Kristin Hersh - Clear Pond RoadKristin Hershs new 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. Its 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

perfectly crafted

appearing on a number of "best of" lists by fans and critics alike

I wanted to get back into the craft of writing individual songs rather than being concerned with overarching concepts

The album‰۪s twelve songs were conceived and written during months of gruelling international touring and realised with producer Rodaidh McDonald in a Berlin studio in the height of summer 2013

I heard ten seconds of [Chopped & Screwed] and said

morphing from Karen Carpenter’s gentle reverence to Laura Nyro’s soulful grit

drifting like fog towards a sunset over the green undulations of North East England (from where she hails)

percussion and vibraphone to the mix

‰Û÷Good Sad Happy Bad‰۪ maintains the experimental-pop sensibility the band has brought to previous efforts

Including Lesser-Known Artists Like The Late Wolfgang Dauner Whose Career Proceeded And Outlived The Kosmische Movement While Consistently Informing And Outsmarting ‘Em Whenever They Got Stuck In Their Metronomic Ruts

nor stunted their growth as a musical ensemble

Ben's years of study have produced an operational agent that has not only built all the songs on Hexadic but is also a system anyone can use to restructure their ways of habit