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Release Date
24 October 2019
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Length
12 tracks
leaving meaning. is the fifteenth studio album by American post rock band Swans.
the album returns to the neofolk sound explored on My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky, the band’s early 90’s output, and especially Gira’s side project Angels of Light while also maintaining the meditative arrangement styles expressed on Swans' post-rock material.
The name of this album is a nod towards Michael Gira’s distaste for presumptuous lyrical interpretation. The lyrics of this album evade both meaning and interpretation. Though the lyrics are often nonsensical when closely observed, this was by design. It almost serves as a signed reminder from Gira that all meaning applied to creative work is just that; applied. As humans we apply superficial meaning to art (as well as our own lives) in order to bring a convenient but unnatural order to natural chaos. This record aptly attempts to escape that meaning, and instead embrace the natural chaos.
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