Fresh from a sold out show at London’s Meltdown on Thursday (June 21) – Kristin Hersh is previewing a rough mix of Breathe In from her new solo album Possible Dust Clouds. Beside performing at Meltdown, the prolific singer-songwriter also took part in a discussion on mental health at the festival, which is being curated by The Cure‘s Robert Smith. The panel discussion, replaced a […]
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Kristin Hersh is an artist who inspires religious devotion on behalf of her fans, so what more appropriate venue for her than a church. We gathered like pilgrims in the pews of St John on Bethnal Green, as the Throwing Muses frontwoman delivered a solo sermon, replete with tales of spectres, prostitutes, drunks and sultry New Orleans nights.
A dream-like and at times nightmarish ride, Kristin Hersh’s new album is an extraordinarily multi-layered work that’s tough to de-code. It’s a wilfully oblique mosaic of half-realised memories of past events and emotions.
Thirty years on from the release of the first Throwing Muses EP Chains Changed Kristin Hersh is showing no signs of slowing down. Just six months after the release of the Bath White mini-album with power trio 50FOOTWAVE, she’s back with a new solo 24-track double CD on which she plays all the instruments.
Throwing Muses offshoot 50FOOTWAVE are back with their first release in four years and it’s a real humdinger. Louder, faster and heavier than you might expect, the Bath White EP packs more of a punch into its six-tracks than most artists manage on a double album.