The lineup of Gira / Kizys / Westberg / Jarboe / Parsons was a really good version of the band - one of the best live versions of Swans ever – actually much more intense and visceral in performance than in the nuanced takes of the songs on these recordings

made up of equal parts heavy US hardcore and European melodic punk

the record explores much more than this

van Eeckhout (Amenra

“Hüsker Dön’t” too defies expectations as one of the poppiest songs in their discography with a chugging but clear chord progression and some of Chippendale’s least distorted vocals

ORUA - Passe LP Death Rock The lineup of Gira /Rio de Janeiro, where the mountains dramatically merge with the sea, is riddled with contradictions. Its a cliche to say that a city is full of contradictions, but Rio de Janeiro is not just any city. Many elements are often in opposition: the beauty of the coastline contrasting the decay of the center city; the wealth of the valleys and coastline at odds with the poverty of the hillside favelas and the periferia (periphery); the idyllic sand and surf