| We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head | ||||
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| Live album (double album)by | ||||
| Released | May 29, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | October 9, 2010 at Bowery Ballroom, New York City [1] (track 3); December 13, 2010 at Volksbühne, Berlin [2] (track 6); March 11, 2011 at East Brunswick Club Hotel, Melbourne [3] (remainder) | |||
| Length | 122:32 | |||
| Label | Young God | |||
| Producer | Michael Gira | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 83/100 [4] |
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| Pitchfork | 8.0/10 [5] |
We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head is the second double and eighth live album by American experimental rock band Swans. [5] The album was recorded in New York City, Berlin, Germany and Melbourne, Australia during the Swans World Tour of 2010-2011. [6] Only 1,000 copies of the album were sold, and each was numbered and signed personally by frontman Michael Gira. [7] The album was released to help support the upcoming Swans album, The Seer .
Seven bonus tracks, demos to be featured on their upcoming album The Seer, were also released. It was re-released in 2012 as a 2-CD deluxe digipack without the bonus tracks.
The album was sold through the website of Young God Records, with a number of unique purchasing options. The purchasing options included an "executive producer" credit on The Seer, an original drawing by Michael Gira dedicated to the customer, the recording of a short, acoustic song praising the customer by Gira, and a "secret gift". [7] [ obsolete source ]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Intro" / "No Words / No Thoughts" | 23:21 |
| 2. | "Jim" | 8:16 |
| 3. | "Beautiful Child" | 8:39 |
| 4. | "The Apostate" | 16:54 |
| 5. | "Yr Property" | 7:14 |
| 6. | "Sex God Sex" | 8:06 |
| Total length: | 72:30 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "The Seer" (Intro) / "I Crawled" (Later recorded together as "The Seer") | 30:46 |
| 2. | "Eden Prison" | 11:58 |
| 3. | "93 Ave. B. Blues" / "Little Mouth" ("Little Mouth" a capella) | 7:18 |
| Total length: | 50:02 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 4. | "Hello There" (Introduction by Gira) | 2:59 |
| 5. | "Lunacy" | 3:55 |
| 6. | "The Mother of the World" | 4:26 |
| 7. | "The Daughter Brings the Water" | 2:37 |
| 8. | "A Piece of the Sky" | 7:07 |
| 9. | "The Seer" | 3:07 |
| 10. | "Goodbye" (Outro by Gira) | 0:09 |
| Total length: | 74:22 | |