Swans Birthing
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MillionDead
June 13th 2025


6307 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

It's as good as The Glowing Man, I'd say. I need to go back and finish Leaving Meaning and The Beggar, but when I tried those out, I couldn't find the urge to finish them.

suppatime
June 13th 2025


1999 Comments


damn son swans is making the power users come out.

zethmal you've been on this site since 2011 and have 12 comments? and rogueten that was your first in 11 years? or did all y'alls comments get wiped whenever that shit happened. either way i thought i was in the shadows but y'all ballin out sheesh.

Tunaboy45
June 14th 2025


18962 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This feels like a companion piece to The Glowing Man, more than anything else. I think The Beggar is slightly underrated, I've said it elsewhere but time will be very kind to that album. Well worth a listen from front to back.

RogueTen
June 15th 2025


3 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

suppatime

mostly every couple years I try to remember my password to update my rankings but I visit all the time to look at the charts. something inside me said it was finally time

someone said you cant make an account here anymore is that true? im just doing my part

TheArtofTheGanja
June 15th 2025


457 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

seems so. the deletion of the forum killed functionality. you can't have an avatar anymore if you didn't already have one

Sevengill
June 15th 2025


13143 Comments


the slow death continues

CottonSalad
June 15th 2025


3275 Comments


obsessed with this album tbh

as good as The Glowing man [2]

unclereich
June 15th 2025


14033 Comments


rogueten has no relation to roguenine?

Pikazilla
June 15th 2025


32373 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I am rogueeleven

unclereich
June 15th 2025


14033 Comments


fourthroguereich

hamid95
June 22nd 2025


1328 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

the consistent use of vocal collages really does the heavy lifting for this album to have its own identity.



a whole bunch of well-trodden territories (trilogy era, angels of light stuff, soundtracks, annihilator, even a bit of love of life) but i love 'the merge' for splicing in some body lovers shit. that project's a really overlooked goodie in gira's career



not that i didn't enjoy 'the beggar', but it was somewhat uneven for me so i never got back to it. and 'leaving meaning' was a snooze no matter how many times i spun it.



all of that to say, this one's good. agree with everyone that this seems more the natural trajectory to follow 'the glowing man'.

kkarron
June 24th 2025


1846 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Yah finally gave this a go and it's a very... reflective album. You can see so many nods to Gira's past projects everywhere. Luckily not in a bad way.

DDDeftoneDDD
June 30th 2025


23535 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Chore x(

mryrtmrnfoxxxy
June 30th 2025


16953 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

post-rock is so lame. it shouldn't have lived past 2009

Ambrosian
July 7th 2025


281 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

This has been in my to listen to list for a while, it's a heavy burden, 2hours of Swans

hamid95
July 8th 2025


1328 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

i usually stop about halfway through and pick up again later in the day

suppatime
July 22nd 2025


1999 Comments


i feel that rogue, i'm always looking at charts and saving stuff to listen to but only comment when i'm in the mood lol. and yeah big rip on the avis, mine got wiped and i miss it every day

SAPoodle
August 4th 2025


877 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Rather than growing on me like I hoped this would, I seem to get less enthused about it each time around. The only song that sticks with me is Rope (Away) and the rest feel so much longer and more tedious than they need to be. Still good, though, just not SWANS level good

gabba
August 4th 2025


2848 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah, apart from the middle section, I can’t really get into it either. It’s good, but I just jammed To Be Kind and it smashes this one in every way. Even Leaving Meaning is more engaging as a whole.

arapinho1
August 12th 2025


451 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

We can be towers just for one day. I laughed at that comment on yt. It does sound similar





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