★★★★★
As a music medium, the disc is dead to Kristin Hersh. In an attempt to divorce music from that disposable piece of plastic, the innovative songstress decided to release her ninth solo record as a book. The 58-page album-book, published by an imprint of HarperCollins, is filled with song lyrics and essays, juxtaposed by vibrant photographs of preternatural flowers...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Kristin Hersh's band Throwing Muses are one of those strange beasts that everyone who's spent any amount of time immersed in the world of American alternative rock has heard of, but very few have actually heard. Cult figures of 90s anti-grunge eclecticism and shimmering multi-layered alternafolk, they've pretty much been on hiatus since 1997, allowing the Muses' two lead singers, Tanya Donelly and Hersh herself, to concentrate on work with The Breeders and solo projects respectively...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Former Throwing Muses frontwoman and Appalachian lullaby- singing mom is back with her third solo album. But just because she's calmer now than she was during her days with Throwing Muses, don't assume Sky Motel is a washed- out affair. Hersh's demons may have been vanquished, but her lyrical acuity can still pierce and unsettle. Nowadays, it's just not so strident. Hersh revisits Throwing Muses territory by putting together a band for Sky Motel...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
★★★★★
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- spin.com
2010-08-25
★★★★★
Kristin Hersh has been crouching in the shadows, scrutinising her open sores and gently nursing her inner turmoil for nearly 20 years now. Doesn't time fly? Maybe. But Hersh is a woman who would probably argue otherwise. As cliched as it would be to mention demons here, Hersh has had more than her fair share to wrestle with...
- uk.launch.yahoo.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Has any female indie artist had a more successful and varied career over the past 15 years than Kristin Hersh? After founding Throwing Muses, one of the more acclaimed indie bands of the '80s and '90s, Hersh later went solo and released Hips And Makers, one of the best albums of the '90s (and still her best to date).
That album and subsequent releases were largely acoustic affairs, featuring Hersh's beautifully haunting voice over her trademark Collings guitar...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
Has any female indie artist had a more successful and varied career over the past 15 years than Kristin Hersh? After founding Throwing Muses, one of the more acclaimed indie bands of the '80s and '90s, Hersh later went solo and released Hips And Makers, one of the best albums of the '90s (and still her best to date).
That album and subsequent releases were largely acoustic affairs, featuring Hersh's beautifully haunting voice over her trademark Collings guitar...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
Kristin Hersh has long been established as one of America's most talented songwriters in a 20-plus year career that's taken in roles as leader of Throwing Muses, the somewhat louder 50 Foot Wave and as a solo artist. Learn to Sing Like a Star is the latest episode of the latter following a stint with 50 Foot Wave, a group formed due to the unavailability of the Muses' drummer David Narcizo, though he's the featured sticksman here...
- www.noripcord.com
2009-07-21
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