We already knew Swans could take a couple of hours to leave a smoking crater filled with majestic hate, because that’s what they did two years ago on The Seer, and because they have a decades-long history of ecstatic visceral noise-blasts behind them. But on To Be Kind, they pull off something that might be even more difficult, taking another two hours to wriggle and squirm and churn and screech, building monumental grooves and then using those grooves to leave your soul unsettled. To Be Kind is James Cameron in scope but David Lynch in uncomfortable intensity; play it loud enough, and it will swallow your soul. –Tom [LISTEN]