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- Summary: Hersh's sixth solo album finds the Throwing Muses founder working with Howe Gelb (Giant Sand).
- Record Label: 4AD
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Singer-Songwriter
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It is simple, winding, hypnotic and beautiful, and it makes being human bearable for a while -- without in any way detracting from its essential tragedy.
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Entertainment WeeklyThere's something in Hersh's hushed, otherworldly hymns about dysfunction and off-center mental states that's deeply unsettling--in all the right ways. [14 Mar 2003, p.67]
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The Grotto is a deeply meditative, ambient recording that manages to seem more spare than 1999's Strange Angels, harking all the way back to Hips and Makers.
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Q MagazineAn exquisite addition to the canon. [Apr 2003, p.104]
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The Grotto isn't the type of record that will win Hersh many new admirers, but it will send longtime fans into fits of ecstasy.
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UncutIts 10 minimalist songs mine a vein of laconic broodiness. [Apr 2003, p.110]
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It doesn't take long for her aimless acoustic picking and postgraduate lyrical poetry to dissipate into a dull gray haze.
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