KRISTIN HERSH - Crooked (Reissue) - LP - Vinyl [JUL 26]

LP - Black Vinyl.  

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

‘A figurehead for feminist indie rock’ (Classic Rock), Kristin Hersh achieved a music and publishing first when her eighth solo album was initially released as a multi-media book in 2009.

Hersh’s “poetic, provocative and puzzling songcraft” (The Washington Post) makes ‘Crooked’ a stunning record.

The resplendent, melancholic ‘Flooding’ came to Hersh in the form of song but was also a premonition of the imminent death of close friend and musician Vic Chesnutt. Mainstay in her recent live shows, ‘Mississippi Kite’ is snarly and unsettling whilst the spectral psychedelic tones of ‘Rubidoux’ stem from a 50foot Wave car ride and a late-night recording session.

The songs still lead the way hitting Hersh fully formed but it’s her beguiling raspy vocals paired with guitar, and any other instrument that she chose to play on this album, that has a beautiful intensity that’s jarring, unpredictable and inherent in her music.

“She's still as powerful a presence as she ever was.” Pitchfork

“Her significant solo output has been remarkable” Drowned In Sound

Tracklist: 

A1.        Moan
A2.        Sand
A3.        Glass
A4.        Mississippi Kite
A5.        Fortune

B1.        Coals
B2.        Crooked
B3.        Krait
B4.        Flooding
B5.        Rubidoux