release of The Glowing Man, the fourth and final studio album from this line-up since their reactivation by band leader Michael Gira after a 14 year hiatus, with their customary year-long world-wide touring.
Michael Gira founded the seminal NYC band Swans in 1982. Quickly infamous for their punishing, brutal and repetitive onslaughts of sound, extreme volume levels, and the self-abusing, abject shouts and growls of Gira's sloganeering vocals, Swans gradually transformed over 15 years, ultimately venturing into harsh mechanical proto-industrial rock, to sprawling shifts of texture and perspective, to gentle acoustic-based songs, and finally on to their ultimate statement, Soundtracks For The Blind which somehow incorporated all of these elements at once. At this point, Gira called it quits after 15 years of relentless touring and productivity, and disbanded Swans.
In 2010, he reactivated the band, releasing four studio albums over the next six years, the last three being two hours long apiece each receiving enormous critical acclaim and touring to consistently packed houses worldwide year after year.
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