THROWING MUSES-SUN RACKET

‘Sun Racket’ is the brand new album from legendary Boston trioThrowing 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 Kristen Hersh’s well-thumbed notebook of storylines.A ten-song opus of suitably wrought tales set against a wall of soundthat’s at once calm and ethereal before building into gloriouscacophonous crescendos.When Throwing Muses wrote their last album, they were shattered.Pieces were coming and going, elements repeating and charging thewhole. “It sounded beautiful jumping around like that”. Two-minutesongs reappearing as twisted instrumentals or another song’s bridge.They mimicked the effect live which kept them on their toes. Whateverwas 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