{"id":4333,"date":"2025-07-31T23:34:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2025-08-16T00:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T22:04:43","slug":"swans-birthing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/music\/swans-birthing\/","title":{"rendered":"SWANS &#8211; BIRTHING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Artist:\u00a0<strong>Swans<\/strong><br>Album:\u00a0<strong>Birthing<\/strong><br>Label:\u00a0<strong>Mute<\/strong><br>Link:\u00a0<strong>https:\/\/mute.com\/artists\/swans\/<\/strong><br>Style:\u00a0<strong>Rock, Alternative &amp; Indie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A band that has undergone many iterations, with regular breaks and changes in line-up, Swans remains led by guitarist and singer Michael Gira. Initially close to Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth, the band has changed style while retaining a heavy and dark foundation. Far from being a softie, the singer even regularly displayed violence towards his concert audiences in the early years, and despite a significant aura within the indie rock community, the band&#8217;s commercial success remained limited, to the point of causing problems with the MCA label and pushing the artists to develop a business model that financed the recording of studio albums through the sale of live records or other projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now firmly established in a slow-tempo industrial sound, the Swans of 2025 plunge us into twilight, almost post-apocalyptic atmospheres in which there is little room for proto-melodies. On long tracks, which bring the album to almost two hours in length, Michael Gira chants morbid and violent lyrics, somewhere between screams and incantations, against a backdrop of distorted and saturated guitars, spread out over a carpet of percussion that seems to come from distant horizons. Despite everything, the original high standards that have always dominated the band&#8217;s destiny are still present in this dark new opus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if the atmospheres are marked and heavy, they are not the result of an impenetrable amalgam. The elements that make them up remain clearly legible. First and foremost, the vocals reveal all their intonations and are sometimes accompanied by backing vocals. The guitar demonstrates a beautiful variety of tones, with a few acoustic parts always inserted into a light maelstrom of sounds. Finally, the percussion plays a central role in the sense of mass that emerges when listening to&nbsp;<em>Birthing<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With rigor, the band Swans releases albums that remain difficult to access but never disappoint fans of their dark rock, somewhere between gothic and industrial. Such is once again the case with Birthing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":4334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[159,172,175],"class_list":["post-4333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-alternative","tag-indie","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4335,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions\/4335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}