Description
lsquoSun Racketrsquo is the brand new album from legendary Boston trio Throwing Muses, consisting of Kristin Hersh, David Narcizo and Bernard Georges. The follow up to 2013rsquos lsquoPurgatoryParadisersquo is an outpouring of modal guitars, reverbed shapes, echoey drums and driving bass set behind Kristen Hershrsquos wellthumbed notebook of storylines.A tensong opus of suitably wrought tales set against a wall of sound thatrsquos at once calm and ethereal before building into glorious cacophonous crescendos. When Throwing Muses wrote their last album, they were shattered. Pieces were coming and going, elements repeating and charging the whole. ldquoIt sounded beautiful jumping around like thatrdquo. Twominute songs reappearing as twisted instrumentals or another songrsquos bridge. They mimicked the effect live which kept them on their toes.Whatever was happening was already over in other words. lsquoSun Racketrsquo is the opposite. It refused to do anything but sit still. It says, ldquosit here and dealrdquo. ldquoAll it asked of us was to comingle two completely disparate sonic vocabularies one heavy noise, the other delicate music box. Turns out we didnrsquot have to do much. Sun Racket knew what it was doing and pushed us aside, which is always best. After thirty years of playing together, we trust each other implicitly but we trust the music morerdquo Kristin Hersh And so, they continue. Business unusual.
