Needles & Grooves

Hooray!!! Hopefully this is better than Leaving Meaning.

And it's over two hours

Holy crap. How will they split up a 44 minute song,

@Sonicpharmacist LM was a transition album, and the first album since the band reformed in 2010 to be "Michael Gira and others" (the previous 2010s albums all featured the same lineup). I, too, am hoping this new album is an improvement on LM, but in the sense that LM was a new foundation for Swans to build on (like 2010's MFWGMuaRttS was the foundation for Swans' brilliant 3 records following).

@Hemotep I mean, their 2012, 2014, and 2016 albums were all right at the 2 hour mark. So this is nothing new

That's a good point about the transition, hadn't considered that. I always thought of LM as a "farewell" of sorts, since Gira said that he would be ending that incarnation of Swans. Regardless, I preordered way back when they had the "Is There Really A Mind" handmade CD, so I'm in anyways!

Looks like I finally need to start listening to swans... I'm not ready for a 44 minute track tbh

I'd say it's not as bad as you'd think but I've already been here for it, I mean, what's a 44-minute track amongst 30-mins, not to mention "The Knot" or "Look At Me Go." HMU if you'd like any advice I guess.

@musicjunkiegreg It's not unexpected from them, more of an excitement that we get another that long! I think I'm in the minority in loving long ass albums,

@Hemotep same! I'm drawn to long albums and long songs.

preorder up for signed poster insert copies! I tagged you there too, but here's link: The Beggar (PRE-ORDER)

Tour announced as well, or at least they have an Omaha show incoming.