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Wake-up call and reminiscence: The first notes on the new album by 50 Foot Wave should evoke memories of the pre-grunge rock on the fabulous SST label. And we don’t know whether Kristin Hersh, once the singer, guitarist and songwriter of the Throwing Muses, like many of her colleagues, now looked into the Corona mirror to review her own story musically. The Throwing Muses were the imaginary sisters of the Pixies and in the late 80s/early 90s they were not at all in the wake of the grunge boom.
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But what Hersh produces here in the trio formed in 2003 with Bernard Georges (bass, also ex-Throwing-Muses) and Rob Ahlers (drums, ex-Chalk-FarM) is a compact chunk of indie rock, music that gets down to business. With a few slanted positions and sonic youth twists, lots of soul and raging guitar melodies and mantra madness (“Broken Sugar”). In other words: the three of them play the somewhat out of tune songs that their first bands didn’t dare to leave the hut with.
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