Swans
Live Rope (2CD)
LabelMuteGenreExperimental
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Originally released in November 2024 as a physical only, limited edition physical boxset, Swans’ Live Rope is now being made on CD at retail. 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 3 hours of trance-inducing melodies that morph into dense walls of sound, the album is anchored by Gira’s unmistakable vocals and crafted with longtime collaborators on lap steel, bass, Mellotron and dynamic percussion. Gira proclaims the album was forged ” with soul-lacerating commitment and relentless pursuit of our own truth through sound...”
Release notes
Issued in a 6-panel clear trays digipak with a double-sided card insert. Hype sticker on plastic foil. Swans Live Rope Double CD "With soul-lacerating commitment and relentless pursuit of their own truth through sound, Swans managed - over the course of a year's endless touring, of improvisation and revision and failure and resuscitation - to forge a set of music that was in the end in explicable, especially to themselves" ℗ & © 2026 Young God Records LLC. under exclusive license…
| 1-1 | Rope | 25:29 | |
| 1-2 | The Beggar | 52:53 | |
| 2-1 | The Hanging Man | 12:52 | |
| 2-2 | Away | 7:51 | |
| 2-3 | Birthing | 37:27 | |
| 2-4 | Cathedrals Of Heaven | 11:16 |
- Michael Gira
- Acoustic Guitar, Voice, Art Direction, Design, Drawing [Swirl Drawings]
- Christopher Pravdica
- Bass Guitar, Taishōgoto [Taishogoto], Loops, Sounds
- Phil Puleo
- Drawing [Animal Caricatures], Drums, Hammered Dulcimer [Hammer Dulcimer], Flute, Melodica, Layout
- Dana Schechter
- Lap Steel Guitar, Bass Guitar, Loops
- Kristof Hahn
- Lap Steel Guitar, Loops
- Doug Henderson
- Mastered By (1-1 to 2-3)
- Ingo Krauss
- Mastered By (2-4), Mixed By (1-1 to 2-3)
- Larry Mullins
- Mellotron, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Drums, Sounds
- Thomas Stern
- Mixed By (2-4)
- Jerry Melcher
- Recorded By, Engineer [Swans Live Mix Engineer]
