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Album Format Label & Cat. Number Description Year Price (incl. 19% VAT)  
The Seer do-CD Young Good Records YG45 the praised new epic studio album (almost 120 minutes of material) - the condensation of 30 years SWANS - standard edition 2012 €20.00
To be kind do-CD & DVD Mute Records LCDSTUMM364 / Young God YG46 their new monstrous masterpiece, this is the lim. do-CD version with a bonus DVD feat. a live / festival performance from 2013 with almost 110min. of filmed material in b/w => "epic sonic sprawl, droned out and psychedelic, hypnotic and heavy, more sound than song, impossibly abstract, and yet utterly entrancing, like a twisted, more avant garde abstract GODSPEED mutated into some sort of dense, blackened, gloriously majestic, and yet strangely minimal demonic drone-dirge songsuite" [Aquarius Records] 2014 €22.50
White Light from the Mouth of Infinity / Love of Life 3 x CD MUTE CDSTUMM 377 / Young God Records YG49 re-issues of "White Light.." (1991) and "Love of Life" (1992), plus a bonus CD with 18 tracks of outtakes & rare live material; all re-mastered, with different cover artwork than the vinyl version 2015 €22.50
The Glowing Man (special ed.) do-CD & DVD Mute Records LCDSTUMM389 "The final album by the Swans. Finally, Peace." [MICHAEL GIRA] - 8 tracks spread on 2 CDs, with three epic pieces over 20 minutes, sounding more atmospheric, dense and hypnotic as before.... "The love in his music is as terrible as it is beautiful, a wrenching act of spiritual determination." [Pitchfork] special editions comes with bonus DVD ! (live 2015) 2016 €20.00
Leaving Meaning do-CD Mute CDSTUMM446 first SWANS album after the dissolution of the previous lineup (2010-2017), recorded with an amazing array of guest musicians such as THE NECKS, ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF, BEN FROST, BABY DEE, etc... going again more into a very fruitful songwriting and hypnotic jazz / folk / drone direction, without ignoring the experimental / cacophonic noise side... CD version with extended mixes and additional track not on the vinyl ! 2019 €18.50
Children of God do-LP Mute - STUMM394 / Young God Rec. YG66 remastered re-issue of the praised 1987 album which marked a big change and transition for the band, musically + thematically: "I was watching a lot of Jimmy Swaggart on TV (the televangelist), and I thought he was a great rock performer, so I stole his thunder as best I could....I didn’t want to mock the religious impulse, which would have been a typical thing to do at the time, but instead to get inside it." [MICHAEL GIRA] - printed inner sleeves, remastered "Feel Good Now" DL extra 2020 €20.00
Where Does A Body End? DVD MVD 4075DVD the great film from last year about the SWANS phenomenon, with lots of never-seen-before recordings, videos and photographs, especially from their incredible beginnings in NYC, feat. interviews with MICHAEL GIRA and many others like JARBOE, THURSTON MOORE, FOETUS, BLIXA BARGELD, etc.. run time 161 min.! - "The film is many things, a musical history, a time-capsule, a tour diary, a concert film, but mostly it's the story of a life in the arts..." 2020 €15.00
Where does a Body end? (deluxe ed.) 2 x BLU-RAY MVD 4075DVD* the great film from last year about the SWANS phenomenon, with lots of never-seen-before recordings, videos and photographs, especially from their incredible beginnings in NYC, feat. interviews with MICHAEL GIRA and many others like JARBOE, THURSTON MOORE, FOETUS, BLIXA BARGELD, etc.. run time 161 min.! - lim. deluxe BLU RAY edition with one full disc of bonus material !! 2020 €23.00
Public Castration is a good Idea do-LP Mute - STUMM394 / Young God Rec. YG66   2022 €25.00
The Beggar do-LP Youjng God Records YG67 / MUTE Stumm489 *Todessehnsüchte eines Toxikers* - MICHAEL GIRA got 69 and this marks a return to more folky, romantic, and mellow areas; beyond catharsis and rage, recorded in Berlin... »Just by thinking I’m here / I will soon disappear. / Who cares and who knows / where I’ve been or will go?« - *Housed in a gatefold sleeve. Contains an insert, a poster, and a download code. Download includes extra 44 minute track, The Beggar Lover (Three), not featured on the vinyl.* 2023 €45.00
The Beggar do-CD Young God Records YG67 / MUTE Stumm489 *Todessehnsüchte eines Toxikers* - MICHAEL GIRA got 69 and this marks a return to more folky, romantic, and mellow areas; beyond catharsis and rage, recorded in Berlin... »Just by thinking I’m here / I will soon disappear. / Who cares and who knows / where I’ve been or will go?« Comes in a 6-panel embossed Digipak with transparent trays, and a pocket for the booklet on the outer left panel; contains a 12-page fold-out booklet with lyrics, credits, and a thanks list. 2023 €21.50