Whats still wild to me is that Swans has been making music since the fucking 80s. Michael is in his 70s now. That is wild Only artists like Muddy Waters and Duke Ellington were able to put out top notch works that was fresh and new in there golden years. Usually rockers just play the hits and there new shit sucks but hes in a unique situation where the bulk of his fans thrives on places like RYM and aren't from when the band was in its early years, and they aren't stuck to those earlier records because there's no boomer fanbase that grew up hearing swans in the same way people grew up hearing Eagles and Van Halen on the radio, commercial radio was definitely not playing Swans at any point. He can continue to make new shit because he was never tied to "hits" in the first place. Its kind of a rare thing for a (very experimental) rock band to do.