SWANS — Children Of God

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Album · 1987

Filed under Non-Metal
By SWANS

Tracklist


A1. New Mind (05:13)
A2. In My Garden (05:34)
A3. Our Love Lies (05:50)
B1. Sex, God, Sex (06:49)
B2. Blood and Honey (04:46)
B3. Like a Drug (Sha La La La) (05:35)
C1. You're Not Real, Girl (04:21)
C2. Beautiful World (05:16)
C3. Blackmail (03:33)
C4. Trust Me (04:27)
D1. Real Love (06:23)
D2. Blind Love (07:46)
D3. Children of God (04:34)

Total Time 69:37


CD edition:

1. New Mind (05:13)
2. In My Garden (05:34)
3. Our Love Lies (05:50)
4. Sex, God, Sex (06:49)
5. Blood and Honey (04:46)
6. Like a Drug (Sha La La La) (05:35)
7. You're Not Real, Girl (04:21)
8. Beautiful World (05:16)
9. Blackmail (03:33)
10. Trust Me (04:27)
11. [untitled] (00:57)
12. Real Love (06:23)
13. Blind Love (07:46)
14. Children of God (04:34)

Total Time 71:11

Line-up/Musicians


- Michael Gira / vocals, sounds, keyboards, acoustic guitar
- Norman Westberg / electric and acoustic guitar
- Jarboe / vocals, all female background vocals, sounds, piano
- Algis Kizys / bass
- Theodore Parsons / drums, percussion
- William Barnhardt / piano on "Blackmail"
- Simon Fraser / flute on "In My Garden"
- Lindsay Cooper / oboe on "Blackmail" and "Trust Me"
- Audrey Riley / cello on "Like A Drug"

About this release

CD, cassette and 12" vinyl 2LP released 19th October 1987 on Caroline Records (CAR 01346-2).

12" vinyl 2LP released 1987 on Grabaciones Accidentales (GA-212) / Wire Records (WILP 004) / Fringe Product (FPL3055) / Product Inc. (33 PROD 17) / Rampant Releases (RR 062).

12" vinyl 2LP released 1988 on Penguin (30036).

Thanks to triceratopsoil, Bosh66 for the updates

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Warthur
The culmination of Swans' early post-punk no wave era offers up what is, for the most part, a unique sonic experience. Not entirely - album opener New Mind sounds like The Fall so much I swear that Michael Gira is doing some sort of Mark E. Smith impersonation on the vocals. Dark post-punk nearly-gothic music running down religion isn't exactly rare, but music which sounds like it's full on dead and rotting on the inside like some sort of sonic zombie is a whole other deal. It's no surprise that from here they went down the full-on gothic neofolk route they took from The Burning World onwards, because this takes their early sound about as far as it can go without descending into absurd self-parody.

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