and Gira, the Charon guiding these damned souls, commands his followers to attack an assailant". Body to Body, Job to Job In 1991, a compilation album titled Body to Body, Job to Job was released through Swans' own label, Young God Records. This release consisted of unreleased live and studio recordings between the years 1982 and 1985, including some tracks made during and around the Filth sessions. Several of the songs are simple, experimental tape loops that went otherwise unused and were left off Filth. The majority of this release, however, focused on Swans' second album, 1984's Cop. Release Filth was released in May 1983 through Neutral Records and Zensor in Europe, where most of the band's audience was. Initially, the album was only available on vinyl, but it was reissued in 1990 on CD along with the band's debut EP. Neutral Records again reissued Filth in 2012, but Gira confirmed this to be a bootleg. The album was properly reissued in 2015 in a remastered state with two extra discs of bonus material, including the previously released Body to Body, Job to Job compilation. This version was marketed as a "a definitive, comprehensive document of Swans during the time period 1982 – 1985". Critical reception Upon release, Filth did not receive much critical attention. The Village Voice's Robert Christgau reviewed the album positively in 1984, writing, "Not only isn't it for everybody, it isn't for hardly nobody. I think it's a hoot". Past that, retrospective reviews of Filth were positive. The Line of Best Fit's Andrew Hannah called the album "a brilliant work of art" and praised how, despite being from 1983, it still sounded "uncompromising and utterly vital" in 2014 (a sentiment that Alex Biese of Asbury Park Press echoed). Jason Heller of Pitchfork appreciated the brutality of Filth and noted how it effectively established what Swans would become, and Joseph Rowan of Drowned in Sound highlighted the album as a nearly perfect form of intense, angry music burdened with the downside of becoming exhausting; in a more middling review, AllMusic's Ned Raggett concurred that Filth becomes tiring in its latter moments, but said, "in small doses, though, it's great, and early Swans really is like little else on the planet before or since". Jake Cole of Spectrum Culture wrote, "the music presented in this collection often sounds like a preemptive parody of Swans’ most extreme moments rather