Throwing Muses new ‘Dark Blue’ video + new album out Sept 4th

“Dark Blue” starts in California, drives to New Orleans, then flies to Reykjavik. I think it ends in dark New England at a blue table covered in blue flowers; my kitchen by the ocean last year. Sorta grim, kinda pretty.

I had to mimic the feedback of my favorite old effects pedal, which had been drowned and melted. This wasn’t a bad thing; in fact, I haven’t been able to recreate the perfect combination of drowning and melting this thing went through in new pedals, which is why I had to fake it. So the guitar feedback and harmonics are an approximation of what water and fire do to a soul, I guess. To the soul of a machine, anyway.

Ultimately, “Dark Blue” says that in running from black holes, you only increase their density and drawing power. They will cross time zones to hunt you down in dreams and songs to tell you that you’re loved, whether or not you wanna know that.”
Kristin Hersh

Photo credit: Steve Gullick

“An essential truth kit for a post-truth world”The Wire

“A resounding and concise restatement of core values”Mojo ★★★★

“A worthy addition to a formidable canon” Classic Rock ★★★★

“As intense as ever” Financial Times ★★★★

“Terrifying and strangely beautiful” Music OMH ★★★★

Returning with their signature sound, the legendary Boston trio Throwing Muses, consisting of Kristin Hersh, David Narcizo and Bernard Georges, release their tenth studio album ‘Sun Racket’ on 4th September via Fire Records.

‘Sun Racket’ is an outpouring of modal guitars, reverbed shapes, pounding drums and driving bass set behind Kristin Hersh’s well-thumbed notebook of storylines and haunting vocals that get into your psyche.