Après une petite pause, les Swans de Michael Gira reviennent dans une nouvelle configuration (avec Kristof Hahn, Larry Mullins, Dana Schechter, Christopher Pravdica, Phil Puleo et Ben Frost) pour un nouvel album, le seizième du groupe. Il s’intitule The Beggar et comprendra 11 morceaux. Voici ce qu’en dit Gira lui-même : “After numerous pandemic-induced cancellations of tours for the previous Swans album leaving meaning, and an apparent bottomless pit of waiting, waiting, waiting, and the strange disorientation that came with this sudden but interminable forced isolation I decided it was time to write songs for a new Swans album and forget about everything else. They came relatively easily, always informed by the suspicion that these could be my last. When I finally was able to travel, songs in hand, to Berlin to work with my friends recording this record, the feeling was akin to the moment in The Wizard of Oz when the film changes from Black and White to Color. Now I’m feeling quite optimistic. My favourite color is pink. I hope you enjoy the album.”
La sortie est prévue le 23 juin prochain sur Young God Records/Mute. Le premier extrait, Paradise Is mine, dans la lignée de ce que le groupe a proposé sur ses derniers albums, s’écoute ci-dessous.