Swans - The BeggarSwans present their sixteenth studio album, The Beggar. The Beggar was written and produced by founding member Michael Gira and features contributions from recent and former Swans members and members of Angels Of Light, as well as guest Swan, Ben Frost. Following 2019s Leaving Meaning, this album emerged from the 2020 lockdown with Michael explaining, after numerous pandemic induced cancellations of tours for the previous Swans album Leaving Meaning,

NIck Movshon and Leon MIchels (Menahan Street Band)

The Oh Sees

It’s a joyful experience to be riding this big undulating ripple of water with a pal alongside you

The English Riviera marked a breakout moment in the band’s history that would lead them to global success and see them constantly developing their sound for a decade to come

“Clouds”

with strikingly evocative and despondent lyrics

As a handy best-of or taster for further investigation we hope you’ll enjoy this selection

virtuosity and taste

Drum Story (14

composing sumptuous and wildly original music that teems with ideas and more than delivers on the promise of its predecessor

making the lo-fi

sanitized in studio and scrubbed of feeling