At forty, Kristin Hersh still sounds like the tormented teenager who founded Throwing Muses. These days, though, her rage has been tempered and sweetened by years of travel, parenting, music-making, and management of the bipolar disorder that ravaged her early life (and fueled some of the best punk rock ever committed to guitar by a woman). Raw, disorderly, and deeply beguiling, Hersh’s music is always an unfiltered expression of the world around her, which changes every few years as she picks up her family and moves around the country to try on another life. Her latest album, then, is like a collection of new pictures shot through a familiar lens.
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