Deliquescence

Live album by

Released

May 17, 2017

Recorded

The Regency Ballroom, San Francisco on September 3, 2016
Huxley’s Neue Welt, Berlin on October 18, 2016

Length

155:07

Swans chronology

The Glowing Man
(2016)

Deliquescence
(2017)

What Is This?
(2019)

Deliquescence is a 2017 limited-edition, and the overall ninth, live album by American experimental rock band Swans. The album, limited to 3,000 CD-only copies, contains three tracks that have previously only been played live. The packaging for the CD release includes the details of location of each show, band photos, and alternative artwork.^[1]

At 155 minutes long, Deliquescence is the longest release by the band to date.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Michael Gira, Phil Puleo, Norman Westberg, Kristof Hahn, Christopher Pravdica, and Paul Wallfisch

Disc one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Knot" (previously unreleased)	45:37
2.	"Screen Shot"	7:51
3.	"Cloud of Forgetting"	16:01
4.	"Deliquescing" (previously unreleased)	10:09
Total length:		79:38

Disc two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Cloud of Unknowing"	29:22
2.	"The Man Who Refused to Be Unhappy" (previously unreleased)	9:44
3.	"The Glowing Man"	36:20
Total length:		75:26

References

^ "DELIQUESCENCE (Ltd. 2CD Live Recording) Sold Out". YOUNG GOD RECORDS. Retrieved May 18, 2017.

v t e Swans
Michael Gira Jarboe Algis Kizys Ted Parsons Thurston Moore Roli Mosimann Vincent Signorelli Bill Rieflin Jonathan Kane Kristof Hahn Thor Harris Christopher Pravdica Phil Puleo Paul Wallfisch Norman Westberg
Studio albums	Filth Cop Greed Holy Money Children of God The Burning World White Light from the Mouth of Infinity Love of Life The Great Annihilator Soundtracks for the Blind My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky The Seer To Be Kind The Glowing Man Leaving Meaning The Beggar
Fundraiser albums	I Am Not Insane We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head Not Here / Not Now The Gate What Is This? Is There Really a Mind?
Live albums	Public Castration Is a Good Idea Feel Good Now Anonymous Bodies in an Empty Room Real Love Omniscience Kill the Child Swans Are Dead We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head Not Here / Not Now The Gate Deliquescence
Compilation albums	Body to Body, Job to Job Children of God/World of Skin Various Failures Filth/Body to Body, Job to Job Cop/Young God Greed/Holy Money Forever Burned
EPs	Swans Young God A Screw Love Will Tear Us Apart Die Tür ist zu Oxygen
Singles	"Time Is Money (Bastard)" "New Mind" "Can't Find My Way Home" "Saved" "Paradise Is Mine"
Related articles	Discography Young God Records Angels of Light The Body Lovers / The Body Haters Cop Shoot Cop Of Cabbages and Kings Prong Sulfur Unsane World of Skin Where Does a Body End?