Ted Falconi's icy guitar scraping and the relentless beat of drummer Steve DePace

built from thick synthesizer tones and colliding field recordings

Shirk Studios (Chicago)

Adventurous

brilliantly reconfigured and mixed by Bekaert to create a surreal

SWANS - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky LP doom Ted Falconi's icy guitar scrapingAfter years of pursuing Angels of Light and recording and producing a diverse roster of artists for his Young God label, Michael Gira has decided to reconvene his legendary group Swans. As he says: THIS IS NOT A REUNION. Its not some dumb ass nostalgia act. It is not repeating the past. After 5 Angels Of Light albums, I needed a way to move FORWARD, in a new direction, and it just so happens that revivifying the idea of Swans is allowing me to do