 |  | excellent, and what an innovative guitarist |  |
Kristin is a phenomenal singer-songwriter...this is full of really great songs, and her voice is a treasure...she also plays all of the instruments with perfect arrangements...
her guitar parts are so unique, it is amazing.
I have been buying her albums, one at a time, for a few months now, and
am never disappointed!
August 2, 2008This was the album that started waking me up to Kristin's awesomeness again after being off my musical radar for a little while. A much more diverse and solid effort than the previous couple of solo albums. "Your Dirty Answer", "Trouble", "Candyland", and "Ruby" are among my favorites here. This one is a close second to her phenomenal Learn to Sing Like a Star album.
July 24, 2008 | | Too Inconsistent To Be Exemplary | |
Kristin Hersh is brimming with otential, yet this album seems rather sparse on inspiration. The music lacks any sort of real cohesion and the album comes off as an altogether rather hit and miss effort. Some tracks like "Spain" and "Ruby" show the talent she showed with her band Throwing Muses while the majority of the album sounds like outtakes. With a voice rather reminiscent of Joanna Newsom, she is rather an aquired taste. She can certainly write some catchy songs yet on this album it seems like she has become caught up in sounding alternative for the sake of proving a point, that point being a non-conforming artist. If this is non-conformity, what is the norm? Because this album is by no means normal in any way. It ends up becoming an effort just to listen to this album, in some instances it does reveal a true beauty. But for the most part it is a sparse wasteland of boredom.
August 31, 2007I keep this album in a subgroup that includes
Hanne Hukkelberg - Little Things
Bjork - Debut
Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
Mary Margaret O Hara - Miss America
Katell Keineg - Jet
Anjani - Blue alert
Kate Bush - The Hounds of Love
Martha Wainwright - Martha Wainwright
Patti Smith - Horses
Sinead O Connor - The lion and the Cobra
Delores O Riordan (The Cranberries) - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
etc.
Modern female vocalists. I can highly recommend all of the above.
November 27, 2006I've been a fan of Kristin's since the late 80's about House Tornado time. She and the muses (and the spinoff Belly) have always been on my list of top few bands. But this album, quite unexpectedly rose straight to the top. Great lyrics and such a strange, edgy, uncomfortable mood and rhythms. I think it's cause she's playing the instruments too, there is something realized in this album that just isn't in her other work. Very nice.
July 19, 2006More reviews at Amazon.com ...
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