SWANS Die Tur Ist Zu – Vinyl 2xLP (black)

Pressing info : First time on vinyl. 2018 pressing on black vinyl 2xLP.

Die Tür ist zu (German for The Door Is Closed) was released in 1996, exclusively in Germany.

The EP contains early, German-language versions of two songs from the then to-be-released Soundtracks For The Blind album, two studio outtakes (“Surrogate Drones” also to appear on Soundtracks For The Blind, and “You Know Everything (reprise 1991)” originally recorded for White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity, in a version already released on the Celebrity Lifestyle · Mother / Father CD single), as well as 3 live songs: “M/F”, recorded at VPRO Radio, December 14, 1994, “Soundsection” and “YRP”, both recorded live at the Astoria in London, sometime in 1995.

The all acoustic session at VPRO also included the songs “I See Them All Lined Up”, “My Buried Child” (which appears on the I Am The Sun and Sacrificial Cake) and “She Lives!”.

Die Tür ist zu saw it’s first reissue and it’s first vinyl treatment in 2018, initially as a US exclusive release for Record Store Day, with a European release scheduled for later the same year, to coincide with the first vinyl reissue of Soundtracks For The Blind.

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