We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head [Live] - Swans
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  • Summary: Originally released as a limited 1,000 copy run, the live album features recordings from the band's 2010-11 tour for its 2010 release, My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky.

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  1. The Quietus
    Jun 25, 2012
    90
    This is not a live album, but an alive album, one of the most visceral, beautiful records you'll hear this year.
  2. Blurt Magazine
    Jul 10, 2012
    90
    This current incarnation of Swans swim across the salty sea of the group's three-decade strong catalog, executing a balance of grind and grace that casts a new light on old classics.
  3. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Jun 25, 2012
    90
    Gira and company have put a lot of care into this project, crafting a beautifully-recorded, exquisitely-packaged set that stands as the obvious next best thing to actually seeing the band in the flesh.
  4. The Wire
    Jul 24, 2012
    80
    A striking document of Swans' current live form. [Jul 2012, p.64]
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  1. DjFlow
    10
    Absolutely mind blowing, it shows Swans at the peak of their (reinvigorated) powers. Visceral as hell, but also intellectually challenging, it perfectly captures the extremely intense experience of watching them live in their last tour. The album rotates within itself, in growing circular and pulsating motion and, as the songs -old and/or recent, even unpublished- tower, expand and melt with each other, they resonate with unfathomable power -sourly bathed in vitriol, feedback and repetition- in ears and, even on top of that, brain. Serious candidate for album of the year...… Expand

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