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1 June 2023

The wonderful Throwing Muses lady KRISTIN HERSH has announced the release of a new solo album, baptized CLEAR POUND ROAD. It’ll land on 8 September. Pre-order info here . She will tour the UK/IRE and AUS next Fall/Winter. All dates here.

Fire Records: “Kristin Hersh‘s new album is a cinematic road trip. A series of personal vignettes from a fiercely independent auteur, sitting plush with layers of all-consuming strings and mellotron. It’s a watershed moment in a career overflowing with creative firsts and inspirational thinking; an elegant piece of personal reportage, a home movie caught in time. It continous the juxtaposition of dark and light–dark sunshine, as Hersh puts it, that characterizes Hersh’s legendary work with Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave but goes even further inward as it explores the intimacy and complexity that sits alongside Hersh’s fierce independence”

Kristin Hersh: “Sweeter, sadder, and somehow no less alive. Some records demand
to be made. And you know this is the case when the songs function as systems in a body.
I octavized an acoustic baritone as the skeleton, cellos are the lungs, a Nashville-strung Collings and glockenspiel were the fingertips feeling around in this weird-ass dark space, and drums are always your heart, of course… but the vocals are a strange narrator here. A narrator lost
in the story, of all things, more like eyes.”

Along with the (great) news, we get a first taster, titled DANDELION.

Soul-stirring musing. Smooth violins, tender melody. Starry-eyed vocals.
Fragile and romantic. Marianne Faithful. Acoustic melancholia. Bright yellow
flower. Counting forwards. Pearly eyes. Not dirty. Poetic affectionateness.
Candlelight dreaming. Whispering silence in motion for shadowy moments.

Stream/buy.

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