Pretty extraordinary

Really solid dark ambient. Nothing ground breaking, but a good mix of eerie and sinister with some moments that were quite lovely.

Unrelentingly grim. Incredible lyrics, truly disturbing and depressing. But also groovy and catchy as hell

Massively exceeded my expectations. A surprisingly easy going album.

Holy shit, they’ve done it.

So good.

If Public Castration can act as a capstone of Swans’s early, brutal no wave sound, then Children of God is a compelling move into a new direction. It’s a change that began on their previous record, Holy Money, hut While Holy Money suffers a little from not quite committing to this new act, Children of God fully commits. The result was their most varied, dynamic album thus far in their career, embracing gothic folk, blues, and more conventional song structures and melody. If any of ... read more

Bit of an oddball, but an enjoyable one, and probably one of his better 80’s releases.

Kind of a capstone on the particularly brutal error of early Swans. Intense, dissonant, disturbing, and above all, loud.