The noise-rock band's 12th album is a cacophonous vault into the sublime. Yet for all its Wagnerian bombast, for all its incredible power, The... First Listen: Swans, 'The Seer' Audio for this feature ...

Swans founder Michael Gira isn't afraid to let songs wander around the half-hour mark. In conversation, on the other hand, he is relentlessly punctual. Perhaps he's been asked every conceivable ...

Move over, Baroness: Your title of strangest album of the year has been forfeited. In fact, if Baroness's accomplished work was a Greek god, then Swan's The Seer is surely the primordial titan Cronus, ...

Swans recorded live in 2013. Track listing: To Be Kind - Just a Little Boy - Coward - She Loves Us - Oxygen - The Seer - Bring The Sun / Toussaint L'Ouverture ...

SWANS recorded live 2013. Track listing: To Be Kind (20:41) - Just a Little Boy (10:06) - Coward (8:36) - She Loves Us (18:17) - Oxygen (7:17) - The Seer / Toussaint L'Ouverture (45:35) ...