Moonlight Concessions/Clear Vinyl

Description

Moonlight Concessions is a return to basics, a return of Throwing Muses to their best off-kilter esotericism, thanks to Kristin’s sharp sketches and their abrasive musical arrangements. The album follows the acclaimed 2020 “Sun Racket,” a heady set filled with hard and tender stories, spiced with surreal images. Produced by Kristin Hersh at Steve Rizzo’s Stable Sound Studio in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 'Moonlight Concessions' is a collection of fragments of everyday life - think Raymond Carver’s Short Cuts, overheard conversations and told stories, all stitched together to illustrate the era as it slowly matures, fully spiced with the liveliness and vigor of the original Muses."Drugstore Drastic" is built on a fast acoustic rhythm with a guitar sub-melody, it’s a story unfolding over the social conscience of a blurry subconscious. "Summer Of Love" began as a bet with a guy for a dollar that revolved around the idea that the seasons do not change us. The album’s opening is baroque and haunting. The strings on "Libretto" counterbalance the acoustic mood, the hot and cold of nostalgia at the very heart of the album, a thematic engine filled with warmth in a haven lubricated by tequila. Written in the different environments of the southern Gulf Coast of Mexico and Southern California, « Moonlight Concessions » draws on the star clusters that light both, generating optimism and hope to varying degrees. Hersh explains: « In New Orleans, the stars are greenish-blue, because the city is below sea level and lit by the marshes. But on Moonlight Beach, they shine a glacial white. All these songs were written in these two luminous places, which helped our sonic technique find itself. »