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LAX, from Kristin Hersh's upcoming album, Possible Dust Clouds.

Cosmos

Kristin Hersh
Releases new album ‘Possible Dust Clouds’
Out 5th October 2018 on Fire Records
Pre-order link: http://bit.ly/possibledustclouds

CD/LP/ Ltd Edition ‘Silver’ vinyl

 “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. Dark sunshine? Still cool.

I usually play all the instruments on my solo records - essentially the sound of having no friends - but sociopaths can’t realize their potential without people to work out their grievances on and this record is a freakin’ sociopath. So I invited my friends to the party I wanted to hear. Not a live record but an alive record. 

Because a lot of live records don’t sound live, just poorly recorded. And self-conscious musicians can’t let fly. I wanted to recreate the impact of a show. Unpretentious, with a muscular song body running through the room. This entailed seriously messing with both extremes of the sonic spectrum: the fundamentals (basics, rhythm section, roots) but also with the detail (percussion, high end, effects). These two strata asked to sound eccentric: atonal and arhythmic. So when the song body runs through the room, it’s not wholly unfamiliar, just dressed oddly enough to make you look twice. Dark sunshine, still cool. Hopefully, anyway.

My friends helped me make a nice party noise, a goofy sociopath. Everyone who stopped by the studio was asked to make some noise and they pretty much did. A party that lasted for a few years, it’s only now dying down. A friend called this morning asking when the bus was leaving. A rickety, squealy, squeaky bus...none of us want to miss it.”

Kristin Hersh, July 2018

Throwing Muses’ lynchpin, Kristin Hersh’s prolific career has seen her heralded queen of the alternative release. 

Her tenth studio album, ‘Possible Dust Clouds’ is a highly personalised sociopathic gem delivered as a futuristic rewriting of how music works, a melodious breeze with a tail wind of venomous din. 

Enveloping the juxtaposition of the concept of ‘dark sunshine’, a brooding solo record created 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.
‘Possible Dust Clouds’ is a glorious return to form for one of alternative rock’s true innovators.

“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

“Throwing Muses became a byword for college-rock feminism in the late 80s, largely because of Hersh’s uncompromising impressionist poetry of emotional anguish, subjugated womanhood and mental illness.” The Guardian

Track list
1.	LAX
2.	No Shade In Shadow
3.	Halfway Home
4.	Fox Point
5.	Lethe
6.	Loudmouth
7.	Gin
8.	Tulum
9.	Breathe In
10.	Lady Godiva

Kristin Hersh - No Shade In Shadow

Second serving of The Symphonic Jesus Lizard, rendered in Reaper with Spitfire Audio's BBC Symphony Discover. Why do I do this?

Pastoral (Jesus Lizard)

More fun with Spitfire Audio's  BBC Symphony Discover. After the Westworld scoring competition, I went into withdrawal - desperate to write music to picture, I turned to the classics: F.W. Murnau's 1927 "Nosferatu." I may never get all the way through it but I finished 3 sketches. Here is No. 1.

Three Sketches for Murnau's Nosferatu:  1. Titles And Exposition

More fun with Spitfire Audio's BBC Symphony Discover. Sketch No. 2 out of 3.

Three Sketches for Murnau's Nosferatu:  2.The Plague Ship

More fun with Spitfire Audio's BBC Symphony Discover. Sketch No. 3 of 3.

Three Sketches for Murnau's Nosferatu:  3.ACT V Scene 1

My name is DREW O'DOHERTY and I'm a Cub Scout drop out who was born on the day "Never Mind The Bollocks" was released.

In addition to the music I make under my own name as a singer/songwriter, and the touring and recording I've done as a guitarist with bands such as TED LEO + THE PHARMACISTS and WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY, I have also composed the scores for independent films, PSAs, and nationally televised ad campaigns. 

You can hear some of that music here. 

Thank you for listening.   

drewodohertymusic@gmail.com

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