The starting point of this album was a bet that Kristin Hersh, singer, songwriter and producer of the Throwing Muses, had been received with a friend. No, she claimed that her state of mind was not dependent on the seasons. The guy held against it. It was about a dollar. Hersh willingly paid when she felt something in a summer day that spring, autumn and winter did not have to offer. Moonlight Concessions begins with the song.
As always, when Hersh texts for her band, she lends short sentences together. And this is how this typical throwing muses is created, which had already given the indie rock of the 90s a kind of Haiku level: short, short, to the point. At that time the band played Ruppig, on Hersh’s brilliant and successful solo album hips and makers, the cello determined the sound next to their voice.
The new album brings the two worlds together. Moonlight Concessions is a Throwing Muses unplugged album. With meditative pieces such as “Theremini” or the rustic “Drugstore Classic”, in which Kristin Hersh sings like Stevie Nicks after a damn bad day.
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