Throwing Muses - Sun Racket

Brand-new album from the legendary Boston trio!

A blur of modal guitars, reverbed shapes, echoey drums and driving bass set behind Kristin Hersh's well-thumbed notebook of storylines

A 10-song opus of suitably wrought tales set against a wall of sound!

Throwing Muses return and sing songs aquatic; toasting the dark blue of the water, the bywater viewed from Bo Diddley bridge? The bridge collapsing, the water waiting — who is saving us?

Returning with their signature sound, the legendary Boston trio Throwing Muses, consisting of Kristin Hersh, David Narcizo and Bernard Georges, release their tenth studio album Sun Racket via Fire Records.

The follow-up to 2013's Purgatory/Paradise is an outpouring of modal guitars, reverbed shapes, echoey drums and driving bass set behind Kristen Hersh's well-thumbed notebook of storylines and haunting vocals that get into your psyche.

A 10-song opus of suitably wrought tales set against a wall of sound that's at once calm and ethereal before building into glorious cacophonous crescendos.

Sun Racket has always been geographical, it started as a New Englander in California. A West Coast sound at New England scale, then it travelled to the East Coast and the elements got more aggressive with deeper roots.

When they last made an album a few years back, Throwing Muses were shattered. Pieces were coming and going, elements repeating and charging the whole. "It sounded beautiful jumping around like that," says Hersh. Two-minute songs reappearing as twisted instrumentals or another song's bridge. They mimicked the effect live which kept them on their toes. Whatever was happening was already over in other words.

Sun Racket is the opposite. It refused to do anything but sit still. It says, "sit here and deal."

"All it asked of us was to comingle two completely disparate sonic vocabularies: one heavy noise, the other delicate music box. Turns out we didn't have to do much. Sun Racket knew what it was doing and pushed us aside, which is always best. After 30 years of playing together, we trust each other implicitly but we trust the music more." — Kristin Hersh

 

Side 1

1. Dark Blue

2. Bywater

3. Maria Laguna

4. Bo Diddley Bridge

5. Milk At McDonald’s

Side 2

1. Upstairs Dan

2. St. Charles

3. Frosting

4. Kay Catherine

5. Sue’s

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