Moonlight Concessions (Clear Vinyl) - By:Throwing Muses - Model Number: FIRELP650C

Description

˜Moonlight Concessions™ goes back to basics, a return for Throwing Muses to their esoteric off-kilter best courtesy of Kristin™s pin-sharp sketches and their suitably abrasive musical arrangements. The album follows their acclaimed ˜Sun Racket™ from 2020, a heady set filled with tough and tender tales spiked with surreal imagery.

Produced by Kristin Hersh at Steve Rizzo's Stable Sound Studio in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, ˜Moonlight Concessions™ is a collection of snippets from everyday life writ large - think Raymond Carver Short Cuts, overheard conversations, recounted happenings and telling one-liners, all sewed together to illustrate the times as they slowly mature, fully peppered with original Muses™ vim and vigour.

˜Drugstore Drastic™ is a kerbside soliloquy caught en route to a more alluring rendezvous. Built on a brisk acoustic strum with a guitar sub-melody underpinning proceedings, it™s an unfolding tale of social awareness from a blurred sub-conscious. ˜Summer Of Love™ began as a bet with a guy for a dollar that revolved around the idea that the seasons don™t change us. The album opener, it™s a haunting baroque overture, bowed and brooding.

˜Libretto™s strings offset the acoustic ambience, the hot and cold of longing at the very heart of it, a thematic driver filed with warmth in a safe haven lubricated by tequila. Written in the differing South Coast environs of The Gulf Of Mexico and Southern California, ˜Moonlight Concessions™ pulls from the star clusters that light both, generating optimism and hope in varying degrees. Hersh explains, In New Orleans the stars look greenish-blue, as it™s below sea level and swamp-lit. But on Moonlight Beach, they glow icy white. All these songs were written in these two glowy places, which helped our sonic technique find itself.

Label
Fire Records

Tracks & Genre

SOUTHBOUND