Kristen Hersh - SKY MOTEL

by Olivia Heller

      I don't know who pissed off Kristen Hersh but apparently she is over it. Her last two solo ventures were quite the couch trip but it seems now, her therapy sessions, if not completely done, have definitely taken a new tack.

     Track one, is reminiscent of a Bossa Nova beat. Something I have never heard from Kristen, or the Muses. Nice to know she still has tricks in her bag. Track five seems poppy and verging on radio friendly but still a keeper. Tracks seven and eight are brilliant. Both songs are three dimensional and multi-leveled. Husk is number eight on the CD. This tune sounds like familiar Hersh but has several starts and stops but never  really jumps off the edge which you expect it to. But that's Kristen, and that's O.K.

     For the most part this CD is much slower than the last two. Or perhaps it just seems that way due to the use of less jarring lyrics. This CD is different. It sways. The songs are a bit shorter. The lyrics are still pixilated however, which is why we love Kristen Hersh in the first place.      So run, don't walk, to your nearest independent music store and buy first, listen later, Kristen Hersh's Sky Motel.

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