“As a college radio DJ in the mid-90s, I once played "God Damn the Sun"-- the coda from 1988's *The Burning World*-- for over an hour on repeat. Every time the song faded, I placed the needle back in the starting groove and waited for the tentative drones to begin again. The Swans' bleak eulogizing mixed perfectly with the snow outside the station window, and I imagined passers-by who could hear we”
