KRISTIN HERSH - Clear Pond Road (Transparent Blue Vinyl)

This 2023 Kristin Hersh album is a cinematic road trip; a series of personal vignettes from a fiercely independent auteur, sitting plush with layers of all-consuming strings and mellotron. It’s a watershed moment in a career overflowing with creative firsts and inspirational thinking; an elegant piece of personal reportage, a home movie caught in time. Previously, the juxtaposition of light and dark has been essential to the drama of Throwing Muses and 50FOOTWAVE, but this solo set is something of a departure; more inward looking, quieter but outspoken, underpinned by background noise for ambience and awkwardness. “Passion sounds less angry, more grateful, I think,” Kristin muses, “sweeter, sadder. And somehow, no less alive… over car engines and rain in New England and whistling ducks and wind chimes in New Orleans, it all sounds wistful to me.” ‘Clear Pond Road’ is a life-affirming statement, a further part of the jigsaw, a very personal memoir, from street signs to snapshots; a late blossoming and coming-of-age from a true icon of independence. The record is both intimate yet expansive, written largely within the confines of Hersh’s home, making the proceedings ever more personal. “Few artists understand the intensity of living one’s art like Hersh” The Guardian. “A fearless rock innovator” New York Times.

Format: LP
Edition: Transparent blue vinyl, includes download card; UK indies only
Label: FIRE RECORDS
Catalogue No.: FIRELP649B
Barcode: 0809236164971
Availability date: 11 Dec 2026
Genre: Rock / INDIE

Distribution restriction: Indies Only

Track listing

Side A
A1 Bewitched Reruns
A2 Ms Haha
A3 Dandelion
A4 Constance Street
A5 Thank You, Corner Blight
Side B.
B1 St. Valentines Day Massacre
B2 Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire
B3 Eyeshine
B4 Palmetto
B5 Tunnels