Pennsylvanian noisemakers Pissed Jeans release their fifth LP through Subpop in February. Matt Korvette and co. have been churning out their brand of post-hardcore since the mid-noughties and Why Love Now promises to continue in a similar vein.

Korvette, Brad Fry (guitar), Randy Huth (bass) and Sean McGuinness (drums) met in school and have been terrorising audiences and eardrums ever since.

No Wave legend Lydia Lunch shacked up in Philadelphia to produce Why Love Now alongside local metal legend Arthur Rizk. “I knew she wasn’t a traditional producer,” Korvette says of Lunch. “I like how she’s so cool and really intimidating. She ended up being so fucking awesome and crazy. She was super into it, constantly threatening to bend us over the bathtub. I’m not really sure what that entails, but I know she probably wasn’t joking.”

Lunch and Rizk helped to mould what Korvette has described as “the musical equivalent to watching a toilet flush.” Their last album, Honeys, was described by Musos’ Guide as “what hardcore punk sounds like in the 21st century.”

They have just released the first song from the album, ‘The Bar Is Low’. With some deliberate irony, the track sets the bar high for February’s release.

Listen to ‘The Bar Is Low’ here

The tracklisting for Why Love Now is;

1. Waiting On My Horrible Warning

2. The Bar Is Low

3. Play

4. Ignorecam

5. Cold Whip Cream

6. Love Without Emotion

7. I'm A Man

8. (Won't Tell You) My Sign

9.  It's Your Knees

10. Worldwide Marine Asset Financial Analyst

11. Have You Ever Been Furniture

12. Activia

13. Not Even Married

Order the album here

Swans return to the UK for an evening at London's Roundhouse on May 27 with very special guest Thurston Moore, marking Swans' final London performance in the band’s current incarnation.

On 28 May Swans perform at the debut Transformer festival in Manchester on a bill that includes The Fall, Royal Trux’s first UK show in over 15 years, This Is Not This Heat and Loop. An ideal line up for a band that play songs like ‘Raping A Slave’, ’Public Castration Is A Good Idea’ and ‘You People Make Me Fucking Sick’. Their recent show at the Islington Assembly Hall was chronicled here by our own Robert Freeman.

Following the announcement of May 2017 dates in London and Manchester, Swans have confirmed details of European tour in spring 2017 in support of their latest album, The Glowing Man.

Little Annie will join Swans on the European dates from Oslo through to Amsterdam, and further guests will be announced over the coming months.

3 March - GR Athens, Gagarin 205

4 March - GR Thessaloniki, Block 33

6 March - FI Helsinki, Tavastia

8 March - NO Oslo, Rockefeller *

9 March - SE Stockholm, Kraken Sthlm*

11 March - DK Copenhagen, Grey Hall*

12 March - DK Aarhus, VoxHall*

14 March - CZ Brno, FledaClub*

15 March - SK Kosice, TabaKa Kulturfabrik*

17 March - LT Vilnius, Legendos Klubas*

19 March - UA Kiev, Sentrum*

22 March - RO Cluj-Napoca, FORM Space Club*

23 March - RO Bucharest, Control Club*

24 March - MK Skopje, MKC*

25 March - RS Belgrade, Dom Omladine*

27 March - HR Rijeka, Pogon Kulture*

28 March - CH Zürich, Rote Fabrik Ziegel oh Lac*

29 March - DE Dortmund, FZW*

30 March - BE Ghent, Kompass Klub*

31 March - NL Amsterdam, Paradiso Music Hall*

May27 May – London, Roundhouse – Tickets

28 May – Manchester, Victoria Warehouse – Tickets

*with Little Annie