Swans and Sonic Youth both developed in the early 1980s post-punk/ no wave scene of New York City, and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore was an early member of Swans appearing on the live album Body to Body, Job to Job (recorded 1982–85, released 1991). The song 'The World Looks Red/The World Looks Black' contains lyrics written by frontman Michael Gira that were used in the Sonic Youth song 'The World Looks Red' in 1983 the music is new, with no relation to the earlier version. It is considered the third and final part of a three-album 'trilogy', the other two parts being The Seer and To Be Kind.
The Glowing Man is the fourteenth studio album by American experimental rock band Swans, released on Jon Young God and Mute.
