View basket “Better Heavens” has been added to your basket. Soundtracks For The Blind Swans SKU: STUMM421 Barcode: 5414940009088 60.00 £60.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Mute Released Date: 20th July 2018 Buying Format: 4LP Box Set Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Swans’ ‘Soundtracks For The Blind’ – originally released in 1996 and the band’s last studio album prior to their 2010 reformation – is released for the first time on vinyl. Much requested by Swans fans, the vinyl format for ‘Soundtracks For The Blind’ consists of four LPs in jackets enclosed in a box with a poster, insert and digital download copy. ‘Soundtracks For The Blind’ is reissued on 3CD featuring a repackage of the original digipak for the 1996 Atavistic release, plus a bonus disc of the contemporaneous ‘Die Tür Ist Zu’ mini album (a German language version of some of the material from ‘Soundtracks For The Blind’ that also includes unique material). ‘Die Tür Ist Zu is also released separately as a double vinyl set. “This album has everything in there – all the ideas from Swans’ initial 15 years of work. There’s some contemporary recordings of the band as it existed in ‘96/7, with Larry Mullins on drums/percussion, Jarboe singing and playing keyboards, Vudi playing electric guitar, and Joe Goldring playing bass and electric guitar, and me singing and playing electric and acoustic guitar, but there’s also a huge amount of sounds and recordings that Jarboe and I collected over the years. These are reassembled, looped, mangled, and in many cases overdubbed upon to create new pieces of music… I really set my own trap, dug my own grave on this one. There was SO MUCH material to deal with, to sift through (whole trunks full of decomposing, moldy cassettes and discs with samples and sounds), and the task of making it into something coherent was at times debilitating. Really like climbing up a mountain of sand. I don’t remember why I set this goal for myself, to somehow incorporate such a ridiculously disparate amount of material. I think maybe it was so I could justify throwing all that crap into the local dump, which is what I did when I finished the album. But in the end, after centuries of picking at this huge iceberg of material with a toothpick, my trusty engineer Chris Griffin and I managed to sculpt something out of it. It actually breathes, seems to live, in most places I think. When I decided to reform Swans in 2010 ‘Soundtracks’ was what I referred to as a starting point” – Michael Gira / Swans 2018 Artist Swans Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Mute Buying Options 4LP Box Set Format 4LP , Box Set Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Red Velvet Corridor Helpless Child I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull Live Through Me Yum-Yab Killers The Beautiful Days Volcano Mellothumb All Lined Up Surrogate 2 How They Suffer Animus Red Velvet Wound The Sound Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey Blood Section Hypogirl Minus Something Empathy I Love You This Much YRP Fan's Lament Secret Friends The Final Sacrifice YRP 2 Surrogate Drone Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Swans View Product Quick View Swans Feel Good Now – Live Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Mute | 2LP, Includes Download Code, Includes Poster Released 27th October 2023 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Swans Feel Good Now – Live £30.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / 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