Throwing Muses - Sun Racket (Monochrome Edition) [White Vinyl]

Fire Records

£21.58

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: FIRELP574M
Barcode: 0809236157447
Release Date: 27th November 2020
Genre: Rock

Ltd edition WHITE vinyl LP with DL code in new monochrome edition sleeve

‘Sun Racket’ is the brand new album from legendary Boston trio Throwing Muses, consisting of Kristin Hersh, David Narcizo and Bernard Georges. The follow up to 2013’s ‘Purgatory/Paradise’ is an outpouring of modal guitars, reverbed shapes, echoey drums and driving bass set behind Kristin Hersh’s well-thumbed notebook of storylines. A ten-song opus of suitably wrought tales set against a wall of sound that’s 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. “It sounded beautiful jumping around like that”. Two-minute songs reappearing as twisted instrumentals or another song’s bridge. They mimicked the effect live which kept them on their toes. Whatever was happening was already over in other words. ‘Sun Racket’ is the opposite. It refused to do anything but sit still. It says, “sit here and deal”. “All it asked of us was to comingle two completely disparate sonic vocabularies: one heavy noise, the other delicate music box. Turns out we didn’t 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 more” - Kristin Hersh And so, they continue. Business unusual.

★★★★★ Metro
★★★★ Financial Times
★★★★ Evening Standard
★★★★ Mojo
★★★★ Classic Rock
★★★★ Uncut

“A stunning return to form”
The Quietus

“Essential Throwing Muses”
Paste

“A ground-breaking band who changed the face of alternative music rather than follow the rule book.”
MXDWN

“Pioneers of the 80s/early 90s college rock sound”
Pitchfork

“One of the greatest sounds in the American underground”
Stereogum

Track List:
Side A
1. Dark Blue
2. Bywater
3. Maria Laguna
4. Bo Diddley Bridge
5. Milk At Mcdonald’s

Side B
6. Upstairs Dan
7. St Charles
8. Frosting
9. Kay Catherine
10. Sue's