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its not surprising that gira transcended this, first into a kind of sombre, dulled and slightly miserable romanticism, and now into this cosmic perversity.
this isn't a criticism of gira the person, because i think in early swans he got as far as anyone ever could into the depths of self created human hells. obviously since we can't really reach out of our own perspectives and biological drives, you can only go so far in mapping them before you have to pull back and make some sort of peace with it all.
so this probably explains why early swans is the sound of being embedded in the nightmare, of trying to cut a path through it by reducing it to brutal mechanical logic, and everything after the "love will tear us apart" cover is comes from a perspective looking down on the humans and lamenting/commenting on them.
and its telling that gira had second thoughts about that cover and at one point claimed it was no longer part of the swans canon.
im going to listen to all the stuff swans have done since the reformation and post about it later.
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