{"id":76,"date":"2019-12-05T17:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T17:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richbradley.org\/songs\/?p=76"},"modified":"2020-04-25T17:11:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T17:11:21","slug":"a-little-god-in-my-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richbradley.org\/songs\/201x-favorites\/a-little-god-in-my-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Little God in My Hands\u201d \u2013 Swans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SWANS &quot;A LITTLE GOD IN MY HANDS&quot; (TO BE KIND)\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vfmi0v5vIGo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Swans had their first ever top 40 record in 2014, more than 30 years after the release of their debut LP. No one said \u201cit\u2019s about time,\u201d because Swans is not the kind of band that was ever supposed to be in the top 40 of anything.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their early years, Swans were best known for emptying bars across the Lower East Side, and for their maniac frontman licking the floor of CBGB. Michael Gira isn\u2019t the same guy he was 30 years ago, and Swans isn\u2019t anything close to the same band. But for all the forms they\u2019ve taken over the years, none were ever what you\u2019d call charts material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So how to explain the surprise success of triple LP <em>To Be Kind?<\/em> The songs aren\u2019t blocks of industrial noise anymore, but they\u2019re still relentless and profoundly uncomfortable. Gira may not be spewing rage (or various fluids) at the same volume he once did, but a deep anger remains at the center of everything. The band continues to defy all popular music customs, with one track clocking in at over 34 minutes. Maybe we\u2019ve finally hit a moment where our culture finds Gira\u2019s screams of existential trauma relatable? That\u2019s probably not something we should celebrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever it says about us, it is some kind of comfort to still have Swans around and delivering distinctly terrifying music. Standout \u201cA Little God in My Hands\u201d is the most accessible entry point to this album, a swampy death march with a bassline you could almost conceivably dance to. Then dissonant horns and synths blast in, and there\u2019s a choir of undead voices that sound like the coda of \u201cI Am the Walrus\u201d on DMT, and Gira\u2019s yelling something about \u201cTHE UNIVERSAL MIIIIIND.\u201d The inside of my brain sounds like this more often than I\u2019d prefer, but such are the times we live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swans had their first ever top 40 record in 2014, more than 30 years after the release of their debut LP. 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