Leaving Meaning

Leaving Meaning
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 25, 2019 (2019-10-25)
RecordedMarch 11 – July 23, 2019
StudioCandy Bomber, Berlin, Germany; Ben Frost studio, Reykjavik, Iceland; Sonido del Norte, Albuquerque, NM, USA; Seizure's Palace, Brooklyn, NY, USA
GenreExperimental rock
Length93:10 (CD version)
82:34 (vinyl version)
Label
ProducerMichael Gira
Swans chronology
What Is This?
(2019)
Leaving Meaning
(2019)
Is There Really a Mind?
(2022)
Singles from Leaving Meaning
  1. "It's Coming It's Real"
    Released: September 5, 2019
  2. "The Hanging Man"
    Released: October 10, 2019

Leaving Meaning (stylized as leaving meaning.) is the fifteenth studio album by American experimental band Swans. It was released October 25, 2019 on Young God and Mute. A double album, Leaving Meaning's songs have been mixed separately for vinyl and CD releases, with the CD version of the album containing the original (and extended) mixes of the songs, as well as an additional track, "Some New Things". As with all Swans' releases of the 2010s, Leaving Meaning was financed by a fundraiser album – in this case, What Is This? in March 2019.