{"product_id":"swans-to-be-kind-3lp","title":"Swans - To Be Kind [3LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eSwans' To Be Kind is two hours of controlled catastrophe, released in 2014 and spread here across three LPs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince reforming in 2010, Michael Gira had turned Swans into one of the most physically overwhelming bands on earth, building songs out of repetition, volume and sheer endurance. To Be Kind followed The Seer and pushed even further, its pieces often growing out of ideas worked up on stage before being captured in the studio. Gira's lyrics trade in devotion, violence and transcendence, sometimes in the same breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Screen Shot\" opens with a pulsing bass line and chant-like vocals, building slowly into something close to a trance. \"A Little God in My Hands\" lurches along with a strange, almost funky swagger, while \"Bring the Sun \/ Toussaint L'Ouverture\" stretches past half an hour, moving from crushing crescendos to eerie, half-spoken passages. \"Oxygen\" is the nearest thing to a single, frantic and gasping for air.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not background listening, and it was never meant to be. The patience it asks for pays off in moments of sudden, overwhelming release that few rock records even attempt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlayed loud across three discs, the scale finally makes sense: this is a record to surrender to rather than skim, and one that leaves the room feeling different afterwards.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57518429471025,"sku":"658457004616","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/Swans-To_Be_Kind_3LP.jpg?v=1794677582","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/swans-to-be-kind-3lp","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}