SOUND

For nearly 40 years Michael Gira and his Swans have been playing the most intense and multifarious music you can imagine: From the bone-breaking slo-mo noise of early albums like Filth and Cop to discomforting pensive folk epics, his ensemble has diligently proceeded on to a new form of minimalist and simultaneously extreme radical collective abandon. Leaving Meaning is the name of their latest and fifteenth release, which Swans will present in Krems, a psychotically infused meditation rock: mindful music by untameable creatures.