Swans - Leaving MeaningLeaving Meaning is the bands fifteenth studio album, the follow up to 2016s The Glowing Man. Written and produced by Michael Gira, the album features contributions from recent and former Swans, members of Angels of Light as well as Anna and Maria von Hausswolff, Ben Frost, The Necks, Baby Dee and Jennifer Gira. Michael Gira explains, Leaving Meaning is the first Swans album to be released since I dissolved the lineup of musicians that constituted

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Across 19 tracks in just 40 minutes

It culminates in the truly extraordinary ‘Autobiography Of The Upsetter’

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synth-based Ivor Novello award winning score for Ex Machina

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The album took its name from the Thelonious Monk song "'Round Midnight"

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Sakamoto also wrote music for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and the 400th anniversary of the city of Mannheim