Editing Swans (band) (section)

=== Post-breakup and re-formation (1997–2017) ===
After dissolving Swans, Gira formed [[Angels of Light]], continued his work with Young God Records and Jarboe continued her solo work.

In January 2010, Swans' re-formation was heralded with a new song posted on the Young God Records' MySpace, and officially confirmed by a post on the Young God Records [[Facebook]] and [[MySpace]] accounts.<ref name="Facebook">{{cite web|url=http://www.facebook.com/mgira#/notes/young-god-records/coming-soon-new-swans-album-and-tours/245702146147 |title=Facebook: Coming Soon New Swans Album and Tour |access-date=November 1, 2010 |work=Facebook.com}}</ref> Gira decided to bring back Swans during an Angels of Light show five years prior. In the middle of performing the song ''[[Akron/Family & Angels of Light|The Provider]]'' onstage utilizing "large chords that were very sustained and swaying, in this sort of slave-ship rhythm," he felt "a nascent urge right then to re-form or reinvigorate Swans because I remembered how elevating and intense that experience was".<ref name=":1">{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/11/01/swans-way-sasha-frere-jones|title=Swans Way|last=Frere-Jones|first=Sasha|date=November 1, 2010|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=January 8, 2017|archive-date=January 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109021242/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/11/01/swans-way-sasha-frere-jones|url-status=live}}</ref> To help raise money for the upcoming new Swans album, Gira released a new solo album, ''[[I Am Not Insane]]'', via his Young God Records website.<ref name="YGR">{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/notes/young-god-records/coming-soon-new-swans-album-and-tours/245702146147|title=Coming Soon, New Swans Album and Tour(s)|date=January 9, 2010|work=[[Facebook]]|access-date=February 20, 2013}}</ref> ''LAS Magazine'' posted an article entitled "Kickstart My Art" on alternative financing in "a cash-strapped music industry, unable to rely on record label financing, [that] is positioning its own quid pro quo: fan dollars to fund projects in exchange for exclusive material and a sense of involvement" that cites Swans selling out of the 1,000 signed and numbered copies of ''I Am Not Insane'' as an example of reverse financing where proceeds from one project are rolled over to finance the next.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lostatsea.net/feature.phtml?fid=19012940184b602520166ab|title=LAS Magazine|work=lostatsea.net|access-date=February 20, 2013|archive-date=November 27, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127013306/http://lostatsea.net/feature.phtml?fid=19012940184b602520166ab|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:OFF Festival 2012 Swans.jpg|thumb|300px|Gira performing with Swans at [[OFF Festival]] 2012]]
Swans then went on a series of U.S. and European tour dates,<ref name="Prefix">{{cite web|url=http://www.prefixmag.com/news/reunited-swans-announce-fall-tour/40367/|title=Reunited Swans Announce Fall Tour|last=Winistorfer|first=Andrew|date=May 11, 2010|work=prefixmag.com|access-date=February 20, 2013}}</ref> and headlined the [[Supersonic Festival (Birmingham)|Supersonic Festival]] in Birmingham, England in October 2010. The first post-reformation Swans album, ''[[My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky]]'', was released on September 23, 2010, and the band simultaneously embarked on an eighteen-month world tour.<ref name=":1" /> The band were chosen by [[Portishead (band)|Portishead]] to perform at the [[All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|All Tomorrow's Parties I'll Be Your Mirror]] festivals that Portishead curated in July 2011 at London's Alexandra Palace, and, in September 2011, in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

