What Is This?

by Swans

What Is This? cover art
  • Type: EP
  • Released: 18 March 2019
  • Label: Young God Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:07:45

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Another crucial fundraiser release for Young God Records, 'What Is This?' provided fans with intimate, bare-bones acoustic demos recorded by Michael Gira, serving as the skeletal foundation for the acclaimed 2019 Swans album 'Leaving Meaning'.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, Acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Leaving Meaning (6:32)
  2. The Hanging Man (10:02)
  3. Amnesia (6:10)
  4. The Nub (5:49)
  5. Cathedrals Of Heaven (6:20)
  6. Sunfucker (6:29)
  7. What Is This? (5:20)
  8. My Phantom Limb (11:24)
  9. Annaline (3:50)
  10. It's Coming And It's Real (5:49)

Credits

  • Nicole Boitos - other [handmade package with woodblock print, uncredited]
  • Doug Henderson - mastered by [mastering]
  • Kevin McMahon - recorded by

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