catalogue

HERSH, KRISTIN

POSSIBLE DUST CLOUDS (FIRE RECORDS)

HERSH, KRISTIN - POSSIBLE DUST CLOUDS 127842
format:
1 CD
release:
05.10.2018
label:
FIRE RECORDS
item ID:
127842
barcode:
0809236153623
A highly personalised sociopathic gem delivered as a futuristic rewriting of how music works, a melodious breeze with a tail wind of venomous din.

A ten-track album, her tenth studio set. Enveloping the juxtaposition of the concept of `dark sunshine', a brooding solo record creating with friends to expand her off-kilter sonic vision; a squally, squeaky mix of discordant beauty.

Feedback and phasing gyrate from simply strummed normality, imagine Dinosaur Jr and My Bloody Valentine cranking up a Dylan couplet.

Messing with both extremes of the sonic spectrum: atonal and arrhythmic, a unique sound and a glorious return to form for one of alternative rock's true innovators.

"Sometimes the most subversive thing I can do musically is adhere to standard song structure, sometimes the creepiest chords are the ones we've heard before, twisted into different shapes, and sometimes a story is lived a thousand times before we can ride it like a roller coaster.

Nothing wholly unfamiliar is gonna make you look twice. When you can describe a record as being "deceptively" anything, you're hinting at the sociopathic nature of music.

Something I love. Imagine truly buying your own sunshine and charm, but also your darkness and violence; the two sides of your psychology showing each other off in relief.

Songs can do that...we can't, really. Darkness we've seen." - Kristin Hersh, July 2018 "She's still as powerful a presence as she ever was." - Pitchfork "The prodigious output and commitment to quality is pretty staggering, but then Kristin Hersh is a very, very special musician." - The Quietus
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. LAX
  • 1.2. NO SHADE IN SHADOW
  • 1.3. HALFWAY HOME
  • 1.4. FOX POINT
  • 1.5. LETHE
  • 1.6. LOUDMOUTH
  • 1.7. GIN
  • 1.8. TULUM
  • 1.9. BREATHE IN
  • 1.10. LADY GODIVA