In 2012 Swans released the live album ''[[We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head]]'', featuring material culled from their 2010–2011 tour, in support of production and recording costs for their forthcoming record, ''[[The Seer (Swans album)|The Seer]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://younggodrecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/swans-we-rose-from-your-bed-with-the-sun-in-our-head-handmade-live-2cd-sold-out |title=Swans&nbsp;– ''We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head'' (Handmade Live 2CD) Sold Out!&nbsp;– Swans |work=younggodrecords.com |access-date=February 20, 2013}}</ref> Initially released as a limited handmade edition of 1000 copies, ''We Rose...'' was re-released in May 2012 as a deluxe [[digipak]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://younggodrecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/we-rose-from-your-bed-with-the-sun-in-our-head |title=Swans: ''We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head'' 2xDigipack CD&nbsp;– Swans |work=younggodrecords.com |access-date=January 1, 2019 }}</ref>
On July 15, 2013, Gira announced a new, handmade live album in the vein of ''[[I Am Not Insane]]'' and ''[[We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head|We Rose...]]'', titled ''[[Not Here / Not Now]]''. The album was announced for sale on October 14, with the proceeds helping to fund the recording of the new Swans studio album with [[John Congleton]], announced in 2014 as ''[[To Be Kind]]''.<ref name="facebook">{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152067807436978&id=13879391977|title=Swans – title of new swans live cd/dvd will be: NOT... &#124; Facebook|publisher=facebook.com|access-date=July 12, 2014}}</ref><ref name="consequenceofsound">{{cite web|url=http://consequence.net/2013/06/swans-announce-plans-for-new-album/|title=Swans announce plans for new album &#124; Consequence of Sound|date=June 3, 2013|publisher=consequence.net|access-date=July 12, 2014}}</ref>

In 2014 the band announced that it signed with [[Mute Records]] for the world outside North America and that the band would be touring. That same year, in November, the band curated a three-day program at [[Le Guess Who?]] in Utrecht, The Netherlands, including [[Wire (band)|Wire]], [[Silver Apples]], [[Ben Frost (musician)|Ben Frost]], [[Prurient]] and Words to the Blind, a project by [[Savages (band)|Savages]] together with Japanese band [[Bo Ningen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leguesswho.com/2014/|title=Le Guess Who? Festival 2014 official website|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617144715/http://www.leguesswho.com/2014/|archive-date=June 17, 2015}}</ref>

In 2014 both ''[[The Seer (Swans album)|The Seer]]'' and ''[[To Be Kind]]'' were ranked on ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''{{'}}s "Top 100 Albums of the Decade So Far 2010–2014." ''The Seer'' was ranked 17 and ''To Be Kind'' was ranked 85.<ref name=pitchforkmedia>{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9465-the-top-100-albums-of-2010-2014/|title=The Top 100 Albums of the Decade So Far; Pitchfork Media|work=Pitchfork |publisher=pitchfork.com|access-date=March 3, 2017}}</ref>

The band announced on July 22, 2015, that they would be recording their fourteenth studio album in September 2015, following a fundraiser album entitled ''[[The Gate (Swans album)|The Gate]]'',<ref name="facebook.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/SwansOfficial/photos/a.487755361977.266239.13879391977/10154034056451978/?type=1&theater |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/13879391977/10154034056451978 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|title=Facebook|website=Facebook.com|accessdate=June 21, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> as with the three previous post-reunion studio albums.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/SwansOfficial/photos/a.487755361977.266239.13879391977/10153779357881978/?type=1&theater |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/13879391977/10153779357881978 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|title=Facebook|website=Facebook.com|access-date=June 21, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On April 5, 2016, the band announced ''[[The Glowing Man]]'' and shared a two-minute excerpt of the twenty-nine minute title track. The album was released on June 17, 2016, on [[Young God Records]] and [[Mute Records]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Camp|first=Zoe|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/64268-swans-announce-new-album-the-glowing-man-tease-title-track-listen/|title=Swans Announce New Album The Glowing Man, Tease Title Track: Listen|website=[[Pitchfork Media]]|date=April 5, 2016|access-date=April 5, 2016}}</ref> and is the final Swans album released under a mostly homogeneous lineup, although Gira continues to record Swans music with "a revolving cast" of musicians, as of 2019.<ref name="facebook.com"/><ref name="younggodrecords.com">{{cite web|url=https://younggodrecords.com/products/the-glowing-man|title=The Glowing Man|access-date=April 27, 2017}}</ref>

This final incarnation of the band announced for immediate release a live album, ''[[Deliquescence (album)|Deliquescence]]'', on May 17. The album, limited to 3,000 CD-only copies, contains three tracks that have previously only been played live.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://younggodrecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/deliquescence|title=DELIQUESCENCE (Ltd. 2CD Live Recording)|website=YOUNG GOD RECORDS|access-date=May 17, 2017}}</ref>