SWANS - Children Of God DLP blackened The Earth Is Not a

The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place takes its shape not in the unexpected cacophony that had become the band's trademark

Deserving of their special place in the pantheon of one-off classic albums

Blending the electro-acoustic minimalism of the David Bowie and Brian Eno Trilogy with the percussive worldliness of Tom Waits' SWORDFISHTROMBONES

Let's call it "heavy world music

Fifteen years and eight albums later

SWANS - Children Of God DLP blackened The Earth Is Not aBy 1986 7 Swans had run its course with the physical assault of sound that we had employed previously for the most part. I wanted to move on to other things and didnt want to get stuck in some style, which in our case had the potential of becoming cartoonish if wed continued in that direction. So, I pushed the music into unfamiliar territory. We spent 6 weeks in an old isolated medieval sawmill in Cornwall, England experimenting and hashing things