Following the sensational Scott Matthews event recently, we’re delighted to return to St. George’s Church on Friday 29th September, this time with the one and only Kristin Hersh!
The Throwing Muses founder first played at RMH in 2018, and it brings us great joy to welcome her back to our seaside town once again. A truly wonderful setting for such an artist…
“A fearless rock innovator” – New York Times
Kristin Hersh’s new album ‘Clear Pond Road’ 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.
“Passion sounds less angry, more grateful, I think,” Kristin muses, “sweeter, 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.”
‘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.
“Few artists understand the intensity of living one’s art like Hersh” – The Guardian
“Her songs have always been both confessional and formally challenging; they expose her, but also evade us, throwing down clues and scurrying into dark thickets before revealing anything more” – NPR
“Kristin Hersh’s tough, instinctive wail, has been one of the greatest sounds in American underground rock for decades” – Stereogum
