'Undaunted by the departure of Tanya Donelly to form her own group, Belly, Kristen Hersh continued Throwing Muses as a trio on the band's fourth album, Red Heaven. The pared-down lineup gives rock songs like Furious and Backroad a more powerful, muscular sound and pop tracks like Dirty Water and Firepile a crisp, spacious feel. Overall, Red Heaven is the Muses' most rock-oriented album since House Tornado, especially on songs like the Bob Mould duet Dio, The Visit, and Rosetta Stone, but the band's pace ha...   [ read more ]

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Unissued until 1998, these tracks were recorded in 1967 and 1968, serving as the missing link between Hicks' days in the Charlatans and his solo career. Thirteen of the 20 songs were recorded by Hicks in October 1967 (when he was still in the Charlatans) as a publishing demo album, produced by Nick Reynolds of the Kingston Trio; it was intended both to shop Hicks compositions to other artists, and to serve as an example of what he could be capable of as a solo artist. The sound on this...   [ read more ]

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