Back from the dead: Why I welcome a Swans reunion

The fiercely independent, post-punk eardrum perforators are to reunite. But there's plenty of evidence that they are motivated by more than just a big pay chequeAsked in a 2006 interview if he would ever consider reforming Swans, the band he led from their birth in the flux of New York's early 1980s no-wave scene to their dissolution in 1997, Michael Gira was unequivocal. "Absolutely not, never," he announced, flatly. "Dead and gone. I have more interesting things to do."Call it a change in hear...

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