Throwing Muses

Throwing Muses - Anthology (2011) 2CDs, Limited Edition Music

Posted by Designol at March 23, 2022

2011 anthology from the Alt-Rock and Indie pioneers, released to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the release of their debut album. Compiled by the band, the 21 track selection eschews most of the singles in favor of personal favorites, and enjoys a non-chronological sequence which makes for interesting juxtapositions and encourages a reassessment of the music. Limited deluxe two CD edition comes slipcased with a hardback book featuring notes by Kristin Hersh and a bonus 22 track CD of B-sides and rarities.

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Throwing Muses - Sun Racket (2020) Music

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 30, 2022

Throwing Muses - Sun Racket (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 228 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 80 Mb | 00:34:33
Alternative Rock, Post-Punk, Female Vocal | Label: Fire Records

Sun Racket is the brand new album from legendary Boston trio Throwing Muses, consisting of Kristin Hersh, David Narcizo and Bernard Georges. 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. A ten-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.

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Throwing Muses - Moonlight Concessions (2025) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at March 15, 2025

‘Moonlight Concessions’ goes back to basics, a return for Throwing Muses to their esoteric off-kilter best courtesy of Kristin’s pin-sharp sketches and their suitably abrasive musical arrangements. The album follows their acclaimed ‘Sun Racket’ from 2020, a heady set filled with tough and tender tales spiked with surreal imagery.

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Throwing Muses - Moonlight Concessions (2025) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at March 15, 2025

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Throwing Muses - Moonlight Concessions (2025) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at March 15, 2025

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Kristin Hersh - Hips and Makers (30th Anniversary Edition) (1994/2024) Music

Posted by Rtax at May 2, 2024

Kristin Hersh - Hips and Makers (30th Anniversary Edition) (1994/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 582 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 244 MB
1:29:15 | Folk Rock, Indie Rock | Label: 4AD

Expanded 30th Anniversary Edition of Kristin Hersh’s Stunning Debut Album. The album plus b-sides and string versions. Also includes lyrics and sleeve notes by Kristin. In 1994, the arrival of a solo album by Kristin Hersh seemed somewhat redundant. After all, Throwing Muses—the band she co-founded with stepsister Tanya Donnelly—had come to be defined by Hersh's singular vocals and songwriting style, both of which moved in unpredictable directions that were wholly unique and intensely evocative. It was Hersh's artistic dominance in the Muses that led to Donnelly leaving the band in 1991 to join the Breeders, then, later, form Belly to play her own, more traditionally hook-oriented take on indie rock. The first Donnelly-less Muses album, Red Heaven, found the band working as a trio, with Hersh's presence even more dominant. The follow-up—University—was recorded soon after, but was temporarily shelved for Hersh to record and release Hips and Makers. Initially viewed as a "get it out of my system" album, Hersh recorded it in fits and spurts over the summer of 1993, tapping Lenny Kaye to produce. Although she very much takes an unaccompanied guitar-and-voice approach to this material, the cavernous recording style combined with Hersh's individualistic approach to composition and tempo make this anything but typical coffee shop material. Vivid lyrics ("Don't kill the God of Sadness/ Just don't let her get you down" on "The Letter," for instance, or "press your palm to your snow-coated thought cage" on "Beestung") are both sharply focused and deeply impressionistic, and none of the songs here appear to have anything resembling a traditional chorus.

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VA - Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD (2014) Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 17, 2020

VA - Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD (2014)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 994 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 367 Mb | 02:38:31
Alternative Rock, Post-Punk, Shoegaze, Dreampop, Indie, Folk | Label: The Friday Project

Thanks to a roster including Cocteau Twins and Pixies, UK imprint 4AD has maintained its status as a force in independent music for more than 30 years. Author Martin Aston talks about his exhaustive new history of the label.

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Tanya Donelly - Sleepwalk EP (2001, 4AD # BAD 2108 CD) Music

Posted by luckburz at Oct. 10, 2014

A founding member of three of the most successful bands of the post-punk era, singer/songwriter Tanya Donelly was born July 14, 1966, in Newport, RI. At the age of 16, she and stepsister Kristin Hersh formed Throwing Muses, which in 1985 became the first American band ever signed to the influential British label 4AD; not only did the Muses' dreamy, swirling guitar sound prove highly influential on many of the alternative acts to emerge in their wake, but they also made any number of unprecedented advances into the male-dominated world of underground rock…

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Tanya Donelly - Pretty Deep [CD-S] (1997, 4AD # BAD 7007 CD) Music

Posted by luckburz at Oct. 8, 2014

A founding member of three of the most successful bands of the post-punk era, singer/songwriter Tanya Donelly was born July 14, 1966, in Newport, RI. At the age of 16, she and stepsister Kristin Hersh formed Throwing Muses, which in 1985 became the first American band ever signed to the influential British label 4AD; not only did the Muses' dreamy, swirling guitar sound prove highly influential on many of the alternative acts to emerge in their wake, but they also made any number of unprecedented advances into the male-dominated world of underground rock…

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Tanya Donelly - The Bright Light [CD-S] (1997, 4AD # BAD D 7012 CD) Music

Posted by luckburz at Oct. 8, 2014

A founding member of three of the most successful bands of the post-punk era, singer/songwriter Tanya Donelly was born July 14, 1966, in Newport, RI. At the age of 16, she and stepsister Kristin Hersh formed Throwing Muses, which in 1985 became the first American band ever signed to the influential British label 4AD; not only did the Muses' dreamy, swirling guitar sound prove highly influential on many of the alternative acts to emerge in their wake, but they also made any number of unprecedented advances into the male-dominated world of underground rock…

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