Wow! Who would have thought that a new Throwing Muses album in 2020 would sound so good? From the opening punch of the first track, \u201cDark Blue,\u201d Kristin Hersh, David Narcizo, and Bernard Georges instantly prove that they still sound as good as they did in their heyday. The song is moody, melodic, and heavy all at the same time and it sounds amazing.<\/p>\n
Though this album is a brief thirty-four minutes, the band works hard to get their points across. Hersh\u2019s songwriting is still as introspective and outward looking as it ever was. Her vocals on \u201cBo Diddley Bridge\u201d and \u201cBywater\u201d are really sharp and really help to keep the Muses a strong and noteworthy band this far into their career. While \u201cMaria Laguna\u201d could have been a bit longer, the brevity of the song heighten its bright spots.<\/p>\n
\u201cUpstairs Dan\u201d is one of the band\u2019s best songs; there, it\u2019s been said! It features a hypnotic riff that sets the pace for the entire track with Hersh\u2019s vocals guiding the way. It\u2019s just an outstanding song and one that quickly jumps onto my top ten list for this year. \u201cFrosting\u201d is another quality track with more great vocals and hypnotic riffing. It\u2019s great to see that Hersh wasn\u2019t ready to make a good Muses record until she felt that the songs were worthy of the Muses name. She couldn\u2019t have picked a better top-notch batch of great material. Even some of the weaker tracks like \u201cSue\u2019s\u201d and \u201cKay Catherine\u201d help make the album better than it really should be. <\/p>\n
There\u2019s no way that anyone would or could have conceived that a Throwing Muses album would sound this great and relevant in such a year as this. Let\u2019s hope that the band continues on and can keep up this amazing momentum. With all that said, I hope this doesn\u2019t become one of the more overlooked records of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":34197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10584],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-46028","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-throwing-muses","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46028"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}