Swans - Live Rope - 2CD

Release Date: 12th June 2026
Catalogue Number: CDSTUMM536

• Double CD
• Packaged in brown chipboard digi-pac
• You will also receive a link to download digital WAV files of the album on the release date

Originally released in November 2024 as a physical only, limited edition physical boxset, Swans’ Live Rope is now being made on CD at retail. A document of the band’s US/EU 2023-24 live tours, this material laid the blueprint for the band’s most recent studio album, Birthing, released May 2025. Spanning almost 3 hours of trance-inducing melodies that morph into dense walls of sound, the album is anchored by Gira’s unmistakable vocals and crafted with longtime collaborators on lap steel, bass, Mellotron and dynamic percussion. Gira proclaims the album was forged ” with soul-lacerating commitment and relentless pursuit of our own truth through sound...”

2CD in Swans’ signature brown board packaging – 1 pressing only

CD1.

1. Rope/The Beggar (78:24)

CD2.

1. The Hanging Man, Away, Birthing, Cathedrals of Heaven (69.28)
   

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