Kristin Bruce - Natal Loving Care - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The first album proper for over ten years from the Throwing Muses' lynchpin whose prolific career has seen her heralded queen of the alternative in the intervening period. A highly personalised sociopathic gem delivered as a futuristic rewriting of how music works, a melodious breeze with a tail wind of venomous din. A ten-track album, her tenth studio set. Enveloping the juxtaposition of the concept of dark sunshine, a brooding solo record creating with friends to expand her off-kilter sonic vision; a squally, squeaky mix of discordant beauty.Feedback and phasing gyrate from simply strummed normality, imagine Dinosaur Jr and My Bloody Valentine cranking up a Dylan couplet. Messing with both extremes of the sonic spectrum atonal and arrhythmic, a unique sound and a glorious return to form for one of alternative rock's true innovators.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. Kristin Hersh, July 2018She's still as powerful a presence as she ever was. Pitchfork The prodigious output and commitment to quality is pretty staggering, but then Kristin Hersh is a very, very special musician. The Quietus1-LAX2-No Shade In Shadow3-Halfway Home4-Fox Point5-Lethe6-Loudmouth7-Gin8-Tulum9-Breathe In10-Lady Godiva Album Tracks 1. Lax 2. No Shad

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.Previously, the juxtaposition of light and dark has been essential to the drama of Throwing Muses and 50FOOTWAVE, but this solo set is something of a departure; more inward looking, quieter but outspoken, underpinned by background noise for ambience and awkwardness.InchPassion sounds less angry, more grateful, I think,Inch Kristin muses, Inchsweeter, sadder. And somehow, no less alive... over car engines and rain in New England and whistling ducks and wind chimes in New Orleans, it all sounds wistful to me.Inch'Clear Pond Road' is a life-affirming statement, a further part of the jigsaw, a very personal memoir, from street signs to snapshots; a late blossoming and coming-of-age from a true icon of independence. The record is both intimate yet expansive, written largely within the confines of Hersh's home, making the proceedings ever more personal.InchFew artists understand the intensity of living one's art like HershInch The GuardianInchA fearless rock innovatorInch New York Times.1. Bewitched Reruns2. Ms Haha3. Dandelion4. Constance Street5. Thank You, Corner Blight6. St. Valentines Day Massacre7. Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire8. Eyeshine9. Palmetto10. Tunnels Album Tracks 1. Bewitched Reruns 2. Ms Haha 3. Dandelion 4. Constance Street 5. Thank You, Corner Blight 6. St. Valentines Day Massacre 7. Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire 8. Eyeshine 9. Palmetto 10. Tunnels

Kristin Korb is a jewel of jewels. The bassist and vocalist commands both of her instruments with panache, engaging them simultaneously with an ease comparable to breathing. (Tyran Grillo, All About Jazz) There are few bassists who can sing and there are even fewer who can do it well. Kristin Korb is one of those artists who make you forget that she is playing the bass when you hear her crystalline voice. Inspired by the days when music was romantic and made you want to dance, Kristin and her trio embody that spirit and carry their audiences along for the ride. Love eventually brought the American bassist and vocalist to Denmark in 2011. On her new , Kristen Korb explores the Holiday season, performing traditional classics as well as twentieth century new classics Album Tracks 1. Christmas Will Really Be Christmas 2. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm 3. That's What I Want for Christmas 4. Winter Wonderland 5. Up on the Housetop / Here Comes Santa Claus 6. Up on the Housetop 7. Here Comes Santa Claus 8. Santa Baby 9. Snowbound 10. Angels We Have Heard on High 11. Christmas Time Is Here 12. Christmas Is 13. Silent Night 14. We Three Kings 15. Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep