We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head [Live] - Swans
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83 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critics

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  1. 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.
  2. cokemachineglow
    Jun 25, 2012
    86
    It is the best Swans live record in that it distills the essential loss of agency one is meant to endure as best as two little discs can manage.
  3. Dusted Magazine
    Jun 26, 2012
    80
    While providing an exciting document of this stage of the band, We Rose From Your Bed… offers a tantalizing hint at what's to come.
  4. Pitchfork
    Jun 25, 2012
    80
    Loud, mean, and complicated, this six-piece is an articulate goliath, capable of drowning out Gira in waves before disappearing into pools of silence without warning. Each piece of this unit deserves mention.
  5. PopMatters
    Aug 28, 2012
    70
    We Rose From Your Bed may be a live album, but it's much more investigative and surprising than most live offerings.
  6. 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.
  7. The Wire
    Jul 24, 2012
    80
    A striking document of Swans' current live form. [Jul 2012, p.64]
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  8. 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.

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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 The album rotates within itself, in growing circular and pulsating motion and, as the songs -old and/or recent, even unpublished- tower, expand and melt with each other, they resonate with unfathomable power -sourly bathed in vitriol, feedback and repetition- in ears and, even on top of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...… Full Review »