Former Throwing Muses frontwoman Kristin Hersh is releasing a new solo album called Possible Dust Clouds on October 5 via Fire Records. The record will be her 10th solo album in 28 years, with her debut being 1994’s Hips and Makers and her most recent 2016’s Wyatt at the Coyote Palace. Our song of the day, “No Shade In Shadow,” is the album’s lead single that’s’ full of heavy effects pedals. Hersch says this about the new music:
"Sometimes the most subversive thing I can do musically is adhere to standard song structure, sometimes the creepiest chords are the ones we’ve heard before, twisted into different shapes, and sometimes a story is lived a thousand times before we can ride it like a roller coaster. Nothing wholly unfamiliar is gonna make you look twice. When you can describe a record as being ‘deceptively’ anything, you’re hinting at the sociopathic nature of music. Something I love. Imagine truly buying your own sunshine and charm, but also your darkness and violence; the two sides of your psychology showing each other off in relief. Songs can do that… we can’t, really. Darkness we’ve seen. Dark sunshine? Still cool.”
Below, watch Kristin Hersh’s KEXP in-studio performance, recorded in 2016.
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