the fact that Hersh’s recent recordings have confirmed a renewed creativity means fresh rewards for those of us who have kept the faith over the years. Arguably providing the biggest late-reblooming flourish – following on from 2022’s rowdy yet textured Black Pearl with 50 Foot Wave and 2023’s sonically diverse Clear Pond Road solo outing – is this new nine-track set from Hersh’s mothership enterprise, Throwing Muses.
Throwing Muses
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Fire It is hard to believe that Kristin Hersh and David Narcizo have been playing together now for over thirty-five years. 1985 was the year of that extraordinary debut that reset the expectations of female rock bands, and it has been thirty-five years of that visceral rollercoaster that is Kristin’s psyche: the automatic writing, those songs as an expression of a connection to humanity that seemed at times to […]