In 1983, Hersh co-founded the band with her stepsister, singer-guitarist Tanya Donelly, and the duo started playing together when they were in high school, where they were branded “art chicks” by classmates. Welcome to Throwing Muses circa 2020, a trio that includes bassist Bernard Georges and drummer David Narcizo, a unit that’s been intact since 1992. “One is really heavy, rolling, hypnotic and distorted and the other is like a music box - delicate with sound effects, like field recordings, a layered technique but quiet.” I thought ‘Somehow, I have to combine them.’ They’re two very different sides of the same coin, I suppose.”Īnd those are? Hersh pauses for a moment. It’s just there were these two really disparate elements of a similar approach. Discussing the vagaries of “ Sun Racket,” the new album by the veteran art-rockers released in early September, Hersh says, “It only has two sonic vocabularies. Ideally, the music is refuge or comfort for both the player and the listener. I wouldn’t be performing if it wasn’t a chance to disappear into the music.” Throwing Muses (Courtesy Steve Gullick) I don’t mind talking about music with people who love it, but I’m very, very shy. “I thought that should be a job, where you don’t have to attach your name or face to it or make videos. “All I ever really wanted to do was mail songs out,” she says. For a moment, Hersh fantasizes about having done her work anonymously over the years, absent the star-making machinery. Kristin Hersh, co-founding singer-songwriter-guitarist of Throwing Muses, is on the phone talking about the responsibilities that come with her job, a job she’s had, more or less, since she was a teenager. Kristin Hersh (Courtesy Gabriella Marks) This article is more than 2 years old.
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