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  Type LP
  Artist Swans
  Cover Nocovergif
  Background Orange
  Released 1984
  Recorded 1984
  Genre Industrial , Grunge
  Length 40:25
  Label K422
  Producer Michael Gira
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  Last Album '' Filth '' (1983)
  This Album ''Cop'' (1984)
  Next Album '' Young God EP '' (1985)


Cop is the second album by the No Wave band Swans . The album is considered to be an improvement on their previous LP, ''Filth''. It is most often described musically as "heavy metal in slow motion". Its most infamous song is probably the titular piece, which some consider more vitriolic than even Ice-T 's " Cop Killer ". Lead singer Michael Gira , however, notes that the song is entirely symbolic, therefore making its subject matter not unlike the Milgram Experiment . As has been made obvious, the subject matter of this album is very dark, though the bleak, more often than not vague imagery can be taken in multiple ways.