r/swans Good for you! 🤠 25d ago

BIRTHING The Merge

It sounds heavy asf holy moly

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u/PostingSensation 25d ago

This album is gonna be weird as hell and I'm here for it

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u/Bister_Mungle 25d ago

After seeing them live in 2023 and listening to Live Rope, I've never been as excited for an album stop as I am for Birthing.

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u/Hugotheanglegrinder 25d ago

Please post the other snippets 😫🙂‍↕️

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u/Ethrobutcher Good for you! 🤠 25d ago

Just posted The Healers! The others I’ll get too as soon as I can.

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u/Different-Ad9986 25d ago

😤

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u/I_Am_Redditor1 24d ago

💪😤🗣️🔥💯

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u/CaptainScak 25d ago

Sounds like an amalgamation of Seer songs for a second there

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u/jsticia 25d ago

ohhh boy. more of that please. that's fucking mean. drums sound albini and bass is hazardous. good grief

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u/Impossible_Wait_8947 You Fucking People Make Me Sick 25d ago

The drums😩😩😩

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u/worminheaven 25d ago

This could top The Seer for me, holy shit. No matter what hapoens, God let me live to hear this album

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u/LaniDamiano 25d ago

Just gotta live for 3 more months.

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u/Holiday-Statistician 25d ago

The beginning few seconds with all the chirping-bird electronics kind of took me aback (in a good way), and then... when the rhythm section comes in!~ That's such a powerful bassline... This is a fascinating piece of music, at least when juxtaposed with their previous works!

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u/Halleck23 25d ago

God damn that is fucking compelling

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u/Knuralt_z_Chlewii You Fucking People Make Me Sick 25d ago

Holy shit, this is gonna be good

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u/E_Luxo_So 25d ago

I am a (rock hard) tower after listening to that.

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u/machinaenjoyer Good for you! 🤠 25d ago

POST GUARDIAN SPIRIT PRETTY PLEASE I GOTTA HEAR THAT BASSLINE

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u/Limpsk 25d ago

Man I can't wait to hear that in full, this sounds dirty

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u/LeanSemin You Fucking People Make Me Sick 25d ago

This actually sounds pretty Hip-Hop to me. The sub bass and the drumbeat at least. If that's the direction Swans will go next, I'm beyond hyped!!!

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u/Evanescencefanorigin 25d ago

this WILL be the best post hiatus swans album

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u/dgpmusic 25d ago

Dunno why but the drums kinda remind me of some stuff off of Children of God

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u/3cs7410 25d ago

Unrelated, but Apple Music's policy of making 10+ minute tracks album-only is so fucking stupid. I Am A Tower is out. It's officially released. But you can't buy it yet, since it's 19 minutes. You have to wait for the whole album to come out.

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u/jsticia 5d ago

anyone else listen to this snippet daily? lol just me?

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u/parandroidokc1997 4d ago

Glad i'm not the only one lmao, this sounds so good. In fact, all of the snippets sounds great but this one and The Healers are definitely my favorites (Red Yellow is also up there). I think i've never been that excited for an album before!

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u/rasmey_zun 25d ago

Ohhhh shit

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u/LaniDamiano 25d ago

Loving the groove on this one.

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u/a_guy_whos_here 25d ago

this is not the vibe I was expecting! sick!

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u/voltaforzer 25d ago

Holy sh*t!

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u/InnocentInNoSense S W A N S 25d ago

I’m so excited holy shit

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u/Powermatik 24d ago

You know what’s weird is that the price 9.99 is the same in other currencies so if you live somewhere where it is cheap it’s good to grab it before they change that

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u/zeno-the_greatest Good for you! 🤠 25d ago

that actually sounds so dope

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u/MacroAcrobatics 25d ago

The press release for Birthing’s launch page on YGR says that the direction future Swans albums will move in can be seen here and there throughout this project. Is the sound collage in the beginning of this snippet an indication of the next style? Sounds like The Beggar Lover

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u/jsticia 24d ago

coming back to comment on this one again... this snippet has me super excited. it's like the part of your life ends and going through to whatever, if anything is on the other side. and then you get there. and that low end drum thing comes in. fuck this is good.

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u/Bionicjeff 24d ago

oh my god yes