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'''''Live Rope''''' is a 2024, and the overall tenth, [[live album]] by American [[experimental rock]] band [[Swans (band)|Swans]].https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/89331/Swans-Live-Rope/ Released in full as a USB "credit card" as well as in edited forms on CD and vinyl, the album served as a fundraiser for the seventeenth studio album ''[[Birthing (album)|Birthing]]'' and was their first live album since 2017's ''[[Deliquescence (album)|Deliquescence]]''.https://www.progarchives.com/review.asp?id=3143421 The album comprises recordings from the band's tour supporting their previous album ''[[The Beggar (album)|The Beggar]]'', which took place from May 2023 to May 2024, and contains transformed material from that album as well as ''[[Leaving Meaning]]'' and ''Birthing''.{{cite web |url=https://younggodrecords.com/blogs/news/swans-announce-new-live-album-live-rope-preorder|title=Swans announce new live album Live Rope preorder |date=10 September 2024 |accessdate=12 September 2024 |website=Young God Records}}{{cite web |title=Swans reimagine crowdfunding |url=https://www.scenepointblank.com/news/bands/2024/09/16/swans-reimagine-crowdfunding/ |date=16 September 2024 |access-date=13 November 2024 |website=Scene Point Blank}}{{cite web |title=Swans: esce l'album dal vivo, il ricavato finanzierà il nuovo disco in studio, che è già in lavorazione |url=https://www.ondarock.it/news/swans-nuovo-disco-live-rope-album-studio-michael-gira.htm |date=11 September 2024 |access-date=13 November 2024 |website=Ondarock |last=Fabretti |first=Claudio}}{{cite web |title=Swans partage un album live pour financer leur prochain album |url=https://lecanalauditif.ca/actualites/swans-partage-album-live-financer-prochain-album/ |date=11 September 2024 |access-date=13 November 2024 |website=Le Canal Auditif |last=Lefebvre-Massey |first=Félix}}

'''''Live Rope''''' (stylized in all-caps) is the overall tenth, [[live album]] by American [[experimental rock]] band [[Swans (band)|Swans]].https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/89331/Swans-Live-Rope/ Released in full in 2024 as a USB "credit card" as well as in edited forms on CD and vinyl, the album served as a fundraiser for the seventeenth studio album ''[[Birthing (album)|Birthing]]'' and was their first live album since 2017's ''[[Deliquescence (album)|Deliquescence]]''.https://www.progarchives.com/review.asp?id=3143421 The album comprises recordings from the band's tour supporting their previous album ''[[The Beggar (album)|The Beggar]]'', which took place from May 2023 to May 2024, and contains transformed material from that album as well as ''[[Leaving Meaning]]'' and ''Birthing''.{{cite web |url=https://younggodrecords.com/blogs/news/swans-announce-new-live-album-live-rope-preorder|title=Swans announce new live album Live Rope preorder |date=10 September 2024 |accessdate=12 September 2024 |website=Young God Records}}{{cite web |title=Swans reimagine crowdfunding |url=https://www.scenepointblank.com/news/bands/2024/09/16/swans-reimagine-crowdfunding/ |date=16 September 2024 |access-date=13 November 2024 |website=Scene Point Blank}}{{cite web |title=Swans: esce l'album dal vivo, il ricavato finanzierà il nuovo disco in studio, che è già in lavorazione |url=https://www.ondarock.it/news/swans-nuovo-disco-live-rope-album-studio-michael-gira.htm |date=11 September 2024 |access-date=13 November 2024 |website=Ondarock |last=Fabretti |first=Claudio}}{{cite web |title=Swans partage un album live pour financer leur prochain album |url=https://lecanalauditif.ca/actualites/swans-partage-album-live-financer-prochain-album/ |date=11 September 2024 |access-date=13 November 2024 |website=Le Canal Auditif |last=Lefebvre-Massey |first=Félix}}

Unlike previous fundraiser albums (with the exception of ''[[We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head]]''), which were released in limited quantities, the regular CD version of ''Live Rope'' was eventually announced to be made available perpetually as a live album in its own right.{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DCZds9RP47J/?hl=da|title=Heading back to Berlin to mix the new Swans studio album. It will be called Birthing. This will be the final "big sound" Swans album. Hoping for a release date of early next year, then a final large ensemble tour towards the end of the year. Thank you (!) for supporting the current studio recording by purchasing, in its various manifestations, the live album Live Rope. Incidentally, I have decided to keep the 2XCD version of Live Rope in print and available in perpetuity. It's at the younggodrecords.com website. It's an important, pivotal document for us and I want it to remain available… Going forward (after the release of Birthing and its subsequent tours), things will be simpler and more intimate for Swans. When that time comes, I look forward to discovering a fresh path towards a new sonic terrain in which to dwell… See you sometime, somewhere- MG.|website=[[Instagram]]|date=March 7, 2025}} The vinyl and USB releases were limited to 1,000 and 1,300 copies respectively.

Unlike previous fundraiser albums (with the exception of ''[[We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head]]''), which were released in limited quantities, the regular CD version of ''Live Rope'' was eventually announced to be made available perpetually as a live album in its own right.{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DCZds9RP47J/?hl=da|title=Heading back to Berlin to mix the new Swans studio album. It will be called Birthing. This will be the final "big sound" Swans album. Hoping for a release date of early next year, then a final large ensemble tour towards the end of the year. Thank you (!) for supporting the current studio recording by purchasing, in its various manifestations, the live album Live Rope. Incidentally, I have decided to keep the 2XCD version of Live Rope in print and available in perpetuity. It's at the younggodrecords.com website. It's an important, pivotal document for us and I want it to remain available… Going forward (after the release of Birthing and its subsequent tours), things will be simpler and more intimate for Swans. When that time comes, I look forward to discovering a fresh path towards a new sonic terrain in which to dwell… See you sometime, somewhere- MG.|website=[[Instagram]]|date=March 7, 2025}} The vinyl and USB releases were limited to 1,000 and 1,300 copies respectively. The album was made available on streaming platforms on April 22nd, 2026.https://music.apple.com/nz/album/live-rope/1889166517

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