{"id":1780700,"date":"2026-02-17T15:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1780700"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:23:39","slug":"thurston-moore-and-bonner-kramer-announce-they-came-like-swallows-seven-requiems-for-the-children-of-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1780700","title":{"rendered":"Thurston Moore and Bonner Kramer Announce They Came Like Swallows – Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Moore called the new LP \u201ca prayer to the war-torn souls of the families of Palestine continually decimated by the brutality of genocide\u201d<\/div>\n
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Thurston Moore and Bonner Kramer (fka Kramer) are releasing a new album together. They Came Like Swallows – Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza<\/em> arrives on May 1 via Silver Current Records. Today, the pair also shared a first song from the album, \u201cUrn Burial,\u201d with a music video. Check that out below.<\/p>\n

Although the Sonic Youth frontman and Galaxie 500 producer have been friends for over 40 years, They Came Like Swallows<\/em> marks their first album-length collaboration. The LP began to take shape over a series of improvisational winter sessions in Miami, including one where Moore and Kramer covered Joy Division\u2019s 1979 track \u201cInsight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat transpired is They Came Like Swallows<\/em>, a session we immediately felt should exist as a prayer to the war-torn souls of the families of Palestine continually decimated by the brutality of genocide,\u201d Moore shared in a press statement. \u201cWe agreed beyond words to offer our music as a sonic activism and as a beneficent energy. This album is our duo exchange for human dignity, it is our soul music for any semblance of a peaceful planet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore released his most recent album, Flow Critical Lucidity<\/em>, in 2024. The year before that, he published a memoir, Sonic Life.<\/em> Kramer released an LP with Pan American, Interior of an Edifice Under the Sea<\/em>, in 2025.<\/p>\n

Read the book review Thurston Moore\u2019s Memoir Gets Lost in a Punk Neverland.<\/p>\n

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They Came Like Swallows – Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

01 Urn Burial
02 The Redness in the West
03 The Third Migration
04 They Came Like Swallows
05 The Living Theater
06 The Oceans are Crying
07 * Insight<\/p>\n

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