SWANS RELATED: MICHAEL GIRA The Consumer Hardback Book

This weird-press offering is both deliriously repulsive and very well-crafted. It’s a collection of short pieces — sort of like stories, but more like wild fantasies — that take surrealistic organ distortions, drug-infused hallucinatory sexual nightmares and grotesque organic urban-machinery delusions, to whole new levels of “Whoa! Can’t believe I’m actually eating lunch while reading this.” Reminiscent of J. G. Ballard in his Crash/Atrocity Exhibition phase, or else J. K. Huysmans on an ether binge in Los Angeles.