I think The Seer will always take my top place for a Swans album, but I definitely see this as a massive improvement over the sometimes excruciating To Be Kind. That album had the problem in my eyes of blowing it's load by the end of the first disc. The Glowing Man doesn't ever suffer from that problem despite being a much more subdued effort than really any other Swans album to come before. It's astoundingly consistent for the massive length, but I need to give it more listens before I could give it a higher score than an 8.
The Seer>>The Glowing Man>>>To Be Kind
(sorry if this seems rushed, I'm sort of pressed for time while writing this)
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