Swans - LIVE ROPE

Originally released in November 2024 as a physical, limited edition physical only boxset, Swans’ ‘LIVE ROPE’ is now being made available as a double CD. A document of the band’s US / EU 2023-24 live tours, this material laid the blueprint for the band’s most recent studio album, ‘Birthing’, released May 2025. Spanning almost three hours of trance-inducing melodies that morph into dense walls of sound, the album is anchored by Michael Gira’s unmistakable vocals and crafted with longtime collaborators on lap steel, bass, Mellotron and dynamic percussion. Gira proclaims that the album was forged “with soul-lacerating commitment and relentless pursuit of our own truth through sound.”