Kristin Hersh - Possible Dust Clouds - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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

Following a special vinyl for this year's Record Store Day celebrating it's tenth anniversary, 'Crooked' is reissued on black vinyl and CD. 'A figurehead for feminist indie rock' (Classic Rock), Kristin Hersh achieved a music and publishing first when her eighth solo album was initially released as a multi-media book in 2009. Hersh's 'poetic, provocative and puzzling songcraft' (The Washington Post) makes 'Crooked' a stunning record. The resplendent, melancholic 'Flooding' came to Hersh in the form of song but was also a premonition of the imminent death of close friend and musician Vic Chesnutt. Mainstay in her recent live shows, 'Mississippi Kite' is snarly and unsettling whilst the spectral psychedelic tones of 'Rubidoux' stem from a 50foot Wave car ride and a late-night recording session. The songs still lead the way hitting Hersh fully formed but it's her beguiling raspy vocals paired with guitar, and any other instrument that she chose to play on this album, that has a beautiful intensity that's jarring, unpredictable and inherent in her music. 'She's still as powerful a presence as she ever was.' Pitchfork Album Tracks 1. Moan 2. Sand 3. Glass 4. Mississippi Kite 5. Fortune 6. Coals 7. Crooked 8. Krait 9. Flooding 10. Rubidoux

The debut solo album from Kristin Hersh and features guest appearances from Jane Scarpantonii and Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Album Tracks 1. Your Ghost 2. Beestung 3. Teeth 4. Sundrops 5. Sparky 6. Houdini Blues 7. A Loon 8. Velvet Days 9. Close Your Eyes 10. Me and My Charms 11. Tuesday Night 12. The Letter 13. Lurch 14. The Cuckoo 15. Hips and Makers